What is "seafaring"

Usage examples of "seafaring".

Elysia thought, remembering all the times when she had been away from home on a commission and Palmyre had made his supper, tucked him up in bed, and told him stories of sea monsters and mermaids that she had learned from her seafaring father.

All persons calling themselves Schollers going about begging, all Seafaring men pretending losses of their Shippes or goods on the sea going about the Country begging, all idle persons going about in any Country either begging or using any subtile crafte or unlawful Games .

He was, like most of the crew, a Bugis from the neighboring island of Sulawesi, descendant of the notorious seafaring people whose piratical exploits so impressed their European prey that it was said their very name entered the language to frighten naughty children in the dark windy English night -- be good or the boogeyman will get you.

As neutrals, the Dutch, for whom commerce was the blood in their veins and seafaring as ocean navigators their primary practice, became the essential providers, and St.

The bold seafaring men of Portugal sought to reach insular regions supposed to be cast far away into the ocean, whilst Columbus endeavoured to arrive at China and Japan.

For never yet before had they seen seafaring ships, neither the Scythians mingled with the Thracians, nor the Sigynni, nor yet the Graucenii, nor the Sindi that now inhabit the vast desert plain of Laurium.

To the west lay Hango and Turku, ancient seafaring towns that had both seen invaders come and go-Russians, Swedes and Germans.

Certainly, when he has once managed to get a seafaring outfit, he will be safe from any fear of detection as one of the terrible Vendean insurgents.

Caesar, indeed, records that, about a century earlier, the Veneti, the seafaring tribe of the French Atlantic coast, used sails of heavy leather.

This man told Vertue that Rembrandt was living in Hull, painting portraits of seafaring folk and he even described one of the portraits.

The stewards looked English, however, in conformity to what seems the ideal of every kind of foreign seafaring people, and that went a good way toward making them intelligible.

In the seventeenth century he would have worn huge flintlock pistols stuck into a wide leather belt, and been something in the seafaring line.

But we remembered the seafaring bowmen of the days of our glory--it is the memory of these which we hurl upon our enemies.

As to smuggling, and the like of that, why, I'm a seafaring man, and I suppose all callings have their weak spots.

Captaining the Defiant, even when we take her out on a routine maintenance spin to see if her parts are in working order, is like I imagine captaining an old seafaring vessel would have been.