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How to use brig in a sentence

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Back talk again, and you will be clamped in irons and thrown in the brig until we get to the next port.
Back they went to Sydney to find another ship, this time on the brig Elizabeth.
I told him there must be a rational explanation and then locked him in the brig to live on bread and grog for a week.
The whole of us then commenced heaving the brig short, sending the whale-boat to take her in tow, after we had tripped the anchor.
After being left in the brig for a few days the captain finally came to retrieve her.
And YOU need to remember, Nelal, you are a civilian, and I can have you thrown in the brig for such conduct.
The captain and his crew on the brig Elizabeth exchanged a cargo of flax for transport to Akaroa.
All day and night the good brig Quedagh Merchant bobbed and weaved through the winter's stormy blast.
A year later a group of American sealers arrived aboard the brig Union.
Then you'll find yourselves in the brig awaiting trial, young man.
Anyone caught dilly dallying will be sent to the brig without question!
One tremendously successful ship design was the two-masted brig of war.
He arrived in South Australia on his own ship, the brig New Holland.
Several men boarded the brig Geddes, at anchor in the Chester River.
The sailors on board of a brig must enter the masts daily in order to furl the sails.
Wearing leg irons, they were transferred from floating brig to floating brig.
So, after the fun, she was arrested. For a year she was kept in a military brig while her broadcasts were investigated.
Make sure to brig SILVER duct tape, any other color will be distracting, and judges will take off points.
Manning was forced to strip and remain on a suicide-risk regime against the recommendations of brig mental-health professionals.
Navy's brig Enterprise fought and captured the Royal Navy brig Boxer off Pemaquid Point.
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The difficulty was to secure the towrope, while there was no time to be lost if the brig was to be saved.
Looking about me, I found a brig called the Hippomenes, bound to Gibraltar, and back.
On one occasion a collier brig had been windbound for several days in the Yarmouth roads.
The brig may get a lot of sternway on her should this squall not strike her fairly.
I next served with him on board the Pelican, a fourteen gun brig to which he was soon afterwards appointed.
The brig sailed, however, and stood across the Atlantic, as if in good earnest.
A brig was chartered as a cartel, on board of which the Frenchmen were at once sent.
At the next instant, the brig rose on a sea, settled in the trough, and struck.
I have had him removed from the brig to the sick-bay, and have put a hospital attendant on watch over him to-night.
We had the good fortune to take a large ship laden with barilla, and a brig with tobacco and wine.
Our passage from Para was good until the brig reached the latitude of Bermuda.
No tidings could be gained either of the brig or the fleet of piratical junks.
The idea of remaining in the brig was unpleasant to me, and I had thought of quitting her for some days.
Maurice had left the brig at the quay at Greenock ready to sail.
The Bremen brig had her colors at half-mast, appealing to us for aid.
The sheet anchor was let go, and alone now kept the brig from destruction.
The strange brig had hauled up for us even before we got out the launch.
She was an hermaphrodite brig of 310 tons, mounting 17 guns.
The brig had been hulled once, and two shots had passed through her sails.
Above it the top-hamper of the brig loomed indistinct and high.
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