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pinnace example sentences
pinnace
1. Blessed be her Cries! They prove at least that she is still alive! The Babe bobs upon the Water before the fat, floating Moon Face of her lunatick Nurse, who seems near-dead from the Fall; and yet Belinda lives! Prue is her Raft, her Yawl, her Pinnace, her Pilot, her Wherry! Horatio swims to her with what manly and heroick Resolution I cannot e’en say, snatches the Babe, and whilst she screams in his Arms, he swims alongside our Boat
2. " He beheld his old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he
3. he saith that being in distresse for want of victuals this examinate sent his brother and twenty more persons in a small pinnace of 7 or 8 tonnes called the Le Loania833 and one hundred coates or gownes to a place called Gaspey and gave his brother order to land twentie of them there, whereof as he remembreth 2 were weomen and 4 children, and gave them each of them 2 Coates of beaver to buy victualls of the Savages, and with the rest to saile to France to give notice of their distresse in the said forte ac aliter nescit