bireme

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Today, as in the time when the Phoenicians pushed their biremes seaward from Tyre and Sidon, the business of Lebanon remains business.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boupares had ordered pursuit; but they were a mile away before the first of the biremes shot out from the portal.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

It is one of the very few representations now in existence of ancient Greek biremes.

From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George C. V.

They were generally biremes, and well adapted for sea manœuvres.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey

Then came the biremes with their double rows of oars, and clewed-up sails, swinging on the yards.

From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Short, Richard