1.   The theory that ancient mariners took advantage of oceanic currents to roam the seas on primitive rafts.

2.   Ancient mariners believed that the vernal and autumnal equinoxes were accompanied by severe storms.

3.   Ancient mariners believed that the vernal and autumnal equinoxes were likely to be accompanied by severe storms.

4.   Ancient mariners believed that big storms formed on the equinoxes.

5.   Ancient mariners believed that the times of the autumn and spring equinoxes were more likely to be accompanied by severe storms.

6.   Apparently, ancient mariners often ventured out of sight of land, contrary to the impression left by decades of work on wrecks in shallow coastal waters.

7.   Adams and his fellow knot theorists got a boost from ancient mariners, whose sailing knots help the computer-assisted, high-tech work of today.

8.   If the scene might have astonished the ancient mariner, it came as no surprise to President Bush.

9.   In Oregon, remembered visions of ancient mariners return like ghosts of storybooks past, from Ahab and Bligh to Wynken, Blynken and Nod.

10.   It was Ramazan, a man with the eyes of the ancient mariner, who told us how war had torn Afghanistan.