blockade-runner
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- blockade-running noun
Etymology
Origin of blockade-runner
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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This projectile was dubbed ‘the Devil’ by those on board, who were by no means anxious to hear its voice, for the lightly-built blockade-runner trembled in every knee at each discharge.
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In 1862 he retired from the navy with the rank of post-captain; but his love of adventure led him, during the American Civil War, to take the command of a blockade-runner.
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He had graduated from the Naval Academy in 1863, and, by an act of daring gallantry in cutting out a blockade-runner, had easily won a lieutenant's commission.
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In five minutes I decided to become a blockade-runner and to buy the new and already famous ship, if she was to be had at any price within reason.
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The Arkadi, our blockade-runner, after landing her cargo, took on board more than three hundred women and children, fleeing from the last extremities of want and misery.
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