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Examples
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Even deerskin was no match for thorns like daggers, limbs that snapped back at him like a bo'sun's lash.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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The door to the bo'sun's store, which lay to the port hand of the stairway leading down to the engine-room, had been hooked open and Petersen and Alex, standing two feet back in the unlit store, were only dimly visible.
Partisans MacLean, Alistair 1982
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I'm afraid that to talk to him you'll have to have yourself lowered in a bo'sun's chair to his cabin porthole.
Partisans MacLean, Alistair 1982
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A destroyer moved in and the last the Savo saw of Mike Forney was when he climbed into the bo'sun's chair, green top hat, green scarf and Irishman's pipe.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri Michener, James 1953
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"Gone to ----," but a woman's bitter cry cut short the bo'sun's speech.
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"Gummy!" he heard the bo'sun's voice near him in the darkness, and above all the din; "she is a blanked old bathing machine, ain't she?"
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I really believe I could see a tear in the old bo'sun's eye as he wished me farewell with the rest of them, the crew manning the rigging to give me a hearty cheer and "send off" that could be heard across the Mersey.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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He had brought with him the bo'sun and the carpenter, his own mate, the bo'sun's mate and the carpenter's mate, four P. O.'s, the sergeant of Marines, a few leading stokers and half-a-dozen hands; fifty fathoms of hawser-laid four-inch white rope; six stout stakes (ash); bags, canvas, twelve (one to collect the tickets earned by each division); and one thousand eight hundred tickets, numbered from one to one thousand eight hundred.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 Various
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Wasn't I bo'sun's mate on board the Indiaman as took him east twelve year ago or more?
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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But before an hour had gone by he was obliged to acknowledge that the bo'sun's weather prophecies were very correct, for the wind shifted point after point till it was right ahead and blowing half a gale.
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