Which preposition to use with crew
At ten o'clock of a puffy, mist-laden morning a new and strong crew of nine men boarded the Laughing Lass.
She was quiet for a few moments, and then asked: "Are you making much progress at the wreck?" "Our progress is slow, but we are getting there," Lister replied, and seeing her interest, narrated his and Brown's struggles, and his long voyage with a short crew on board the tug.
Rolling in on a great surge, the boat suddenly turned in a boiling eddy, and the first thing anybody knew was that the Tulare was on her side and her crew in the water.
The crews at each piece laughed among themselves, but there were none of the picturesque shouts of command, the indiscriminate blowing of bugles, and the flashy waving of battle flags that the word battle usually conjures up.
Von Ludwig led the former engine-room crew to the guns forward.
"Don't you see that the only thing that keeps this crew from gettin' restless is keeping them busy?
And this wild, unkempt, villainous crew with its master and his almost ridiculous contrast of neatness and filth;did Dr. Schermerhorn realise to what he had trusted himself and his precious expedition, whatever it might be?
The corporal told off a certain number of those nearest to act as crew for the gun, explaining to them just how they should set about the task of recharging when once it had been discharged, and then the remainder of the spectators, save we Minute Boys who were entitled to remain at our stations, were forced to fall back that they might not impede the work after it was once begun.
And why we robbed our merchants of their crews by rigorous impresses, without employing them either to guard our trade, or subdue our enemies?
The toil, however, could be much lessened, by dividing the crew into the customary watches.
How long a cruise?" "I want to rent your schooner and your crew as-long-as I-please-to remain.
She wus such a trig sailor Sanchez decided to keep her afloat, an' sent a prize crew aboard ter sail her inter Porto Grande.
"Why, we shipped another crew under Ives and McGuire that noon.
I've tamed wild crews before today and it might as well be first as last.
These were very acceptable and beneficial to the crew after such a lapse of time without vegetable food except the wild plants gathered in Tierra del Fuego.
These constituted the various characters of the piece, the name of which had been kept a profound secret from the crew until the morning of the day on which it was acted.
"I've done my best to keep the crew out of my private affairs, but now it seems impossible.
And now the little ship in which he sailed Safe bore the crew along the wat'ry waste, And after twenty days' fast sailing she Encountered on the way a storm, was wrecked, And all save Rudra perished in the waves.
Thus, if a captain arrives in a ship with twenty men, of whom ten are black, he is instantly robbed of half his crew during his whole stay in the harbour; and on what plea is this done?
" Andy was sent off by the manager to the superintendent of the moving crew about noon.
There was something really dreadful in the very idea of it; and Annie Foster turned pale enough when she thought of the gay little yacht, and her brother out on the broad Atlantic in it, with no better crew than Dab Kinzer and Dick Lee.
Fyfe had pulled his cedar crew off the Tyee before she left.
When I run the beachyew've heard me tell of the time I was on the Life-savin' Crew over ter Bleak Hill fer a spellmy cap'n he had a fist jest like that.
But birds, and perchance beasts, might be expected to take themselves off when the winter arrived, and leave the crew without fresh food.
Horror-stricken, I rushed into the saloon and found Captain Nemo, mute and gloomy, standing by the port panel, which had instantly been slid back, watching with a terrible satisfaction the injured vessel sinking with all its crew beneath the waves.