ship-captain

• “The tale involves Latro and his ship-captain friend exploring the upper reaches of the Nile for the current ruler in Egypt.”

  REVIEW: Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe

• “This set of books – told mostly through the viewpoints of Gretchen Anderssen (our indomitable xenoarchaeologist), Mitsuharu Hadeishi (our cunning ship-captain) and their friends – is the story of the end of the Sixth Sun and what happened to humanity in that dark and terrible time.”

  On the Spot at BSC – Thomas Harlan interview

• “The former, from the Persian Nákhodá or ship-captain which is also used in a playful sense “a godless wight,” one owning no (ná) God (Khudá).”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “It was left for a Portuguese ship-captain called Cabrillo to find the port of San Diego in 1542.”

  Stories of California

• “Tournaud, an old ship-captain expects his daughter”

  The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas

• “_ -- The Pangeran spoke to me of some ship-captain who was notoriously cruel to his Lascars, and insolent in his language to the Malays.”

  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

• “I gratefully declined, and he thereon recommended me to lodge with the widow of a ship-captain who had been drowned in his service.”

  The Yeoman Adventurer

• “He called on a ship-captain and made his application, and when the captain asked for his recommendations he proudly drew out a tract and pointed to the word, "To Jacob Blivens, from his affectionate teacher.”

  Sketches New And Old

• “There is scarcely a merchant ship-captain on deep water, of whatever nationality, who does not find some acquaintance with it necessary, and it has become, in debased forms, the lingua franca of Oceanica and the Far East generally.”

  Chapter 12. The Future of the Language. 1. English as a World Language

• “Her husband had been a ship-captain or something, and when the tea was strong she would take snuff and tell the visitors about him and swear she had ever been true to his memory, though God knows all good-looking and clever widows are sorely tried in this scurvy world!”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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