How To Use Coxswain In A Sentence
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Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in
The Black Bar
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Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
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The shift in position of the disaffected crew comes as opinion in the resort town seemed to be swinging behind the former coxswain.
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In fact, the coxswain is the commander of the boat's crew.
Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont
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The sailors and coxswain running the whaleboat pushed off again to help the others towing away the wreckage.
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Attaches to the skeg and controlled by the coxswain to steer the boat by attached cables.
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In the past, lifeboats largely depended on inshore fishermen to serve as coxswains and crew.
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Instinctively, he put his hand out to get the coxswain to slow down.
FLASH POINT
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Whereupon Jack, calling the coxswain up out of the boat alongside for the purpose of keeping an eye upon things generally, and seeing that no trickery was attempted, went forward to the fore deck, where about three hundred men, women, and children were drawn up in four lines or ranks, two on each side of the deck.
The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
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Keep up your spirits, dear Peggy," said Nell, in that sweet, cosy tone -- if we may say so -- which played such havoc in Bob's bosom at the time when she was known as the coxswain's bride.
The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
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Everyone called the coxswain Adam, even his son and partner, Rufus the
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
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In, bows!" called the coxswain; and the two bowmen tossed and boated their oars, taking their stations in the fore-sheets, one of them with the boat-hook in his hand.
Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
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Unlike the typical yacht, cabin cruiser, rowboat, kayak or canoe, shells have no cleats for attaching a rope, said one coxswain.
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Each of the four participating countries entered thirteen rowers - five women, seven men and a coxswain.
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The coxswain gets a situation report from the coastguard and picks his crew.
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When the tender is safely alongside the ship, climb aboard when the coxswain tells you to.
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The coxswain of the lifeboat said: ‘It started out as a basic tow job, but ended up as a full-scale rescue.’
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Barmy British eccentricity rules the waves once again this Saturday as 16 straining, muscled hearties heave, two tiny coxswains fret and shout and, tradition assures us, Cockney urchins bedecked in blue scuffle alongside on the towpath scragging each other and hollering "C'mon Horx-ferd!" or "C'mon Cym-breege!
Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating
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Asked by Navy News if a sailor on Christmas Island now was to approach his ship, would he find a Naval police coxswain at the foot of the gangway waiting to check his bag?
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His late father was a coxswain on a boat, his mother a factory worker.
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Egypt's coxswain, who also coxes his country's eight, propelled his boat into the lead.
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He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously.
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Even so, he did his best, becoming an expert coxswain and taking up Olympic weight-lifting.
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There were basic engine controls and a wheel and the coxswain stood leaning against a padded backboard.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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As a coxswain, Presacan will be an essential part of her rowing team.
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The coxswains pushed off into the river and into safety.
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Former lifeboat coxswain Roland Stork was awarded the MBE for his services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
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I was two stone lighter than the then coxswain ( "cox") and interchanged us, and thereafter my destiny was fixed; I eventually rose to be cox of the first eight, and while I did not exactly steer them to victory (in fact, in the year of my coxswainship we did, formally, just about as badly as it is possible to do!), I nevertheless feel we put up a good fight.
Anthony J. Leggett - Autobiography
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The wave tests the courage of the coxswain, while difficulties exams human's tolerance.
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The boat's coxswain will need to know where you are long before you surface.
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It's not often you get to witness a relaxed coxswain.
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Lifeboat coxswain Gary Edwards praised the crew for their heroic work.
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The Navy coxswains boarded their respective Lampreys, and crewmen in the preparation room sealed the main hatches.
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It was a somewhat strange fancy, but the coxswain was a man who, having taken a fancy, was not easily turned from it.
The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
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The coxswains would rotate as well with only the captains remaining the same.
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Under the encouragement of their coxswain, Oliver Blach, they moved up to first, one seat at a time.
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As the coxswain was a steady fellow, and the wind was fair, I had no anxiety as to their finding their way.
The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific
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The coxswain may ask you to swim away from the reef at this time.
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There were basic engine controls and a wheel and the coxswain stood leaning against a padded backboard.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The coxswain sped his boat further on, arrows and bullets whizzing past their heads.
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The sailors and coxswain running the whaleboat pushed off again to help the others towing away the wreckage.
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When the tender is safely alongside the ship, climb aboard when the coxswain tells you to.
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He was a Navy assault coxswain aboard the USS Talladega during the Vietnam War.
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Even so, Nichols, watching from the Caledonia's quarterdeck, was almost mesmerized by the lifeboat coxswain 's seamanship.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Mr Easter said that previously coxswains had experienced difficulty in ship handling when using the ramp.
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Even the coxswains seemed taller to me than I am - and I am not exactly short myself.
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Even so, he did his best, becoming an expert coxswain and taking up Olympic weight-lifting.
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Stand by, Drumbeat, I shall advise the coxswain ," Collier said diplomatically.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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When they shot around this, of course the coxswain was the only one who immediately saw the exciting scene presented.
Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School
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The main events finished on the predicted lines as the host's teams made it to all the finals of the four events - single and double sculls, coxswainless pairs and coxed fours.
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To the drum of a coxswain, international member paddlers of the Shanghai Shang Long Dragon Boat Team press forward on Dianshan Lake.
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Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
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She too was relieved of her duty as OOD by the command at the station and told to get underway becoming the third coxswain to arrive at the scene with a crew.
Barbara L. Patton: Flight 1549 Responder Honored With Military Leadership Award
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As coxswain, I would steer, control the pace, and act as the eyes of the oarsmen, who were facing backward.
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Guided by coxswain, Pete Cipollone, the five foot one steerer used his international experience that stretches back to 1989 to keep his crew in front.
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The ship's only reported mishap came when a coxswain was hit in the neck (but not badly wounded) by a bullet ricocheting off a modern pentathlete's target.
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Even so, Nichols, watching from the Caledonia's quarterdeck, was almost mesmerized by the lifeboat coxswain's seamanship.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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He came hurrying aft, nearly tumbling once; while, left to his own power alone, the coxswain redoubled his efforts to keep down the water, and the tin baler went _scoop scroop, scoop scroop_, and _splash splash_, as he sent the water flying.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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Three heats with the top three boats qualifying for the final left it up to the coxswains to call the race plan.
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'Hold on, men, for your lives!' sang out the coxswains, and on came the hollow green sea, so far above their heads that it seemed as they gazed into its terrible transparency that the very sky had become green, and it broke into the lifeboat, hoisting her up to the vessel's foreyard, and then plunging her bodily down and down.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
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The little coxswain of the Atalanta was the last to step on board.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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At 2 a.m. the coastguard on Deal beach called the coxswain of the lifeboat, R. R.berts.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
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The Coxswain Authority is especially, ironically evident in basketball.
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Woodward, who retired as coxswain of Bembridge lifeboat in the summer, is also made an MBE.
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The coxswain is fitted snugly into the bow end of the boat steering and motivating the crew.
