1819 examples of pilots in sentences

It was to Italy, the home of commerce, that they turned for their captains and their pilots.

Our pilots often flew over the northern ridge, both to observe and to bomb, but the enemy seldom crossed the southern ridge.

He himself, though his ship was carried away by the tempest, yet, by the great pains and skill of the sailors and pilots, resisted it and reached the land, with great toil to the rowers, and beyond everyone's expectation; for the rest of the fleet was overpowered by the gale and scattered.

There the pilots tell Of sixteen sail to the southward!

In the chapter on Disposicion, instead of discussing the arrangement of a speech, Hawes devotes most of his space to praise of the rhetoricians because they turned the guidance of the drifting barge, the world, over to competent pilots, the kings.

The precision, exactitude and regularity of the news brought in by its members are evidence of their perfect organization and also of the perfect training of the pilots and the observers.

FIVE GERMAN PILOTS SHOT "The constant object of our aviators has been to effect an accurate location of the enemy's forces and, incidentally, since the operations cover so large an area, of our own units.

This has been so far successful that in five cases German pilots or observers have been shot while in the air and their machines brought to ground.

Phinuit enquired; and added, as Monk nodded and cast about for the visored white cap of his office: "Didn't know pilots were such early birds.

It might have been a hawk, but it was not; it was an airplanethe Handley-Page, with the two young pilots and the Major on board.

Trying the lead on Thursday the 25th of April, they found twenty-five fathom; and the least water they had all that day was twenty fathom, on which account the pilots concluded they were on the shoals of the Rio Grande.

Not that the Moorish pilots from Mozambique were here dismissed, as the text of Lichefild's translation seems to insinuate.

This deceived the pilots as a sign of good weather, wherefore they still carried sail:

27°S. but the pilots did not know the coast, and the general would not allow any one to go on shore.

I beg leave to observe that not a man in the squadron imagined the four sail, when we saw them, were the enemy; and the pilots were of opinion that they must have had the wind much stronger than with us to overcome the easterly swell in the harbour's mouth.

The Aëroplane Boys; or, The Young Pilots First Air Voyage 2.

The native pilots are remarkably skillful navigators, and seem to know by instinct how the shoals shift.

They are from half a mile to nine miles long each, and require regular pilots.

It was a miracle that the pilot ever got her up into the pilot-house; but pilots have a lonely time, and do not hesitate even at miracles when there is a chance for company.

The best of pilots, boy, they have on board.

One of our pilots is safe.

Donald Duck pilots a jet plane.

Changing pilots, by Ruby M. Ayres.

© 13Jun44; A181416. 12Aug71; R510384. MASON, FRANK W. Pilots, man your planes!

Smeet'Il Capitano Giac SmeetI have long suspected my English master of ignorance, for he was merely one of our Leghorn pilots, who has sailed in a bastimento de guerra of your countryhe called your honorable name 'Smees,' Signore.

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