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1. In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.
2. Pontmercy had the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns of the British frigates.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRIGATE
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frigate
 n.  originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars; any small vessel on the water
Classic Sentence:
1  They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, The Medusa, which was destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Gericault with glory.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
2  The frigate Algesiras was anchored alongside the Orion, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
3  The whaling-pike is similar to a frigate's boarding-weapon of the same name.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
4  But the brig, frigate or what they call it, for I've no head for sea terms, never crossed a ditch without saying the Lord's Prayer backwards, struck a rock.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
5  So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the bold Hydriote, Canaris, issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
6  I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale; and I may look so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
7  Pontmercy had the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns of the British frigates.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
Example Sentence:
1  In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.