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  • Graybound beamed good-naturedly as he came to a stop in front of Rhodan and touched the peak of his spaceman's cap in a very unmilitary salute.

    Good Night, Mrs. Calabash 2010

  • April 24th, 2006 fic: The spaceman's idylls tell a foetid tale

    April 24th, 2006 2006

  • In "spaceman's" logic, it's simple, what's there to look forward to after baseball season?

    CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2008 2008

  • Enter Gort, the spaceman's obedient and all powerful robot, who promptly destroys all nearby weapons with his deadly eye beams.

    REVIEW: The Day The Earth Stood Still 2004

  • As always, Chekov began unconsciously tallying the errors in the fine details of this command scenario: no "spaceman's breeze" sighing down the empty corridors; no ghost frost hungrily licking the moisture from his lungs; no sirens, no screaming, no distant, desperate cries; no angelic spray of crystal dusting the space just outside a shattered hull; no ice-black eyes crying scarlet from the wrong side of an environmental suit's visor.

    The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000

  • For the first time in his life, he heard his father let out a string of spaceman's curses.

    Damia's Children McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • That sound gripped Farree and perhaps also the Lord-One Krip, for Farree noted that the spaceman's hands were opening and closing, where they hung by his sides, in time to that beat in words.

    Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

  • But the time will be long yet before a professed non-Christian, not to mention an outright unbeliever, gets a spaceman's berth.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • It was a spaceman's phrase that was untranslatable yet universally understood.

    The Emperor and the Monster Voltz, William 1977

  • From that moment on the spaceman's name for the new linear-drive ships was destined to be the 'sneakers.'

    Vagabond of Space Ernsting, Walter 1976

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