Iwo Jima and Okinawa fell to the telling power of American shells, bombs, and troops which stormed ashore supported by a great Allied armada.

They testify to great armadas of icebergs that in intervals some 5,000 to 10,000 years apart, suddenly invaded the ocean in vast numbers.

A portrait took shape, of a great armada bound for glorious war, which fate lured near a dark region of space.

There was a great armada surrounding her.

Slowly, ponderously this great armada moved across the Channel.

Rodi imagined he could hear a thrumming as the great armada forged onwards; flitters skimmed between the huge hulls and rained into three-space.

That fact alone was worth the power of great armadas.

That day, the leaders of the great armada abandoned their campaign and set sail for Brest.

These were the chiefs who led the great Greek armada from the harbour of Aulis.

It was a paltry flotilla compared with the great armadas that had come sweeping into the system only weeks ago.