Captain Farmer, of the Swift frigate, who commanded the garrison, ordered the crew of the Swift to come on shore, and assist in its defence; and directed captain Maltby to bring the Favourite frigate, which he commanded, nearer to the land.

"There has been no prisoner put to death by my people since they left Cherry Valley," Thayendanega replied, as if irritated by the general's persistence, and, making another gesture with his hand, he sent back into the cover of the forest all his motley crew.

And not to join the illiberal crew In their contempt of female merit; What's bad enough in them, from you Is want of goodness, want of spirit.

Each of the vessels carried a crew of about 650 men, and the total of the death roll was about 1,400.

At the worst, he could summon Mercer, who would bring a rough crew from the water-side to his aid.

" "You gentlemen will pick a volunteer crew and go aboard at once.

"Why, we shipped another crew under Ives and McGuire that noon.

Six men working in pairs four hours at a time compose the entire crew of the largest ship, and half this number are required for the smallest that undertakes a voyage of more than twelve hours.

Barron politely received him in his cabin, when the lieutenant presented a demand from the commander of the Leopard that the bearer be allowed to muster the crew of the Chesapeake, that he might select and carry away the deserters.

As late as the year 1842 these pirates attacked a brig that was lying at anchor in the Macao Roads, murdering the crew and plundering the vessel.

She took a crew of black rowers to row the canoe and a group of the black children she had adopted.

This unwholesome state of the air increased the number of our sick, for soon after leaving Timor the crew were attacked by dysentery brought on by change of diet; and at one time the disease wore a very alarming appearance.

Monohan's got a hard crew, and they jumped us as soon as we started to clear the channel.

I was actually serving as first officer on a pirate ship in search of vessels to rob on the high seas, commanding a crew of West Indian cut-throatsthe very scum of hell, and under the order of a Portuguese devil, whose ambition coolly plotted murder.

Monday morning found the dissipated crew still the guests of the Sizers, and when big Bill slowly spelled out the assertion made by the Tribune that his sister had "a roughish smile" loud cries of indignation arose.

It was a very civil letter from the owners of the ship, thanking us for all we had done to save the unhappy crew and passengers, but saying they knew nothing of the child or her belongings, as no one of the name of Villiers had taken a cabin, and there was no sailor on board of that name.

Oh-Pshaw labored heroically to infuse a spark of life into the company; she wrote a really clever little song about "the Exclusive Crew of the Irish Stew," but she could not induce the exclusive crew to sing it, so her first poetic effort was love's labor lost.

Kurt went down, but, once down, he heaved so powerfully that he threw off the whole crew.

The motive power is furnished by the powerful motor truck at the right, which also carries most of the artillerymen forming the gun crew.

There he called his crew together, and told them he intended to take his ship to the East Indies.

These were not allowed to register until shortly before the battle began, and they borrowed guns from other batteries in order to train the gun crews.

It may be suggested that the men wanted by the navy could have been passed on to it from our merchant vessels, which could then complete their own crews with boys, landsmen, and fishermen.

Probably in no other place upon the globe was gathered as motley a crew: English, Indian, Scandinavian, French, German, Negroes, Chinese, Poles, Japs, Finns.

The skipper isn't a man to take fool chances, and when he recruited this crew, he took nobody he couldn't answer for.

"Don't you see that the only thing that keeps this crew from gettin' restless is keeping them busy?