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«Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.»
«I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India!»
Author: Diana Vreeland (Editor) | Keywords: adore, India, navy, navy blue, pink
«A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy»
Author: Max Weinreich | Keywords: dialect, dialects, navy
«I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.»
«I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.»
«For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.»
«And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Hiram, In the Navy, navy, Solomon
«And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.»
«And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Edom, Eloth, navy
«Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: navy, recruit, recruited, the mob

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