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  • The screen now showed a jowl-faced gray-haired man with commodore's insignia.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Now the commodore's curiosity looked about ready to sit up and beg.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • "No, I think he intended to put on the commodore's tunic himself," Campbell said, a trace of disgust seeping through his rigid control.

    Angelmass Zahn, Timothy 2001

  • "Well, I sort of cheated, I guess," Scott volunteered in response to the commodore's complaint.

    The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000

  • Chekov felt the commodore's eyes track him as he took his seat.

    The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000

  • When his comments only seemed to amuse Coan the more, he turned away from her again, grumbling, "And my cadet bloc monitor is a closet sadist that somebody gifted with commodore's bars."

    The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000

  • Perhaps that explained the commodore's hounding—not jealousy or rancor toward Chekov, but toward Kirk, with Chekov the only convenient repository.

    The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000

  • Thus handsomely winding up his reply, he soothed and contented Nelson; who drawing up a memorandum of the comparative force of the two parties for his own satisfaction, assured Lindholm that, if the commodore's statement had been in the same manly and honourable strain, he would have been the last man to have noticed any little inaccuracies which might get into a commander-in-chiefs public letter.

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • He left the commodore's office feeling uneasy and frustrated.

    Web of the Romulans M. S. Murdock 1990

  • Kirk could tell from the commodore's expression the thought had occurred to him, but he was forced to carry out official directives.

    Web of the Romulans M. S. Murdock 1990

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