74 examples of coxswain in sentences

But now Green, the Hillton coxswain, turned his head slightly, studied the position of the rival eight, glanced ahead at the judges' boat, and spoke a short, sharp command.

And as they went from sight, Joel, stooping, yelling, over the railing, saw, with the piercing shriek of the launch's whistle in his ears, the upraised face of Green, the coxswain, smiling placidly up at him.

She pressed on, however, and managed to reach the coxswain's house and give her message.

Formerly coxswain of Admiral de Boissondy's launch on board the Redoubtable.

Many a summer afternoon have I rowed joyously with these same maidens beneath these steep and garlanded shores; many a time have they pulled the heavy four-oar, with me as coxswain at the helm,the said patient steersman being oft-times insulted by classical allusions from rival boats, satirically comparing him to an indolent Venus drawn by doves, whi

Williams, a burly torpedo coxswain, at once took charge of Ken.

It was Williams, the coxswain.

The other coxswain who was at the periscope at the moment, looked up.

The other coxswain, too, had gone to his place, and Sub-Lieutenant Hotham had taken his seat at the forward periscope.

'He's right,' said Roy, 'but we shall want a pistol or two as well.' 'Plenty here, Horan,' said Williams, the torpedo coxswain, holding up a couple of the big regulation Navy revolvers.

'Up and at 'em!' came a hurricane yell from Williams, and with one bound the big coxswain had leaped aboard the launch, and was laying about him with his cutlass.

The ruddy weather-stained coxswain swung the wheel this way and thathis eyes were of the blue that only the sea can givein obedience to, or rather in accord with, the curt, mystic, seaman-like orders of the young officer of the watch.

" "The stern sheets?" said Forester, "what do you mean by the stern sheets?" "Why, it is aft," said Marco, "between the coxswain's place and the stroke-oarsman.

Marco said that it would require a crew of eight to man the boat properly: six oarsmen, a bowman, and a coxswain.

In fact, the coxswain is the commander of the boat's crew.

"I will be bowman," said Marco, "and you can be coxswain, and then we shall want six boys for oarsmen.

" "You will have to explain to me then what my duties will be," said Forester, "for I don't even know what a coxswain is.

" "Then you must be coxswain at first," said Forester, "for I don't know any thing about it.

After I have learned to manage a boat with six oars, man-of-war fashion, I should like to be coxswain sometimes very much.

I'm coxswain; you must wait till I tell you, before one of you goes aboard.

And now he's adrift amidst snags, stumps, and rooks, And the Coxswain has just lost his rudderpoor Cox.!

No; Stroke, Bow, and Coxswain must "go it like bricks," If they mean to get out of this troublesome fix.

the coxswain was warned, lest the barge should get into some of the troubles meant for Fritz.

Yet presently there was a revulsion of feeling as she was roused from her meditations by the coxswain's answer to her uncle, who had asked what was a smart, swift little smack, which after receiving something from a boat, began stretching her wings and making all sail for the Isle of Wight.

" "He has nought to do with the robberies, they say," added the coxswain; "but I could tell of many a young spark who has gone out with the fair traders for the sport's sake, and because gentle folk don't know what to do with their time.

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