Blake Sentence Examples

The next transmitter of note was that introduced by Francis Blake, which came into wide use in the United States of America a.nd other countries.

No meeting, however, took place between him and Blake, while bad weather scattered the Dutch.

It brought its fleet back, and then divided the ships, sending some to the north with Penn, and keeping the others, 40 in all, with Blake in the Downs.

Part was in the river fitting out under Blake, who had not fully recovered from his wound.

War was declared in May 1652 after a fight between Blake and Tromp off Dover, and was continued with signal victories and defeats on both sides till 1654.

In December 1654 Penn and Venables sailed for the West Indies with orders to attack the Spanish colonies and the French shipping; and for the first time since the Plantagenets an English fleet appeared in the Mediterranean, where Blake upheld the supremacy of the English flag, made a treaty with the dey of Algiers, destroyed the castles and ships of the dey of Tunis at Porto Farina on the 4th of April 1655, and liberated the English prisoners captured by the pirates.

Moncey (7000) had marched towards the city of Valencia, but been repulsed in attempting to storm it (June 28); Bessieres had defeated the Spanish general Joachim Blake at Medina de Rio Seco (June 14, 1808) and Dupont (13,000) had been detached (May 24) from Madrid to reduce Seville and Cadiz in Andalusia.

He then finally decided to attack Soult (intending subsequently to fall back through Galicia) and ordered up transports from Lisbon to Corunna and Vigo; thus changing his base from Portugal to the north-west of Spain; Blake's Spanish army, now rallying under the marquis de la Romana near Leon, was to co-operate, but was able to give little effective aid.

Occasionally acts of chastisement, of which the bombardment of Porto Farina by Blake in 1655 was the most notable, and repeated treaties, extorted by European powers, checked from time to time, but did not put an end to, the habitual piracies, on which indeed the public revenue of Tunis was mainly dependent.

The first commissioners were Edward Popham, Robert Blake and Deane, with the title of generals-at-sea.

In 1653 Deane was with Blake in command at the battle off Portland and later took the most prominent and active part in the refitting of the fleet on the reorganization of the naval service.

There were then 8 British ships in Dover under Rear-Admiral Nicholas Bourne, and 15 near Rye under Robert Blake, a member of parliament, and soldier who had gained a great reputation in the Civil War.

Blake came into the Straits of Dover with his ships, and on the 19th of May a sharp collision took place between him and Tromp. Bourne joined his countryman after the action began.

The Council of State, being mainly anxious to destroy the Dutch trade and fisheries, began by reinforcing Blake, and sending him north to scatter the Dutch herring fleet.

Soon after Blake had gone, Tromp appeared in the Downs with a stronger force and threatened an attack on Ayscue.

The failure of Ayscue, who was not employed again in this war, induced the Council of State to send Blake, who had now returned from the north, into the Channel.

His fleet was allowed to become scattered, and the Dutchman brought his convoy back safe after a partial action with Penn, Blake's subordinate, on the 6th of August.

In the 27th of September the Dutch appeared in force off the mouth of the Thames, and Blake, whose fleet was collected in the Downs, stood to sea.

Blake had not remained on the coast of Holland, for the Council of State was still almost as intent as the Dutch on convoying trade or molesting the enemy's.

Thus when Tromp appeared "at the back of the Goodwins" with a fleet of 80 war-ships and a crowd of merchant vessels on the 29th of November, Blake was not in a position to engage him with any assured prospect of success.

Blake, who offered to resign, complained of the conduct of many of them, and some were punished.

Penn was recalled from the north, Richard Deane and George Monk were united with Blake as "admirals and generals at sea," and a competent force was collected by the middle of February.

The English fleet had suffered severely, Blake himself was seriously wounded, and his colleague Deane was also hurt.

Blake's wound disabled him greatly through the remainder of the war.

The bulk of it was, however, ready for service, and Blake's colleagues, Monk and Deane, attacked Tromp on the 2nd of June.

Blake, informed by the sound of the cannon, which was audible on the Thames, that an action was in progress, hurried to sea and joined Monk in the pursuit of the Dutch on the 3rd of June.

Blake was forced by his still unhealed wound to go ashore, and the sole command was left to Monk, who remained cruising on the coast of Holland.

Edward Blake from Canadian politics to accept a seat in the British parliament as a member of the Home Rule party.

Edward Blake, who succeeded Mackenzie in the leadership of the party.

He was associated with Blake in his sustained opposition to high tariff, and to the Conservative plan for the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway, and was a conspicuous figure in the long struggle between Sir John Macdonald and the leaders of the Liberal party to settle the territorial limits of the province of Ontario and the legislative rights of the provinces under the constitution.

In 1887, upon the resignation of Blake on the ground of illhealth, Laurier became leader of the Liberal party, although he and many of the more influential men in the party doubted the wisdom of the proceeding.

Laurier could hardly have come to the leadership at a more inopportune moment, and probably he would not have accepted the office at all if he had not believed that Blake could be persuaded to resume the leadership when his health was restored.

A house in Blake Street, largely restored, was the birthplace of Admiral Blake in 1598.

For his conduct at the relief of Dublin he received the thanks of Parliament, and in 1651 he was employed under Blake in the operations for the reduction of Scilly.

He was early attracted by the works of William Blake, whose Songs of Experience he endeavoured to interpret, and of Swedenborg, to the elucidation of whose writings he devoted the best energies of his life.

The leaders on both sides - the Netherlanders Tromp (killed in action on the 10th of August 1653) and de Ruyter, the Englishmen Blake and Monk - covered themselves with equal glory.

Ellis he edited the Works of William Blake (1893), and also edited A Book of Irish Verse (1895).

His inspiration may be traced in some measure to the Pre-Raphaelites and also to Blake, Shelley and Maeterlinck; but he found in his native Irish legend and life matter apt for his romantic and often elfin music, with its artful simplicities and unhackneyed cadences, and its elusive, inconclusive charm.

Between 1877 and 1880 he took part in the three dredging expeditions of the steamer "Blake," of the United States Coast Survey, and presented a full account of them in two volumes (1888).

Porto Farina was the naval arsenal of the piratical beys of Tunis and was bombarded by the English under Admiral Blake in 16J5.

Blake's and Brunton's furnaces are reverberatory furnaces with a movable bed.

Blake Crofton, appeared in 1889.

The weaving of damask was introduced in 1718 by James Blake, who had learned the secret of the process in the workshops at Drumsheugh near Edinburgh, to which he gained admittance by feigning idiocy; and since that date the linen trade has advanced by leaps and bounds, much of the success being due to the beautiful designs produced by the manufacturers.

His second wife died of smallpox in 1698, and in 1700 Burnet married again, his third wife being Elizabeth (1661-1709), widow of Robert Berkeley and daughter of Sir Richard Blake, a rich and charitable woman, known by her Method of Devotion, posthumously published in 1710.

In 1655 the British admiral, Robert Blake, was sent to teach them a lesson, and he gave the Tunisians a severe beating.

His fiction includes Mr Blake's Walking Stick (1869), for children; The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1871); The End of the World (1872); The Mystery of Metropolisville (1873); The Circuit Rider (1874); Rosy (1878); The Hoosier Schoolboy (1883); The Book of Queer Stories (1884), for children; The Graysons (1888), an excellent novel; The Faith Doctor (1891); and Duf f els (1893), short stories.

Sir Peter Blake is also creating a new artwork to celebrate the return Live At Leeds concert by The Who.

The only relief from his Japanese captors was a battered volume he had found from the Sexton Blake Library.

Blake and Tinker return to London, having brought another case to a satisfactory conclusion.

Alone, Blake is suddenly confronted by two glowing green eyes.

Two new, edgy boy dolls, Blake and Brandon will hit the groovy scene this fall.

In 1956 for the first time in fifty years the Sexton Blake saga was given a face-lift.

While the frigates attacked the galleons, Blake's heavier warships sailed into the harbor to bombard the shore defenses.

Even then Blake was within sight of dying, had any of us had the hardihood to face the fact.

Off the Shelf organizers are especially delighted with the striking new brochure cover designed by renowned illustrator Quentin Blake.

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Blake comes to the rescue and also recovers the emerald necklace but Kew gets away to fight another day.

The scene where Blake and Tinker take pep pills doesn't sit well with 21st century sensibilities.

The farrier denies it and blames Nigel, revealing to Blake the plot to use the magnetic picklock to rob Barrymore's.

I conducted a poll among my friends, texting them to ask " Who is James Blake?

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In response, Reece goes on a murderous rampage which draws Sexton Blake into the affair.

This survey of female sidekicks comes full circle with another look at the Sexton Blake saga.

Blake himself seems rather secondary and his character is extremely sketchy.

A pretty standard example of early Blake, its plotting is rather slapdash and illogical with much padding and too many coincidences.

Blake's increased sophistication can be seen from a comparison of The Divine Image with The Human Abstract.

We were superb and it was Steve Davis who headed the winner after Robbie Blake had hit a stunner to equalize.

Blake the happy-clappy revivalist of Glad Day, banging a tambourine with Michael Horowitz.

But it was Sexton Blake who found the trapdoor.

Blake reveals the dark underbelly where danger and murder lurk in the shadows.

Educated at Upper Canada College and the university of Toronto, Blake was called to the bar in 1856 and quickly obtained a good practice, becoming Q.C. in 1864.

On the defeat of John Sandfield Macdonald's government in 1871 Blake became prime minister of Ontario, but resigned this office the same year in consequence of the abolition of dual representation.

During his absence the Liberal government was driven from power by the elections of 1878; and Blake himself, having failed to secure re-election, was for a short time without a seat in parliament.

Cromwell sent powerful English fleets to watch the coast of Spain and to prevent communications with the West Indies and America; on the 8th of September 1656 a fleet of treasure ships was destroyed off Cadiz by Stayner, and on the 10th of April 1657 Blake performed his last exploit in the destruction of the whole Spanish fleet of sixteen treasure ships in the harbour of Santa Cruz in Teneriffe.

Blind Blake neatly picking out impeccable ragtime piano tunes or the poignant strident slide of Tampa Red.

Nicholas Blake QC said that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights allowed for the possibility of rebellion against tyranny and oppression.

It is Los, who is usually Blake himself, who eventually brings about the redemption of humanity and the building of Jerusalem.

Blake Bailey 's absorbing biography is the story of an unlikely triumph salvaged from the wreckage of an unruly life.

Moving instinctively away from the seamier part of the city, Blake headed toward the distant main streets in search of the Police Headquarters.

Blake 's increased sophistication can be seen from a comparison of The Divine Image with The Human Abstract.

Hamilton returned on the 21st but Blake stayed on.

Blake learns that the villain and his captive have left on a steamer bound for America.

This was a bonus year for UNION JACK readers as the paper gave away 7 high busts of Sexton Blake.

Blake gathers all the suspects together, untangles the mystery, reveals Bacardi 's true identity and identifies the killer.

Although his captains wanted to search for the Spanish galleons immediately, Blake waited until victualling ships from England arrived to re-provision his ships.

He will be unharmed providing Blake gives up his quest to bring the villainous organization to justice.

No pleasant chat William Blake, beside being a visionary poet, worked also as a commercial artist.

First among Blake authors to join up was Norman Goddard, who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Darran.

This site features some of the greatest classic sad love poems by William Blake, Robert Browning, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, John Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare and so many more.

Cameron Blake dresses, part of Mon Cheri Bridal, are elegant and beautiful options for the mother of the bride.

The soul songstress and hubby Blake Fielder-Civil agreed to enter a facility following a three-day drug binge that hospitalized Winehouse on August 7, 2007.

The special will include interviews with Kelly Clarkson (season one), Ruben Studdard (season two), Bo Bice (season four), Chris Daughtry (fifth season), as well as Melinda Doolittle, Blake Lewis and Jordin Sparks (season six).

His father, Cecil Day-Lewis, is the Poet Laureate of England and a successful author (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) and his mother, Jill Balcon, was an actress.

The couple and their four adopted children, Parker, Chelsea, Blake and Vivienne, settled into their home in Queens and lived a relatively quiet life.

Fans of the hit television series Gunsmoke have often wondered, what happened to Amanda Blake?

Blake devoted most of her acting career to television and went on to become deeply involved in animal welfare causes before her death in 1989.

Amanda Blake was born Beverly Louise Neill on February 20, 1929, in Buffalo, New York.

When her family relocated to Claremont, California, Blake began working as a telephone operator there.

Amanda Blake appeared in 455 episodes.Known for her fiery red hair and striking appearance, Blake's character was the owner of the Long Branch Saloon on the show.

As many popular actors did at the time, Blake popped up in a variety of game shows as a celebrity panelist, including Hollywood Squares and Match Game.

Blake was an animal lover, and in 1971, she and some friends opened the Arizona Animal Welfare League (AAWL).

In 1985, Amanda Blake became an avid supporter of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), a group set up to protect the rights of performing and exotic animals.

Blake traveled to Africa several times to witness how these animals lived in their natural environment, and spent much of her time and money to promote PAWS.

In her final years, Blake lived at the PAWS sanctuary in Galt, California, where she interacted daily with the animals she was so passionate about.

A long-time smoker, Blake was diagnosed with oral cancer in 1980.

Amanda Blake had been married four times.

On August 16, 1989, Blake died in Sacramento, California at the age of 60.

Blake was cremated, and in her will, she asked that her possessions and memorabilia be auctioned off, with the proceeds going to PAWS.

In 1997, PAWS opened the Amanda Blake Memorial Wildlife Refuge at Rancho Seco Park in Herald, California.

While the answer to the question "What happened to Amanda Blake?" has a sad ending, she is remembered by many for her screen work as well as her compassion.

For the most part, shareholders breathed a sigh of relief upon Nardelli's departure, but many have doubts that incoming CEO Frank Blake has what it takes to run such a large a retail business.

They sell dresses by both Cameron Blake and Montage (you can find the designers listed in the left menu) in sizes up to 26WP.

Your partner probably can tell the difference between your own writing and William Blake.

The Elements of Technical Writing by Gary Blake and Bob Bly - This short guide outlines the very basics of technical writing for those who are unfamiliar with this profession.

The luxurious Italian calf leather, with its soft buttery feel, is only one of the many reasons women everywhere love authentic Marc Jacob's Blake handbags.

Introduced during the fall/winter collection of 2004, the Blake style handbag was added to the Marc Jacobs Classic Collection, joining the Sophia, Stella, Venetia and Multi-Pocket handbags.

The Blake was a huge success with its chunky hardware and zipper pulls.

Featuring two front pockets adorned with engraved padlocks featuring the Marc Jacobs trademark, the Blake has all the same features found in the Venetia, Sophia and Stella handbags.

Measuring approximately 9 inches high, 13 inches wide and 6 inches deep, the Blake handbag is smaller and more compact then the other styles, making it easy to carry.

The handle of the Blake satchel style handbag is made for ease of carrying.

One of the most counterfeited styles of the Marc Jacobs handbag line is the Blake.

Knowing what to look for when shopping for an authentic Marc Jacobs Blake handbag will protect you from becoming a victim of the counterfeit handbag market.

Blake style handbags, along with the other handbags in the Classic Collection, are made from Italian calf leather which is extremely soft.

The brands of zippers used on Marc Jacobs Blake handbags are either Riri or Lampo.

Suede was used to line early Blake handbags.

Luv My Marc is an excellent website that offers information and detailed photographs on counterfeit Blake handbags by Marc Jacobs.

A staple in the Marc Jacobs handbag line, the Blake is fashionable and functional.

With its classic style, variety of color choices, and perfect size, an authentic Marc Jacob's Blake handbag would be a perfect fit in anyone's handbag collection.

The show stars James Arness, Milburn Stone and Amanda Blake, among others.

Elaine Hendrix got the part of Meredith Blake.

When asked how it's possible to fit all of that into the shoe design, company founder Blake Mycoskie said, "If I knew, I would tell you!

Davidson began her tenure as Kristen Blake in 1993, originally a heroine, Kristen gradually became a villainess.

His on-again/off-again love/hate relationship with former wife Holly produced daughter Blake and years of storylines.

In Salem, everyone has their roles and Blake Berris' role of Nick Fallon is resident geek.

Rory Gilmore joined fellow teen stars America Ferrera (Betty, Ugly Betty), Amber Tamblyn (ex-Emily, GH) and Blake Lively (Serena, Gossip Girl) for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

The pair is joined by Dan Fitzgerald (Brett Tucker), Karl and Susan's daughter and Dan's husband, Elizabeth "Libby" Kennedy/Fitzgerald (Kym Valentine), Libby's son Ben (Blake O'Leary) also live at Number 30.

In 1985, Blake's daughter Amanda Carrington was set to marry Prince Michael of Moldavia.

Blake on the now defunct ABC Family series Wildfire, a bull rider who died in his last appearance.

Eileen Davidson began her tenure on the NBC daytime drama as heroine Kristen Blake, but under the show's writers, Eileen Davidson also played Susan Banks (a Kristen look alike) as well as Sister Mary Moira, Thomas and Penelope.

During this episode, Cane Ashby was shot by Blake Joseph.

During the attack, Cane managed to knock Blake down the stairs where the man broke his neck, but Cane passed away from his wounds.

Quentin Blake's Ten Frogs Dix Grenouilles is a cute book that goes through the first ten numbers in French.

In 2007, Winehouse married Blake Fielder-Civil.