noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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Death is in the sperm like the ancient mariner With his horrible tale.
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Grandad's explanation sounds more probable than the others. Ancient mariners were a knowing all lot.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also patron of battle, the dead, mariners, paratroopers, police officers, and radiologists.
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Also patron of infants and mariners.
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In terms of occupations, at least three-quarters of the tonnage was owned by merchants, mariners or persons connected in other ways with shipping.
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Sometimes he is the mariner , steering the ship of state through storm-tossed seas.
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The mariners spent the night in such shelter as they could find from the 30-knot winds, drenching squalls and menacing waves.
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They send a chart daily to mariners by high-frequency radio facsimile and over the Internet.