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Fro·bish·er (fr

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-), Sir Martin 1535?-1594.

English explorer who made three voyages to the Canadian Arctic (1576, 1577, and 1578) in search of the Northwest Passage.

Frobisher [ˈfrəʊbɪʃə]

(Biographies / Frobisher, Sir Martin (?1535-1594) M, English, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: navigator, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorer) Sir Martin. ?1535-94, English navigator and explorer: made three unsuccessful voyages in search of the Northwest Passage (1576; 1577; 1578), visiting Labrador and Baffin Island

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Frobisher - English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594)

Sir Martin Frobisher

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Frobisher Bay Iqaluit Nunavut Sir Martin Frobisher	Black Letter tells me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that voyage, when Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him from a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the Thames; when Sir Martin returned from that voyage, saith Black Letter, on bended knees he presented to her highness a prodigious long horn of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context Be rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, of your own streams and oceans; explore your own higher latitudes -- with shiploads of preserved meats to support you, if they be necessary; and pile the empty cans sky-high for a sign. Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context Few travellers that have visited Canada some thirty years since, in the days of the M'Tavishes, the M'Gillivrays, the M'Kenzies, the Frobishers, and the other magnates of the Northwest, when the company was in all its glory, but must remember the round of feasting and revelry kept up among these hyperborean nabobs. Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context	Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friulian frivol frivol away Frivolism frivolity frivolous frivolously frivolousness Friz Frize Frizel frizette frizz frizzante frizzball frizzed Frizzing machine frizzle Frizzler frizzly frizzy Frl. fro Fröbel Frobisher Frobisher Bay frock frock coat frock tart Frocked frocking Frockless Fröding froe Froebel Froebelian Froebelist Froelichia frog Frog cheese Frog eater Frog fly Frog hopper frog kick frog legs Frog lily frog orchid frog pad frog spit frog spittle	FRNPH FRNS FRNS FRNS FRNSA FRNSTP-R FRNT FRNY FRNZ FRNZCGP fro fro fro Frø Frø FROA Frob Frob Frobel Frobel Fröbel Fröbel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froben Froben, Johann Froben, Johannes Frobenius Institute Frobenius method Frobenius, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Leo Froberger, Johann Jakob Frobisher Frobisher Bay Frobisher Bay Frobisher, Martin Frobisher, Sir Martin Frobisher, Sir Martin Frobnicate Frobnitz Frobozz Magic Programming Language Frobozz Magic Programming Language FROC FROCC FROCE Fröchlich syndrome Fröchlich syndrome frock frock frock frock coat frock coats Frock suit frock tart frocked frocked frocked Frocken Frocken Frocken frocking frocking frocking

Black Letter tells me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that voyage, when Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him from a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the Thames; when Sir Martin returned from that voyage, saith Black Letter, on bended knees he presented to her highness a prodigious long horn of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

Be rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, of your own streams and oceans; explore your own higher latitudes -- with shiploads of preserved meats to support you, if they be necessary; and pile the empty cans sky-high for a sign.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

Few travellers that have visited Canada some thirty years since, in the days of the M'Tavishes, the M'Gillivrays, the M'Kenzies, the Frobishers, and the other magnates of the Northwest, when the company was in all its glory, but must remember the round of feasting and revelry kept up among these hyperborean nabobs.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

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