Frigate in example sentence

One after another, reports arrived that would profoundly affect public opinion: new observations taken by the transatlantic liner Pereire, the Inman line's Etna running afoul of the monster, an official report drawn up by officers on the French frigate Normandy, dead-earnest reckonings obtained by the general staff of Commodore Fitz-James aboard the Lord Clyde.

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The great poet Emily Dickinson once said, "There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away."

Can you explain how my client could have known the names of officers on a frigate that joined the Navy only in 2005?

Sinking the Sunshine PolicyLast week's naval battle between North and South Korean warships sank more than a South Korean frigate.

But the reality is starker: the intrusions by Chinese aircraft into Filipino airspace in May;Chinese patrol boats cruising in March in the Recto (Reed) Bank, 85 miles west of the Filipino island of Palawan; and, most serious of all, a Chinese missile frigate firing at Filipino fishing boats in February near Palawan’s Quirino atoll.

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