sea-captain

He was a white-bearded sea-captain, too old for service, who had learned that the only way to live on comfortable terms with his asthma was on Hikueru.

THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI 2010

Some sea-captain recognized the Energon as the yacht Scud, once owned by Merrivale of the New York Yacht Club.

Goliah 2010

Here, Sitka Charley, the "master of reality" (as depicted in "The Sun-Dog Trail"), whose wisdom of the trail transcends such matters as where, how, and when to travel in the Yukon country, and how to survive, is on trail with the former sea-captain Clove Eppingwell and his wife, a white man known only as "Joe," and the Indians Kah-Chucte and Gowhee.

“. . .the eternal mystery of woman.” 2008

He says his political conscience was initially awakened by the arrest, when he was 11, of his sea-captain father on suspicion of espionage.

Joachim Gauck: the dissident hero who holds the destiny of Germany in his hands 2010

It was getting ecstatic reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, and best of all, the fledgling Book of the Month Club had announced its March choice – "Cradle of the Deep," the story of a girl raised on board a clipper ship in the China seas by her sea-captain father.

Queen of the Fabricated Memoir 2008

It was the particular desire of the Doctor that his daughter should be committed to the care of that gentleman, from the time of her leaving the shores of Britain, till the intended marriage ceremony was duly performed on her arrival in India; a charge that was frankly undertaken by the generous sea-captain.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

“What art thou?” asked Ala al-Din, and the other answered, “I am a sea-captain and mean to carry thee to my sweetheart.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

On that day, and at that place, there came to the King, Fitz-Stephen, a sea-captain, and said:

A Child's History of England 2007

Dumay had received from a sea-captain just arrived from the China Seas the following letter containing the first news of his patron and friend, Charles Mignon: —

Modeste Mignon 2007

All my things have been sold; and he tells me that he has taken the advice of an old sea-captain and spent three thousand francs on a commercial outfit of European curiosities which will be sure to be in demand in the Indies.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007