Lexicographical Neighbors of Praos
Literary usage of Praos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
"Swiftest of all were the "praos"' very slight hulls, almost disappearing under
their one immense whitish-brown sail, shaped like a bird's wing, ..."
2. Mountain Pathways: A Study in the Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount by Hector Waylen (1909)
"Now the Greek word praos means essentially the opposite of passionate or violent,
and it is therefore translated by such words as mild, gentle, or tranquil. ..."
3. America's Insular Possessions by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay (1906)
"There are of these praos, or boats, used in many places of the East-Indies, ...
Besides the large praos the natives used small canoes of various sizes. ..."
4. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
"Swiftest of all were the "praos"' very slight hulls, almost disappearing under
their one immense whitish-brown sail, shaped like a bird's wing, ..."
5. Mountain Pathways: A Study in the Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount by Hector Waylen (1909)
"Now the Greek word praos means essentially the opposite of passionate or violent,
and it is therefore translated by such words as mild, gentle, or tranquil. ..."
6. America's Insular Possessions by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay (1906)
"There are of these praos, or boats, used in many places of the East-Indies, ...
Besides the large praos the natives used small canoes of various sizes. ..."
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