coxswain

• The boat, however, was a large one, and the coxswain was an old seaman, who seemed calm and collected as he stood up and surveyed the breakers through which we had to pass. —  In the Wilds of Africa
• The coxswain--Mr Isaac Jarman--who has rendered heroic service in the Ramsgate Lifeboat during the last ten years, has been personally instrumental in saving between four and five hundred lives Note 2. —  The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
• With one bound the coxswain was overboard. —  The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
• It was a somewhat strange fancy, but the coxswain was a man who, having taken a fancy, was not easily turned from it In order to her being got comfortably ready in good time, Nellie Carr had slept the night before at the house of an uncle, who was a farmer, and lived near the church. —  The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
• "That is--if Nellie has got enough of line made At that moment Nell was busy with the line in question, and at the same time doing her best to comfort Mrs Mitford--Mrs Hayward being engaged in preparing dinner; by no means a difficult duty, which the women undertook day about 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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