post-captains

Fitz – Heehaw, is sure of a place in Parliament; your younger sons, the De Brays, will kindly condescend to be post-captains and lieutenants-colonels, and to represent us in foreign courts or to take a good living when it falls convenient.

The Book of Snobs 2006

In the course of the afternoon, all parties, as it may be supposed, emerged upon deck again, and Miss Fanny and her mamma began walking the quarter-deck with a quick pace, like a couple of post-captains.

The Kickleburys on the Rhine 2006

Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains, with transit-telescope, barometer and concentrated soup and pemmican; no Demosthenes, no

Representative Men 2006

I hope the post-captains did not know that Sir Richard was Den's uncle, and that

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

Judges, and post-captains of the Royal Navy, perhaps as a reminder of their great responsibilities, occasionally receive communications of this nature.

A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

Yet occasionally, when two or three post-captains, contemporaries and fleet-mates, gathered here to smoke after-dinner cigars, the host would unlock the glass-topped table, select some object from his miscellany, and hold it up with a "D'you remember ----?"

A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

Middies grew into post-captains, and admirals into dotards during that prolonged struggle.

Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

Harsh old flag-officers, grave post-captains, young lieutenants, all were roaring like schoolboys breaking up for the holidays.

Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

Harsh old flag-officers, grave post-captains, young lieutenants, all were roaring like schoolboys breaking up for the holidays.

Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

Middies grew into post-captains, and admirals into dotards during that prolonged struggle.

Through the Magic Door Arthur Conan Doyle 1894