blue-jackets

No. These were English men in English boats — good blue-jackets and red-coats — marines that I knew myself, and sailors that knew our seamen!

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

No. These were English men in English boats — good blue-jackets and red-coats — marines that I knew myself, and sailors that knew our seamen!

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

To surprise the Martello Tower and take the feeble garrison thereunder, was the work of Tom Coxswain and a few of his blue-jackets.

Burlesques 2006

To surprise the Martello Tower and take the feeble garrison thereunder, was the work of Tom Coxswain and a few of his blue-jackets.

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

Simply impossible to tell how well these blue-jackets behaved; a most interesting lot of men; this education of boys for the navy is making a class, wholly apart — how shall I call them? — a kind of lower-class public school boy, well-mannered, fairly intelligent, sentimental as a sailor.

Vailima Letters 2005

With this disgusting peace on, and no chance of prize-money, and plenty in their pockets for a good spell ashore, blue-jackets will be scarce when Sir Duncan Yordas sails.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Fox-hill, it shall be constructed and manned by blue-jackets.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

I know now that Ward, a stranger to the Pearl, and with only a clown of a boatman as pilot, had missed his turning in the dark, and run slap into one of our Canton patrollers, but in that moment I was aware only that the blue-jackets were upon us, and poor old Flash was sitting on top of the damnedest load of contraband you ever saw.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I know now that Ward, a stranger to the Pearl, and with only a clown of a boatman as pilot, had missed his turning in the dark, and run slap into one of our Canton patrollers, but in that moment I was aware only that the blue-jackets were upon us, and poor old Flash was sitting on top of the damnedest load of contraband you ever saw.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I know now that Ward, a stranger to the Pearl, and with only a clown of a boatman as pilot, had missed his turning in the dark, and run slap into one of our Canton patrollers, but in that moment I was aware only that the blue-jackets were upon us, and poor old Flash was sitting on top of the damnedest load of contraband you ever saw.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985