baroque

Example Sentences

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“Is it perhaps too wild a stream to be navigated in the accustomed barques of narration?”

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2019

Later and much slower were the iron & steel wool clippers, the still later four-masted barques competing with steam.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sloops and cutters, brigs and barques, flagged with silks of red and blue and green.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Its expense will not be great," M. de la Galissonière assures the minister, "the timber is transported there, and the remainder will be conveyed by the barques belonging to Fort Frontenac.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

The Phæaceans, too, have had dealings with “yellow-haired Rhadamanthus,” whom they carried back in their swift barques to Eubœa.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various