But that Chinese ship refused to be intimidated.

When Captain Adair ordered full astern, the ship simply refused to move.

So one by one the many items of the ships were thrown into sea but the ship refused to budge.

Your other ship refuses to answer our hails.

However, 11 Samian ships refused to desert the other Ionians, and remained at the battle.

The defective drivers must have been bunched together off- center, for the ship now refused to run straight.

What an anticlimax if the ship refused to acknowledge them!

But the huge ship refused to rise off the ground!

It is likely that some ships would refuse to take part in the necessary operations.

It happened, however, that when the blocks were knocked away the big ship refused to budge, and no amount of labor could move her an inch.