How To Use barque In A Sentence
- One was a scene of the Embankment at night, the other a nocturne, Tower Bridge by moonlight, a barquentine drifting downriver. A SEASON IN HELL
- Typically there are wooden sailing barques with rather basic facilities.
- On 29 April 1834, caught in the grips of west-sou-wester gale, the barque Harriet washed up on a beach not far from Rahotu.
- 'I delivered your letter this evening and had a long conference with both the Ministers: Mr. Choiseul assured me upon his word of honour that Your R.H. should be inform'd in time before the departure of Mr. de Gouillon, {309a} so that you might go with that embarquement if you thought proper, upon which I interrupted him and told him if they were destined for the Kingdom of Ireland that it would be to no manner of purpose, for I was certain you would not go, and that you had at all times expressly ordered me to tell them so; he continued his conversation and said you should be equally informed when the P. of S. {309b} embarked. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
- On 13 August 1840 the barque London left Plymouth with Frederic, his wife Margaret, and their three children on board.
- The barked torrent of words flowed over me: a cataract of verbiage with unknown phrases sticking up like sharp rocks to confound the frail barque of my self-confidence and perhaps overwhelm it.
- Like a sailing barque stuck fast in the Doldrums, I lurch slowly in the swell, holding my breath and waiting for a wind to fill the sails.
- If this journey included a trip on the Nile, the golden barque was put on a papyriform transport boat and taken to its destination.
- Her rig is barquentine with fore and aft sails on all except the forward most mast which has 3 square sails.
- Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
