1 This peace will be turning all our rich naval officers ashore.
2 The Crofts took possession with true naval alertness, and were to be visited.
3 Louisa had fine naval fervour to begin with, and they would soon grow more alike.
4 One would have said that he had been, in his day, a naval officer of some sort or other.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 5 The questions treated in it were purely naval.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 6 A middle-aged man, handsome and virile, in the uniform of a retired naval officer, was speaking in one of the rooms, and a small crowd was pressing round him.
7 Only Count Rostov was pleased with them as he had been pleased with those of the naval officer, the senator, and in general with whatever speech he had last heard.
8 In undress naval uniform, with a dirk, and holding his cap under his arm, he handed Kutuzov a garrison report and the keys of the town.
9 With that he flourished off the contents of his little tin pot, as if he had made the voyage, and had passed a first-class examination before the highest naval authorities.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS 10 The old were for the most part either in old uniforms of the nobility, buttoned up closely, with spurs and hats, or in their own special naval, cavalry, infantry, or official uniforms.
11 Commanded by a naval Post-Captain, the Rattler made a rattling voyage of it, and did some service; how much does not appear.
12 Elsewhere Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war.