Sentences with phrase «of seafaring»

The narrow dining nook is a natural gathering space, and further pulls in the homeowner's love of seafaring motifs.

While that charm is found in every nook and cranny of this seafaring adventure, it is buried in mundane tasks and a world that feels empty.

This portrait shows «Black Joe» supported by crutches and wearing a model of the seafaring military vessel Nelson perched on his cap.

Thanks to the game's seemingly infinite amount of seafaring and distinctly familiar color palette, Salt allowed me to relive those joys a hundred-fold.

Explore towns rife with corruption and sail to untamed isles, home to clans of seafaring warriors.

To celebrate, Ubisoft has released a launch trailer full of seafaring goodness and an infectious beat that can not be contained:

For those who are staying closer to Marina Cabo San Lucas, plenty of seafaring adventure awaits.

This coincided with the period when the city was ruled by the Itzae, a group of seafaring warrior traders or Putun from Chontal Maya territory in Tabasco and Campeche who had political and commercial ties with central Mexican cultures.

After a short climb back to undulating farmland, stop in at the historic Cape Otway Lighthouse (fees apply) for tales of the seafaring history of this dangerous stretch of coastline.

This Hermitage was built to commemorate the thanksgiving of the seafaring folk for the arrival by sea of an image of Mary of Magdalene.

After a day of seafaring, come back to a comfortable

Highly unlikely, although Maine State library records of that period do show the existence of a seafaring man named Coon, the captain of a whaler.

a lot of seafaring terms and fun details for folks who enjoy being on board a ship / boat.

If you're not sure, the definitions of the seafaring expressions below - all used in The Cat's Table - might help you navigate the book.

Soman's illustrations, showcasing all the blues and teals of a seafaring journey, are at turns majestic (the churning waters of a storm at sea) and laugh - out - loud funny (searching for seashells on a mountaintop, as a disgruntled ram humors them).

With two or three miles of water separating them from mainland Italy, early Venetian settlers were safe from enemies who had no knowledge of seafaring.

The new bridge increased roadway capacity, improved safety, reduced the frequency and cost of major bridge maintenance, and increased the vertical and horizontal navigational clearances to accommodate the current needs of seafaring vessels on the river, including permitting modern cargo vessel passage to the Port of Charleston, the second largest container cargo port on the East Coast.

Considering death to be an easy out for his enemies, Edmond Dantes meticulously plots a painful revenge for each of them with the aid of his assistant Jacopo (Luis Guzman) and a band of seafaring smugglers

Considering death to be an easy out for his enemies, he meticulously plots a painful revenge for each of them with the aid of his assistant Jacopo (Luis Guzman) and a band of seafaring smugglers.

In the wake of these upheavals, Sid reunites with his cantankerous Granny, and the herd encounters a ragtag menagerie of seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home.

As if you couldn't tell from the title, it's about the wacky adventures of a group of seafaring pirates circa 1837.

The membership base of seafaring folk includes a diverse mix of backgrounds, all united by common interests.

The solution, Marcus says, isn't some fleet of seafaring garbage trucks.

This suggests there was a coastal migration route that required some kind of seafaring facility, says Silvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, who investigates early human footprints in the Americas.

Still, many researchers want more evidence of seafaring.

Now she lies in the Hudson River like a horizontal skyscraper, three levels of her 18 decks filled with exhibits about military technology, history, and the science of seafaring and flight.

Crete was suddenly colonized with domestic animals in 6000 B.C., so there must have been rafts or some kind of seafaring craft at that time.

«This finding provides evidence of the seafaring people who inhabited this area during the tail end of the last major ice age.»

In the wake of these upheavals, Sid reunites with his cantankerous Granny, and the herd encounters a ragtag menagerie of seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home.

You can stroll along the lovely, flag - stoned streets of this seafaring town, visit the beautifully refurbished Pier Arts Centre with exhibitions by local and international artists, and / or explore the craft shops selling local knitwear, pottery and artwork.

Not exact matches

So it's natural that one of the world's greatest seafaring tongues, Portuguese, has a word for missing your home, your love, and your life that no word in English can touch: Saudade.

Ancient seafaring goes back thousands of years before that with the Greeks (3000 BC), the Mycenaeans (2000 BC, the Minoans (2500 BC, the Phoenicians (1500 BC) and many others in the area and in other places around the Earth.

Noah could NOT have made a sea - worthy vessel of that size given his tools, materials and seafaring technology of his day.

I was in my 40s, lying in bed with one of Patrick O'Brian's great seafaring adventure novels.

At the risk of getting way off - topic, some in - depth study of ancient Chinese seafaring would be of interest (at least to me.)

So it happened that he became one of more than 20 nationally known sports stars to appear in the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Festival at Jordan Marsh - Miami, a two - year - old department store which, with its own swimming pool and a marina for seafaring customers to park their yachts, is a showcase of modern retailing.

Find everything needed to build fairy homes, add - to or play in a teepee made of black locust and grapevine branches, master the stump jump, and let your seafaring fantasies unfold in a grounded sunken rowboat.

For seafarers living in India or the Philippines — the country that provides 25 % of the world's seafaring labour — the potential earnings level provides a standard of living in their home countries that is well in excess of what they could expect to achieve by taking employment ashore in those countries.

He marveled at the expense and wondered whether a smaller, seafaring version of Greenbird could gather ocean data more cheaply.

«It seems coherent for us to think that in south - east Asia and Australia, humans had seafaring capabilities by 60,000 to 70,000 years ago,» says expedition member Florent Detroit of the National Museum for Natural History in Paris, France.

Some of the site's most evocative evidence for the ancient Egyptians» seafaring prowess is concealed behind a modern steel door set into a cliff just 700 feet or so from the Red Sea shore.

These seafaring sea slugs live on floating islands of debris, eating gooseneck barnacles and drifting with the currents.

The cave's entrance was reinforced with old ship timbers and reused stone anchors, the first conclusive evidence of large - scale Egyptian seafaring ever discovered.

On May 31, 2009, Nereus proved its seafaring mettle and plunged to a depth of 6.8 miles in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.

Although researchers have studied scores of Roman ships, finding a much older Minoan wreck «would add 100 % new knowledge», says Shelley Wachsmann, an expert in ancient seafaring at Texas A&M University in College Station.

In January of 2012 the Costa Concordia, the largest luxury liner built in Italy, manufactured at the Fincantieri shipyards in the ancient seafaring city of Genoa to the highest standards of safety specified by law, struck a reef in the Mediterranean, and partially capsized, killing dozens of people.

Their seafaring abilities were still celebrated 1,000 years later by Greek historian Thucydides, who credited the Minoans with building the world's first navy and ridding the seas of pirates.

The Phoenician's seafaring and ship building skills put them in the top ranks of Mediterranean traders and colonizers beginning in the Bronze Age.

Spiers speculates that the high scores among Nordic nations may be a result of selection for good navigation abilities in their Viking and seafaring pasts.

«I think water crossing goes with modern language and with modern art,» says Geoff Irwin, an expert on ancient seafaring at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.