How To Use Bosun In A Sentence
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One old man, who I learned was a bosun, was so decrepit that I thought he had been recently injured.
CHAPTER II
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Nancy -- my bosun; ain't he a peach?" was the answer I got, and from the mate's manner of enunciation I was quite aware that "Nancy" had been used derisively.
CHAPTER V
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Accordingly, arming an employee with a pickax and sending him into the vessel in a bosun's seat would be inadvisable.
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Jackie-Jackie, a Tongan sailor of experience, served as a sort of bosun and semi-second mate over the mixed Kanaka crew.
A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
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The wind that had roared all night lay quelled by the headland; the bosun grew too sleepy to shout.
Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick
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Beneath the third is the bosun, the leader of the able-bodied seamen and the foreman who actually puts the mate's orders into effect.
'A Captain's Duty'
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The two bosuns are in fear of their lives with this clique, which is growing; for Steve Roberts, the ex-cowboy, and the white-slaver, Arthur
CHAPTER XVII
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Jarvis had, with the instincts of a long-time bosun, known the master was on the bridge and orders would be coming down.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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On the day when Chadfield found the triple deadeye, his companion at the beach was 79-year-old Iain “Bosun” Dow, who told reporters:
Wrecked Ship Sends Beachcomber a “Gift” « Scavenging
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Various calls were made by bugle and bosun's pipe across the PA system of a ship to announce daily activities and pronouncements.
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Her father was, as she always put it, "in the King's Navy," and he had been "bosun" to a ship's
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
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The bosun's locker was full of oakum, rope, paint and varnish.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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‘They'll think you're a nutter,’ cut in Sean, the bosun, who put away seven pints in each port.
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Wegener watched the bosun fairly throw them into the Zodiac.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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By mid-afternoon, in a huge sea, with the wind after its last shift no more than a stiff breeze, the Tongan bosun sighted a schooner bottom up.
A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
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Among the lots was a bosun's whistle given to the widow of a passenger to enable her to communicate after she was struck dumb from grief at losing her husband.
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It was the mutinous bosun, calling himself the captain, who abandoned the three of them and the real captain on the ship.
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It has two speedboats slung over the back, many windsurfers, two jet skis, 12 cabins, a crew of eight (including a bosun) and the usual range of bar stools coated in whale foreskin.
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He showed Sharpe the galley beneath the forecastle, introduced him to masters-at-arms, cooks, Bosuns, Gunner's Mates, the carpenter, then offered to take Sharpe up the mainmast.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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Alternatively, I also have a thing about random whippings such as might be done by a bosuns mate with a rope's end on board ship, as the men were holystoning the decks.
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A bosun is a person who gives -- who blows a whistle to give orders to the other sailors.
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory & the American Revolution
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Good... The next time I catch you smoking during refuelling I will tell the bosun.
LET NOT THE DEEP
