323 examples of hawke in sentences

Her master was Capt. E. J. Smith, a veteran of more than thirty years' able and faithful service in the company's ships, whose only mishap had occurred when the giant Olympic, under his command, collided with the British cruiser Hawke in the Solent last September.

Americain Germany;we took(counting on his fingers)we took Quebecyes, Lord Gosford lost a cousin there; and we took all the Canadas; and we took their fleets: there was a young man killed in the battle between Hawke and Conflans, who was much attached to Lady Julianapoor soul!

Something must be done Both to the Henne and Chicken: haste you therefore To sad Onaelia; tell her I'm resolv'd To give my new Hawke bells and let her flye; My Queene I'm weary of and her will marry.

The nearest approach to it was when Hawke destroyed the French fleet in Quiberon Bay.

The French fleet was running away, and Hawke's achievement was that, in spite of the difficulties of weather on an extremely dangerous coast, he was able to consummate its destruction.

Also, in 1759, Lord (then Sir Edward) Hawke reported: 'Our daily employment is condemning the beer from Plymouth.'

It is said that Sir Edward Hawke, having in his mind the disastrous result of giving Halley the command of a King's ship in 1698, when a serious mutiny occurred, positively refused to sign such a commission, saying that he would "rather cut off his right hand than permit any one but a King's officer to command one of the ships of His Majesty's Navy.

The initials signify Edward Hawke, Charles Townshend, and Lord Charles Spencer.

At Hawke's Bay, whilst trading was going on, a large war canoe came up, and the occupants received some presents.

Broken Bay, named from the number of small islands therein, was passed, and the voyage was rendered very slow by the light northerly winds, and passing Cape Hawke, he found the set of the current had placed him twelve miles in advance, when reckoned by the log, of his real position given by observation.

See Timepieces. Hawke, Lord.

Prince, by your leave I'le have a Sursingle, And Male you like a Hawke.

A low, sandy projection of the coast was named after Edward Hawke Locker, Esquire.

Desperate, reckless, and lawless, they were filled with the spirit of adventure, and were the forerunners of the men that Hawke, Nelson, and Dundonald led to victory.

According to one account, he served in Hawke's ship, but, wherever his training was received, it had made him a first-rate seaman.

"Compell the hawke to sit, that is unmanned, Or make the hound, untaught, to draw the deere, Or bring the free, against his will, in band, Or move the sad, a pleasant tale to heere, Your time is lost, and you no whit the neere!

The adventures of Hawke Travis; episodes in the life of a gunman.

A portrait of Bascom Hawke.

A portrait of Bascom Hawke.

The expedition was ready, there was nothing to wait for save the moment to go out of port, but Admiral Hawke was cruising before Brest; it was only in the month of November, 1759, that the marquis of Conflans, who commanded the fleet, could put to sea with twenty-one vessels.

There is Hawke in the bay weathering this winter, after conquering in a storm.

Frederick Locker was born in 1821, in Greenwich Hospital, where Edward Hawke Locker was Civil Commissioner.

BELLE-ISLE (60), a fortified island on the W. coast of France, near which Sir Edward Hawke gained a brilliant naval victory over the French, under M. de Conflans, in 1759.

May our commanders have the eye of a Hawke and the heart of a Wolfe.

The late Lord Hawke, who told me that he had long felt for the sufferings of the injured Africans, desired to be permitted to take his share of the distribution among members of the House of Lords, and Dr. Porteus, now bishop of London, became another coadjutor in the same work.

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