226 examples of salvages in sentences

Salvage impossible until ice breaks.

Sometimes they come in a large family all together, the females with their hymn-books, and the men with their different musical instruments,bits of pet salvage from the wrecks of cottage homes.

I saw two Beares, as white as anie milke, Lying together in a mightie cave, Of milde aspect, and haire as soft as silke, That salvage nature seemed not to have, Nor after greedie spoyle of blood to crave: 565 Two fairer beasts might not elswhere be found, Although the compast* world were sought around.

But all the rest, as borne of salvage brood, And having beene with acorns alwaies fed, 590 Can no whit savour this celestiall food, But with base thoughts are into blindnesse led, And kept from looking on the lightsome day:

Our woods are sylvan, and their inhabitants woodmen and rustics,that is, selvaggia, and the inhabitants are salvages.

[Law], restitution &c 790; redemption, salvage, trover

Price N. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages &c (remuneration) 973; value &c 812.1. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess^, sess^, tallage^, levy; abkari^; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin^; gabel^, gabelle^; gavel, octroi^, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment^, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage.

Discount N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio^, percentage; rebate, rebatement^; backwardation, contango^; salvage; tare and tret^. sale, bargain; half price; price war.

[payment for damage or debt] indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo. salvage, perquisite; vail &c (donation) 784

It has been interpreted to cover, among other things, the imposition of duties, the designation of ports of entry, the removal of obstructions in bays and rivers, the establishment and maintenance of buoys and lighthouses, and legislation governing pilotage, salvage from wrecks, maritime insurance, and the privileges of American and foreign ships.

What remains offers no salvage to friend, or enemy either.

Its site was a leveled gray mass, sodden, wrecked past all redemption; ruined beyond all thought of salvage.

"I'll allow salvage if you act promptly!"

"I have heard it said, by older sea-faring men than any in this ship," he continued, "that the devil has been known to send one of his mates aboard a lawful trader, to lead her astray among shoals and quicksands, in order that he might make a wreck, and get his share of the salvage, among the souls of the people.

of the timbers used for building purposes is promised, which means a salvage of about $40,000,000 annually as a result of strength tests of southern yellow pine and Douglas fir.

At nightfall Madeira was in full sight: the next morning at sun-rise we saw the islands called Salvages, and in the evening we descried the Pico of Teneriffe, on the island of that name.

Investment salvage in railroad reorganisation.

SEE Eliot, T. S. The dry salvages.

The dry salvages.

Investment salvage in railroad reorganisation.

SEE Eliot, T. S. The dry salvages.

The dry salvages.

We know that, in these salvages, the third of the value belongs to the rescuers, and, in this case, if the cargo was not damaged, the crew, as they say, would make "a good haul."

The captain of the Dolphin says he wants fifty dollars for it as salvage.

Buthere's the tough part of itit's going to cost fifty dollars for salvage to get her from the Dolphin's captain, the old shark!" "Phew!" whistled Jack Curtiss.

226 examples of  salvages  in sentences