He met Graves at Placentia on 14th August, and landed all the marines he could, and then continued his cruise.

You can't fool a marine.

HENDERSON, KATHRYN D. Augustus helps the marines.

" "I will send fifty marines with you.

"Who is this Mr. Darrin?" asked the marine, as the pair strolled away.

I am sure I could not dress the marines for a man-of-war: they require an immense deal of care in fitting their clothes: loose trousers and check shirts are easy to make, but tight jackets and trousers, with all the other et ceteras required to dress a marine, would be more than I should like to undertake, as I feel convinced I could not do it to the admiral's satisfaction.

This has heretofore been so far neglected, as regards the marine, that not long before I arrived the commander of a French ship of war was much chagrined, on firing a salute as he passed the battery at New York, to find that his courtesy was not returned in the customary way.

These circumstances reacted powerfully upon the material development of England, multiplying manifold the dimensions of her foreign trade, increasing proportionately her commercial marine, and giving her in the eighteenth century the dominion over the seas.

" Captain Martin went to the door and stepped out into the main office, facing the marines.

"You might as well ask me who got the marines out just in the nick of time.

Lighthouses are necessary to guide the navy, but they also serve to guide the merchant marine and to aid industry.

The lads heard the marines, as they supposed the newcomers to be, pass around an angle of the old house and stand for an instant talking in the doorway to which they had been directed by the voice of the man on the inside.

Every advance of this hesitating marine over the Mediterranean had represented greater expenditure of audacity and energy than the discovery of America or the first voyage around the world....

"I cannot say," answered the school-master, "that my researches into the geographical distribution of fogs have resulted" "As to fogs," interrupted the marine, "you can't get rid of them, you know.

Instead of following the literary or military traditions of his family, he joined the English merchant marine.

A second knocked two marines into a bloody palpitating mash.

"We'll leave the marines within call and go up to this temporary signal station and see what about it.

"Well, of all the game fights!" muttered the marine.

Rome, as Mommsen tells us, 'was from the first a maritime city and, in the period of its vigour, never was so foolish or so untrue to its ancient traditions as wholly to neglect its war marine and to desire to be a mere continental power.'

Cook attempted to give one of the chiefs a charge of small shot, but his gun missed fire, and he was obliged, very reluctantly, to order the marines to fire, with the result that several of the natives were wounded.

In the waist I passed the marines, drawn up in military array, with their officer as attentive to dressing them in line as if the victory depended on its accuracy.

Caius Laelius, admiral of the fleet, patronized the marines, and Marcus Sempronius Tuditanus, the legionary troops.

but we are not satisfied with persecuting America, though the mischief has recoiled on ourselves; nor France with wounding us, though with little other cause for exultation, and with signal mischief to her own trade, and with heavy loss of seamen; not to mention how her armies are shrunk to raise her marine, a sacrifice she will one day rue, when the disciplined hosts of Goths and Huns begin to cast an eye southward.

The application of steam to the purposes of naval warfare cogently recommends an extensive steam marine as important in estimating the defenses of the country.

A comprehensive measure, with the object of 'rescuing their marine from its condition of impotence,' was taken by the Romans in the year 267 B.C.