129 examples of dockyard in sentences

He got together a meeting of dockyard workmen, and asked her to speak to them.

Then some designssome valuable battleship designsdisappeared from Devonport Dockyard.

[specific types of workplace: list], hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary^; armory; laboratory, lab, research institute; refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor; beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery^, usine^, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery^; furnace; vineyard; crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix.

For a minute I ran dodging wildly about, seeking a purview to the East, and finally ran up the dockyard, behind the storehouses to the Semaphore, and reached the top, panting for life.

Here in historical times was the dockyard of Rome; and here, when the poet was a child, Cato had landed with the spoils of Cyprus, as the nearest point of the river for the conveyance of that ill-gotten gain to the treasury under the Capitol.

It is, without exception, the most uninteresting town I ever set foot in; the only thing that gives it a semblance of vitality is its proximity to the dockyard, and the consequent appearance of officers in uniform; but in spite of this impression, which a two-days' residence confirmed me in, I was told, on good authority, that it is thriving and improving.

The only real object of interest at Norfolk is the dockyard, which of course I visited.

All waste wood not used in the yard is given away every Saturday to any old woman who will come and take it; and no searching of people employed in the dockyard is ever thought of.

The cattle employed in and for the dockyard have a most splendid airy stable, and are kept as neat and clean as if in a drawing-room.

We have built our deliverance ship in the dockyard of loving design, we have wrought her plates, riveted her bolts, fixed her masts, put in her boilers and engines, fitted her and supplied her with gear.

The burst was terrific and the reverberation was heard and the shock distinctly felt in the dockyard.

Professor Waterhouse states that at Boston there was a small-pox hospital on one side of a river, and opposite it, 1,500 yards away, was a dockyard, where, on a certain misty, foggy day, with light airs just moving in a direction from the hospital to the dockyard, ten men were working.

Professor Waterhouse states that at Boston there was a small-pox hospital on one side of a river, and opposite it, 1,500 yards away, was a dockyard, where, on a certain misty, foggy day, with light airs just moving in a direction from the hospital to the dockyard, ten men were working.

The Dockyard of Lisbon is scarcely as extensive as many of the largest of our private ship-builders on the banks of the Thames and the Avon. Funerals.

Some enterprising merchants of Port Jackson have established here a dockyard and a number of sawpits.

Nothing can more completely show the importance of the useful arts than a dockyard.

The people of the dockyard informed me that, although it was constantly crowded with natives, scarcely anything had ever been stolen, and all the chiefs in the neighbourhood took so great an interest in the work that any annoyance offered to those employed would immediately be revenged as a personal affront.

Every morning we were awakened by the sound of the hammer and saw, and they were much gratified by our walking down to their dockyard to observe the progress they made, and by giving our opinions of their work.

Unfortunately for me, I one day took away a handful of chips from their dockyard to make our fire burn clearly.

Mr. Maclear, of the Royal Observatory, and Captain Wauchope, of the flagship, had been measuring the difference of longitude between Simon's Bay dockyard and Cape Town Observatory, by flashing lights upon the summit of a mountain midway between those two places.

It is in justice due to say, that the boats were chiefly built by Mr. Johns, of Plymouth Dockyard.) TAKE LEAVE OF THE BEAGLE.

DEPTFORD (101), a town on the S. bank of the Thames, partly in Kent and partly in Surrey, now forming part of London; once with an extensive Government dockyard and arsenal, the site of it purchased by the Corporation of London as a market for foreign cattle; is now the central station for the Electric Light Company.

A strange hard red moon peered over the towers and chimneys of the distant dockyard.

Rat Island Rio de Janeiro and Simon's Bay : 12 : 36 : 50 : - : 61 32 52 E : - : North-west end of Dockyard, Simon's Bay : 34 11 28 S : - : -. 1847 :

In the dockyard near the Observation spot of Erebus and Terror, by Fox's Needle A, with index error applied : 53 40 0 S. TONNELIER'S ISLAND, PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS.

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