How To Use Midshipman In A Sentence
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As an undergraduate I had a number of little jobs, as a waiter and barman, and I enrolled as a midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve at weekends and holidays.
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His interviews became notorious, often pitting a four-star admiral against a midshipman or junior officer in his twenties.
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He joined the navy as a midshipman when he was 16, and two years later sailed with Captain Bligh on the expedition to carry breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies.
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What do you mean?" asked the midshipman right before his head dropped heavily to the table, his last breath pressing windily out of his lungs.
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There she met a Naval Academy midshipman from Texas.
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Two German ironclad warships were rumored to be skulking nearby, and Deryn was meant to be watching for signals from Midshipman Newkirk, who was dangling from a Huxley ascender two thousand feet above them.
Behemoth
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Davis left his studies at Harvard to join the navy as a midshipman in 1817.
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Exacerbating the situation is the fact that cadets and midshipman who are children of career military parents are present in record numbers at the service academies.
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We also read an article about how George Washington almost became a midshipman in England's Royal Navy in his early years (his mother wouldn't let him).
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After refitting, we went for a cruise to the East Indies, where we found the new admiral who had come out to replace Admiral Hope; and, in the spring of the following year, having served for eighteen months as a naval cadet, I was promoted to the rank of midshipman, the captain and first lieutenant, having convinced themselves of my competency by asking me how I would manage to get a six-pounder to the top of a perpendicular hill, my answer to which question was that I would head it up in a cask and "parbuckle" it up.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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Horatio Hornblower begins his saga as a young midshipman in the British navy, during the Napoleonic era.
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He had regained his forward motion when Midshipman James, one step above the most junior midshipman, tripped over his own feet leaving Pellew's cabin.
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My wife's grandfather went through the battle of Jutland as a sixteen-year-old midshipman.
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He spent most of the war training on HMS Worcester, based at Greenhithe on the Thames, but in March 1918 he was drafted into the Royal Naval Reserve as a midshipman.
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When a young midshipman asked for her papers, Tatiana showed him her Red Cross travel document from the Soviet Union.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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Pierre Loti was the nom de plume of Julian Viaud, a young French midshipman who, in 1872, came upon a beauty named Rarahu bathing in a sylvan pool behind Papeete.
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He transferred shortly afterwards to the Dragon as an able seaman, but in 1761 he joined the Arrogant as a midshipman.
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Mr. Caton is violently carried off, locked up in a horrible stinking room, prevented from seeing his friends; after a day or two he is forced on board a tender, where Mr. Tripp, a midshipman, behaves with humanity, but the Captain and Lieutenant outvie each other in brutality; Captain Hamilton behaving as an ‘enraged partisan.’
Castle Rackrent
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A Midshipman could be disrated at any time by the Captain, and thus served entirely at his pleasure.
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Training of midshipman is already being provided at the U.S. Naval Academy and in a few ROTC units.
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His interviews became notorious, often pitting a four-star admiral against a midshipman or junior officer in his twenties.
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Many details were quite overlooked that night, which was a fortunate circumstance for Miss Helen Doolittle, and her hard-hit midshipman, who had "frenched" out of Bancroft not only with mamma's knowledge, but with her coöperation.
Peggy Stewart at School
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He entered the navy at 13 as a midshipman and soon demonstrated that despite enthusiasm for the service, his talents were limited and his manners rough.
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The boat then sheered off into safety and lay to its oars, a young midshipman, sitting in the stern and holding the yoke-lines, in charge.
The Lost Poacher
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He entered the navy a midshipman in the era of cannon balls and oak hulls powered by sail, and retired as admiral of a fleet of steel, powered by steam, that fired huge shells thousands of yards.
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A midshipman, he arrived aboard the Dordrecht serving as an arquebusier.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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His father was an American, an Annapolis man, a midshipman in the War of the Rebellion, and in 1866 a lieutenant of the Suwanee which coaled at an island in the Pacific.
“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
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He entered the navy a midshipman in the era of cannon balls and oak hulls powered by sail, and retired as admiral of a fleet of steel, powered by steam, that fired huge shells thousands of yards.
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She's a college student who's also a midshipman in the Reserve Officer Training Corps on campus.
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The young hero has an inauspicious beginning, turns it to his benefit through pluck and luck, then begins the cursus honorum of the sea: sailor, midshipman, lieutenant, captain, admiral, commemorative 30th-anniversary boxed set, remainder pile, deliquescence.
At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line
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‘I started out as a midshipman, the lowest rank on board a ship, and worked my way up to lieutenant three years later,’ he told the Daily Dispatch on board the ship this week.
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He was fifteen and a midshipman on the HMS Boyne, Admiral Neale's flagship.
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He joined the Navy as a midshipman at the age of 14, and fought in the battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar.
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He joined the Navy and became a midshipman in 1915 on the ship HMS Collingwood.
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Two blasts of the whistle fetches the watch out, and "Stand by topsail halyards," "In inner jib," sends one hand to one halyard, the midshipman of the watch to the other, and the rest on to foc'stle and to the jib downhaul.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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With only eight marines, a Navy midshipman, and 100 mercenaries, Eaton left Alexandria, Egypt, to restore Hamet Karamanli to the throne of Tripoli and overthrow his usurper brother.
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It's the leader of the free world reaching past his Secret Service protectors to shake the furry hoof of a midshipman dressed as Bill, the Navy goat mascot.
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After sea duty, the Navy recognized Don's promise by sending him as a midshipman to Columbia University in New York City.
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We proposed to make it a Midshipman Easy duel, a three-cornered fight -- Brothers Homan and Benson vs. the "Apostle," but they wiggled in and they wiggled out, they temporized and tergiversated until we saw there wasn't an ounce of fight in the whole Prohibition crew -- that, after their flamboyant defi, we couldn't pull 'em into a joint debate with a span of mules and a log-cabin.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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A midshipman in the U.S. Navy at sixteen, young Porter commanded his first ship at thirty-three during the Mexican War.
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A midshipman, he arrived aboard the Dordrecht serving as an arquebusier.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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A Midshipman fired a pistol into an enemy gunport.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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The callosity of Smollett's midshipman, who spat in the pressed man's face when he dared to complain of his sufferings, and roughly bade him die for aught he cared, was characteristic of the service.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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If the Midshipman has not been granted Advance Standing by the beginning of the junior year, he or she will be disembroiled from the program.
