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voyages

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n. (plural of voyage English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: voyage )

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Contained in Hart Crane 's first collection of poems, White Buildings (1926), "Voyages" was composed across six years (1921–1926), with sections published as early as 1923. Containing one of Crane's most famous lyrics, "Voyages: II," this love-cycle of ...

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At intervals, he would refer to piles of old log-books beside him, wherein were set down the seasons and places in which, on various former voyages of various ships, sperm whales had been captured or seen.

Boats whose owners would make as many voyages as they could to maximise their profits, and which could carry perishable goods a great distance.

I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.

Besides, my boy, he has a wife--not three voyages wedded--a sweet, resigned girl.

All that is made such a flourish of in the old South Sea Voyages, those things were but the life-time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers.

Leviathans, in small pods, were encountered much oftener than at present, and, in consequence, the voyages were not so prolonged, and were also much more remunerative.

That much had been amply demonstrated long before any manned voyages were undertaken.

Also, I said to myself that while there were many boats and many voyages, I had but one pair of hands and one set of toe-nails.

Porps became docile automatically in fresh water, a fact first observed at Bowock when one of them was driven hither from the open sea for an entirely different purpose, and between voyages they had to be carefully retained.

Flapper broke the water into glowing ripples as she fed on drifting weed and occasional fish, he stared achingly at the sky wherever it was clear of cloud and wondered about voyages across space.

But we unite in despising those who spout nonsense about the nature of other planets totally at odds with scientific reality, those who claim that they can make mental voyages to Swiftyouth and Sunbride and indeed to the planets of other stars!

In any case, those of us who have discovered how to make mental voyages have chosen the path that avoids all such perils.

Much more important was the fact that by dark and by bright other of his disciples came to visit, and greeted her as one saved for the cause of truth, and sat by her telling wondrous stories about their mental voyages to the planets.

People of the present day, who are so well supplied with information about the most distant parts of the earth, and have all our modern means of communication at their command, find it difficult to understand the intrepid courage that is implied by the voyages of these men.

And yet even to-day we hear people ask in surprise: What is the use of these voyages of exploration?