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Vessel in sentence

537 examples of Vessel in a sentence

Since fate has brought you here, you'll stay aboard my vessel.
"Go ahead, sir.""You said we'd be free aboard your vessel?""Completely."
But no solemn promises bind us to the commander of this vessel."
Let me tell you, professor, you won't regret the time you spend aboard my vessel.
May I learn--""Professor Aronnax," Captain Nemo answered me, "I've said you'd be free aboard my vessel, so no part of the Nautilus is off-limits to you.
He fell silent for some moments, then he said:"There's a powerful, obedient, swift, and effortless force that can be bent to any use and which reigns supreme aboard my vessel.
Then a door opened into the galley, 3 meters long and located between the vessel's huge storage lockers.
As for me, whom fate had just brought aboard his vessel, whose life he had held in the balance: he had received me coolly but hospitably.
In essence, a whaling vessel had reported that some medals and a Cross of St. Louis had been found in the hands of savages in the Louisiade Islands and New Caledonia.
So Captain Dumont d'Urville had put to sea in command of a vessel named after the Astrolabe, and just two months after Dillon had left Vanikoro, Dumont d'Urville dropped anchor before Hobart.
The craft that Cook was aboard charged into some coral rock, and if his vessel didn't go down, it was thanks to the circumstance that a piece of coral broke off in the collision and plugged the very hole it had made in the hull.
"And I don't think," the Canadian said, "that your Nemo would object to us stashing a cargo of coconuts aboard his vessel?"
"Oh really?""Yes, captain, although since I've been aboard your vessel, I should have formed the habit of not being amazed by anything!"
This was the remora, which travels attached to the bellies of sharks; as the ancients tell it, when these little fish cling to the undersides of a ship, they can bring it to a halt, and by so impeding Mark Antony's vessel during the Battle of Actium, one of them facilitated the victory of Augustus Caesar.
One day we were chased by the longboats of a whaling vessel, which undoubtedly viewed us as some enormous baleen whale of great value.
We were to ask Captain Nemo this question straight out: did the captain mean to keep us on board his vessel permanently?
For seven months we've been aboard your vessel, and I ask you today, in the name of my companions as well as myself, if you intend to keep us here forever."
Had he seen that vessel change course and seemingly head toward us?
He can rely on me to tow him to that vessel, if he's agreeable to going with our friend Ned."
I went below just as another projectile scraped the Nautilus's hull, and I heard the captain exclaim:"Shoot, you demented vessel!
The Nautilus swiftly retreated, putting us outside the range of the vessel's shells.
My companions and I had decided to escape as soon as the vessel came close enough for us to be heard--or seen, because the moon would wax full in three days and was shining brightly.
His eyes never left that vessel.
The vessel was two miles off.
The vessel lay a mile and a half off, and with the first glimmers of daylight, it resumed its cannonade.
Carried away with its driving power, the Nautilus had passed through the vessel's mass like a sailmaker's needle through canvas!
The enormous vessel settled slowly.
My nerves calmed a little, but with my brain so aroused, I did a swift review of my whole existence aboard the Nautilus, every pleasant or unpleasant incident that had crossed my path since I went overboard from the Abraham Lincoln: the underwater hunting trip, the Torres Strait, our running aground, the savages of Papua, the coral cemetery, the Suez passageway, the island of Santorini, the Cretan diver, the Bay of Vigo, Atlantis, the Ice Bank, the South Pole, our imprisonment in the ice, the battle with the devilfish, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and that horrible scene of the vessel sinking with its crew . . .
One gesture from him could obliterate me, a single word shackle me to his vessel!
And on the harbour, in the midst of the drays and casks, and in the streets, at the corners, the good folk opened large wonder-stricken eyes at this sight, so extraordinary in the provinces, a cab with blinds drawn, and which appeared thus constantly shut more closely than a tomb, and tossing about like a vessel.
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