Before long the searchlight discovered some distance away a schooner with all sails set, apparently the same vessel which had been noticed earlier in the evening.
For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
I have spent the whole day, said he, over Lloyd's registers and files of the old papers, following the future career of every vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in '83.
I think that those seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the writer.
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be. Leonardo DiCaprio
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French. Fritz Sauckel
Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation. James Lind
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. Walter Lippmann
