seamen

• He accordingly suffered the ship to proceed: bringing away only a few volunteer Genoese seamen from the Spanish vessel, who expressed their desire of the honour to serve in the British fleet, and their resentment of the ill usage which they had recently experienced from the detested French. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I
• I perceived our seamen were apprehensive of the danger of missing the channel, which I understood was narrow. —  The Journal of John Woolman
• The arrows thus flew wide of their mark, and the seamen were able to convey Mr Large to the boat, and to shove off without molestation. —  The Three Commanders
• He had told them that the seamen were a little disorderly, and that it was necessary to have them in perfect discipline before they went to Germany. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• "I am sorry to hear that some of the officers and seamen are very much displeased at the idea of going to sea So far as the seamen are concerned, it is their own fault, for they have not done their duty," added the captain Not the fault of all of them, I hope Not all, certainly; but if they don't know their stations, they must learn them. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany

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