Citations:adventures
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English citations of adventures
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- 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
- Two more ships, being driven from their anchors, were run out of the Roads to sea, at all adventures, and that with not a mast standing.
- It was my great misfortune that in all these adventures I did not ship myself as a sailor; when, though I might indeed have worked a little harder than ordinary, yet at the same time I should have learnt the duty and office of a fore-mast man, and in time might have qualified myself for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a master.
- As I have troubled you with none of my sea journals, so I shall trouble you now with none of my land journals; but some adventures that happened to us in this tedious and difficult journey I must not omit.
- 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
- Often, adventures which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted unworthy of being set down in the ship's common log.
- Now, the Captain D'Wolf here alluded to as commanding the ship in question, is a New Englander, who, after a long life of unusual adventures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village of Dorchester near Boston.