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Definition of Navies
1. navy [n] - See also: navy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Navies
Literary usage of Navies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1866)
"English and French Dockyard Police 56 XIX.—Materials for the French and XX.—English
New Works 66 English navies 66 XXII.—Maritime Justice 67 XXI. ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"These were tho strongest of their navies. But even these, though many generations
after tho Trojan war, appear to have used but few triremes, ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"navies — Continued. Hace for naval supremacy. Ind. 66: 643-4. Mr. 25, '09. ...
Vanishing navies. Liv. Age. 262: 565-7. Ag. 28, '09. What our navy costs us. ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1898)
"A NOTE ON 'BRITISH SHIPS IN FOREIGN navies' IN the article bearing the above
title, published in the April number of this Review, the following passages ..."
5. The British Navy at War by William Macneile Dixon (1917)
"CHAPTER IX navies AND ARMIES —WHAT THE BRITISH NAVY HAS DONE FOR THE WORLD NOTHING
is more natural than to compare the policy of a naval with that of a ..."
6. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1906)
"The chief part of the armed forces of the belligerents are their regular armies
and navies. What kinds of troops constitute a regular army and a regular ..."
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