cabin-boys

Yes, but I love to slip the virtue and severity of the noble Romans under the grey light of your eyes, and dancing grasses and summer breezes and the laughter and shouts of boys at play — of naked cabin-boys squirting each other with hosepipes on the decks of ships.

The Waves 2003

He was of the land and knew nothing about ships, but he had often read of boys who ran away to sea -- they shipped as cabin-boys and often were killed by the rough life or never heard of again.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

And it was not till John Broom had learned ship's language that he found out that Davy's Locker meant the deep, and that the other cabin-boys were dead.

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

The one-eyed sailor had told him that the captain always took orphans and poor friendless lads to be his cabin-boys, and John Broom thought what a nice kind man he must be, and how different from the farm-bailiff, who thought nobody could be trustworthy unless he could show parents and grand-parents, and cousins to the sixth degree.

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

Having noticed that the two cabin-boys were heedless, she had determined herself to keep watch over the magazine.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

But after they had sailed, when John Broom felt very ill, and asked the one-eyed sailor where he was to sleep, the one-eyed sailor pleasantly replied that if he hadn't brought a four-post bed in his pocket he must sleep where he could, for that all the other cabin-boys were sleeping in

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

And it was several days before some of us stopped calling the Chinese cabin-boys "Garcon."

The Log of the Empire State Geneve L. A. Shaffer

Captain Glass and his family, as well as all the crew except two cabin-boys.

The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

This was a lofty view, and for him answered his objects, but it bore hard on cabin-boys, and when, in time, the young man realised what had happened, he felt it as a betrayal.

Diplomacy (1861) 1918

I suspect that the sweetheart of one of our Filipino cabin-boys is now wearing a hat fairly smothered in bird-of-paradise plumes.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918