ship-captains

At least, this is what Northern ship-captains and farmers contrive to do, in their way, with numbers of coal-black negroes, and we have no doubt that the soldier-planter will manage, 'somehow,' to get out a cotton-crop, even with the aid of hired negroes!

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

And well it was that they satisfied him to stay; for on that day this youth went without his dinner because he had no cent in his pocket to buy it, and ship-captains refuse to assist all such as lie under that unhappy cloud.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

La Salle and the ship-captains, who could not endure his haughty manners, quarreled incessantly.

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

Not unfrequently ship-captains tell us that they have seen birds of prey, hawks, and owls, appearing on the masts on such occasions in the company of swallows, goldfinches, and chaffinches; and yet the cruel birds never touched the innocent ones.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

I felt it to be "the proudest moment of my life," as ship-captains say, when they return thanks for the silver teapot richly chased with nautical emblems, presented by the passengers saved from the wreck, as a token of gratitude for the hencoops thrown overboard by the manly commander.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

Boake Valkanhayn and several other ship-captains joined them.

Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934

Indies unless armed ready to engage all comers, and many ship-captains renounced trade altogether for the more profitable and exciting occupation of privateering.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

A compliment from a teacher, on a tract, had never failed to move the tenderest emotions of ship-captains, and open the way to all offices of honor and profit in their gift it never had in any book that ever he had read.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

But, coming back to Captain Froud and his fixed idea of never disappointing ship - owners or ship-captains, it was not likely that I should fail him in his ambition -- to satisfy at a few hours 'notice the unusual demand for a French-speaking officer.

A Personal Record 1919

So the ship-captains whom Dom Manuel first approached preferred not to venture among the Red Islands.

Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918