Meanings of whole flotilla in English

Some given names are surrounded by a whole flotilla of stable-names.

One day a whole flotilla of fishers, men, women and children, entered Southampton Harbor.

The whole flotilla ceased to paddle, and skimmed slowly along for some moments in dead silence.

The whole flotilla, including a multitude of canoes arranged by squadron, was now put in battle array.

The whole flotilla now began in alarm to fire at random on their unseen foes, and sometimes into each other.

Eight days after its departure, the Tampico returned into the bay of Espiritu Santo, with a whole flotilla of steamboats.

Brandt, the Dutchman, built him a whole flotilla; and already, in spite of the terrors of his mother, Natalia, Peter dreamed of the sea.

Where the river was wide a strong wind and high sea forced the whole flotilla to lay to, for the sake of the smaller craft.

On the 23rd the unarmed steamer Dal made the ascent, and by the 29th the whole flotilla reached Abu Hamed safely.

Strolled back slowly along the beach, and, at 8.30, in the gathering dusk, saw the whole flotilla glide away and disappear ghostlike to the Northwards.

"Those German cruisers 'ave captured a whole flotilla of prizes lately, and they needed th' tug to 'andle 'em for 'em."

(24) The whole flotilla fell into the Spartan's hands- acuriousinstance, it may be added, of cross purposes on the part of both belligerents.