How To Use bluejacket In A Sentence
- A lieutenant in the bluejacket of a cavalry regiment came into the room. Sharpe's Honour
- 'Get along up on deck, soldier,' said a bluejacket. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
- He wore a dark bluejacket, striped tie and khaki slacks with his fraternity pin on his jacket lapel. Twilight’s Child
- And although the bluejackets might complain at the extra work involved in the daily swabbing of the decks, they, too, recognized its importance and so they did it well.
- Indeed all around them was evidence of the new South African diamond rush and more than one of the bluejackets, including the expedition's photographer, deserted, tempted by the lure of an easy fortune.
- The 'handy-man' as a term for a bluejacket is an interesting parallel. Times, Sunday Times
- And that, too, was a symptom of a continuing source of tension: The officers were eating as if they were still in harbor while the bluejackets were dining only on salt meat and biscuit.
- This was "Taff" Williams, Stoker First-class, comedian tenth-class, and master of patter unintelligible (mercifully so, perhaps) to any but a bluejacket audience. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
- He was in the uniform of a French officer, a senior officer, his red-collared bluejacket bright with gold insignia. Sharpe's Enemy
- The bluejackets, though, had their own name for it - ‘animal fluid’ - reflecting their cynicism at the newfound love affair that the middle classes were enjoying with the new Victorian religion, science.
