Sentences with phrase «of galleons»

Amazon has scored a major deal with J.K. Rowling that probably cost a truckload of Galleons to add all seven Harry Potter ebooks to the Kindle Owners» Lending Library starting on June 19th.

Now that Universal Studios has introduced The Wizarding World of Harry Potter around the globe (Orlando / Hollywood / Osaka), you can get a sip for yourself — assuming you don't blow all of your galleons on that replica Hermione wand in Ollivanders.

VILLAS OF THE GALLEON boasts luxurious Caribbean - style condominiums that are centrally located on the...

VILLAS OF THE GALLEON boasts luxurious Caribbean - style condominiums that are centrally located on the world famous Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman.

I'm standing on the deck of our galleon with my spy glass trained on a line of ships chasing or Galleon.

Maybe you dream of diving the wreckage of a galleon or quitting your job and starting your own company.

Inside it's jam packed with more fascinating artefacts, including an exquisitely ornate clock in the shape of a galleon, designed to fire its cannons and roll across the table on the hour.

Storms also have a tendency to damage your ship in places you might not normally spot, like on the mid-deck of the galleon, or behind the navigation map of the sloop.

Not exact matches

He reads radiant descriptions of sunsets in the poets where the sun rides the western sea like a «golden galleon» or

Then in 1938 one of them — a New Yorker who, possibly because of revenue collectors, preferred to be known as plain «Jack» — was more convincing: McKee was guaranteed one thousand dollars to dive for silver bars hidden in pitch on a Spanish galleon.

They detach her 200 - pound suit from its restraints and guide her down to a life - size replica of a portion of the International Space Station that hulks on the pool's floor like a sunken galleon.

Synopsis: Feisty Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) inherits her late buccaneer father's galleon and one - third of a map to buried treasure located on Cutthroat Islan... [MORE]

Try taking on a 4 - man galleon all my yourself, until you can intimidate that kind of crew all alone then you haven't even started to know how to play this game.

Synopsis: Feisty Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) inherits her late buccaneer father's galleon and one - third of a map to buried treasure located on Cutthroat Island.

It also features one of the best sailing simulations ever created in a game, with a galleon requiring four friends working together to successfully navigate through choppy waters or to battle a rival crew.

Variety reports that the project is moving forward with production set to kick off in September in Cape Town, South Africa with an approximate $ 60 million budget which aims to render this story which will see giant galleons sailing on waves of sand as they fight giant creatures that can get as big as a city block.

In Donkey Kong Country's Game Boy counterpart, Donkey Kong Land, the galleon is part of an area called Gangplank Galleon Ahoy!.

The story is described by DreamWorks» CEO Stacey Snider as «a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure.

Affecting British civility, Barbossa drives his crew to follow in the wake of Blackbeard's boat, along with a trio of Spanish galleons.

Of course, Harry's wishes for an uneventful school year are almost immediately shattered when he is unexpectedly chosen, along with fellow student Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson), as Hogwarts» representative in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, which awards whoever completes three magical tasks the most skillfully with a thousand - galleon purse and the admiration of the international wizard communitOf course, Harry's wishes for an uneventful school year are almost immediately shattered when he is unexpectedly chosen, along with fellow student Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson), as Hogwarts» representative in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, which awards whoever completes three magical tasks the most skillfully with a thousand - galleon purse and the admiration of the international wizard communitof the international wizard community.

There's another sequence in which a pirate ship, a 16th - century galleon, engages in midair with a trio of British Hawker Hurricanes (I think) defending Mother England against the German blitz before breaking through the clouds for a brief, weightless moment.

But when a local murder is linked to the sunken treasure of a lost Spanish galleon, he's drawn into the investigation by an idealistic deputy and pitted against the powerful town patriarch, outside criminal agents and his own father.

If it weren't for the events I'm about to describe, I might have gone on not thinking about Daniel Varsky, or very rarely, though I was still in possession of his bookshelves, his desk, and the trunk of a Spanish galleon or the salvage of an accident on the high seas, quaintly used as a coffee table.

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

Elizabethan galleons were frail and entirely dependent on the whim of the winds and the swirl of the currents.

They little imagined that their fragile galleons would be battered by monstrous icebergs and translucent cliffs of ice.

Many stories tell of shipwrecked galleons and the strange tailless cats that swam to the Isle of Man and established a colony there.

An English Chart dated 1792 states that some years earlier a Spanish galleon named «Santa Yaga was lost off the Three Brothers, which are several small keys off the northeastern tip of Ambergris Key»

This was an ideal location to plunder the Spanish Galleons in the Bay of Honduras and the British Crown turned a blind eye to his operations.

1785 Spanish galleon lost on the northeastern tip of Turneffe carrying $ 800,000 in specie (unverified reports indicate the remains of an old ship in this area).

San Juan is a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern commercial center, but also a city with a long and storied history dating back to the days of Spanish treasure galleons and the real pirates of the Caribbean.

This is your opportunity to search for the remains of a Spanish galleon from the 1600s.

Beginning Saturday, July 9, 2011, the public can watch as the Maritime Museum of San Diego builds a replica of the 16th century Spanish galleon, the San Salvador.

The star of the show here is the on - site waterpark — there's four outdoor swimming pools, including a shallow pool for little ones, with slides, games, a mushroom shower and even a pirate galleon.

We offer tours with open bars, so that adults can enjoy their grog while treading the decks of our replica pirate galleon.

On the second floor, a cool attraction awaits those looking for an adrenalin kick: Pirate Adventure Horror House - which reconstitutes an old pirate's galleon haunted by the evil spirit of its previous occupants.

The Bahamas» waters are amazingly clear with spectacular coral reefs, historic shipwrecks, sunken galleons, blue holes, intricate underwater cave systems, caverns and tunnels; all that offer SCUBA divers a range of excitement and dive adventures.

Built in Spain, the galleons are 93 ft in length and each have a capacity of 285 passengers.

Join the friendly crew of the Columbus, a replica Spanish galleon, for an entertaining dinner cruise to mysterious Nichupte Lagoon.

With a beautiful art style, co-operative quests to loot and build your galleon as well as an online multiplayer battle arena where up to 60 of you and your mateys can battle it out, this is as close to a fully featured working version of PUBG you'll experience this year!

The game has you and your crew of hooligans sailing in either a small sloop, or the larger four crew galleon ship.

These full - on galleons, but rather than sailing on the ocean waves, they sail through waves of sand.

For the first time, players will be able to command real - time 3D naval sea battles with individual ships and large fleets of 18th century galleons.

Players should expect tons of quests, targets and buildings to climb, but best of all, it furnishes them with their own galleon, The Jackdaw.

That means that players can now set crew sessions as private, invite - only affairs before entering a game (which, interestingly, now means you're able to solo a galleon if you fancy the challenge), and can enjoy a plentiful line - up of other improvements and bug fixes, all of which are detailed in the latest patch notes.

Fighter planes and battleships, knights, cannons, American and Mexican soldiers, Greek warships and Tudor galleons, crenelated forts and Texan garrisons dominate the imagery, with the exception of a single canvas depicting an American pastoral idyll: Native American Buffalo Clan.

In these large - scale and visually surprising compositions, the artist fuses a wealth of anachronistic elements into a unified whole, as in the World War I biplane and Spanish galleon that co-exist in Medieval Divided Self, or he evokes pivotal battles from vastly different epochs of British and American history, such as Agincourt and the Battle of the Alamo.

Neel's famous naked self - portrait (1980) depicts the artist in old age, perched on a blue and white striped sofa surrounded by blocks of vital color — green, yellow, blue — calm and fearless in herself, staring at the viewer through slightly skewed glasses (her only attire), mouth firmly downturned and cheeks ruddy above the deliquescence of her aged body, a sinking galleon of pale flesh.

Often, these ideas are amalgamated in his extraordinary bronze sculptures — as if a magnetic centrifugal force has pulled together busts of Thatcher, policeman's helmets, Britannia, galleons and other maritime bric - a-brac.

Her photos depict details from Jacopo de» Barbari's extraordinary woodblock Bird's Eye View of Venice (circa 1500), which features canals, streets, galleons among the waves — even zephyrs.