How To Use Swain In A Sentence

Dance the coxswain was the first affected in that way, but after a few moments Mark felt that the poor fellow had been suffering in The Black Bar
Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
His strong able-bodied cockswain did good service in cheerfully carrying his much-loved Commander, and they managed to return to the boat, and brought the two bereaved and sorrow-stricken ladies back to the “Pioneer.” A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.

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The shift in position of the disaffected crew comes as opinion in the resort town seemed to be swinging behind the former coxswain.
Immediately after the first sea swept over our stern, I ordered the Boatswain to take sufficient men and shutters to close all windows in the after cabin.
Robert Meachem caught touchdown passes of 4 and 5 yards, and Jayson Swain hauled in another for 5 yards from Ainge. USATODAY.com - College Football - Air Force vs. Tennessee
George McSwain retired from the United States Navy as a Lt Commander. McSwain, George P. Jr.
In fact, the coxswain is the commander of the boat's crew. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont
Sunset is more than a thing of beauty for Swainson's thrushes and gray-cheeked thrushes.
William Howell, who had been a boatswain at Trafalgar and a sergeant at Waterloo, turns up in the journals years later, aged 55, on the Dryad, described as "very much dissipated and suffered much from stricture and perineal tumours". Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed
If I don't loosen his hide my name arn't what it is," growled the old boatswain; and he moved on, going close by Sydney, who stood listening with heavily beating heart till Barney had gone right up to the back of the house. Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea
This malconformation below did not, however, affect his strength -- it rather added to it; and there were but few men in the ship who would venture a wrestle with the boatswain, who was very appropriately distinguished by the cognomen of Jemmy Ducks. Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village. The Nigger of the Narcissus
Moreover the goodmen and swains of the said township were no ill folk, but bold of heart, free of speech, and goodly of favour; and the women of them fair, kind, and trusty. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
She and her colleagues collected a total of 30 individuals from among gray catbirds, Swainson's thrashes, and wood thrashes.
The Harper’s Weekly article did not have all the impact that Twain expected, partly due to the fact that his name was misprinted in the magazine’s table of contents as “Mark Swain.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
The sailors and coxswain running the whaleboat pushed off again to help the others towing away the wreckage.
The group (76 sq mi/197 sq km) consists of several major islands: Tutuila, the Manua group (Tau, Ofu, and Olosega), Rose and Sand Islands, and Swains Island. American Samoa
Attaches to the skeg and controlled by the coxswain to steer the boat by attached cables. Undefined
In the past, lifeboats largely depended on inshore fishermen to serve as coxswains and crew.
The boatswain's pipe is the 'modern day' descendant of the flutes used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans to convey orders to the oarsmen and galley slaves.
Carmen's thought was that, as she had feared, her unwonted swain had not recognized her. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
As the boatswain had said, she was about half a mile distant from us, and her mizenmast was over the side, still fast to the hull by the rigging, which had not been cut away. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
It seems likely that there was a minimum crew comprising master, mate, boatswain, at least two seamen and possibly one apprentice.
Dr. Carol Swain Lewis, an English teacher at Three Rivers who served as a judge, said it was "heart wrenching" to watch some of the students seemingly rush through the words, but she picked up that she had to keep a "stonewall" face on the panel, as to not make it visible that she was emotionally involved. SeMissourian.com Headlines
For total phenols, the leaves were air-dried, triturated and analysed using the method of Swain.
Instinctively, he put his hand out to get the coxswain to slow down. FLASH POINT
The endemic Ascension frigatebird (Fregata aquila), which subsists on food stolen from other birds, lives on Boatswain Island exclusively now. Ascension scrub and grasslands
_Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
Whereupon Jack, calling the coxswain up out of the boat alongside for the purpose of keeping an eye upon things generally, and seeing that no trickery was attempted, went forward to the fore deck, where about three hundred men, women, and children were drawn up in four lines or ranks, two on each side of the deck. The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
Keep up your spirits, dear Peggy," said Nell, in that sweet, cosy tone -- if we may say so -- which played such havoc in Bob's bosom at the time when she was known as the coxswain's bride. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
Everyone called the coxswain Adam, even his son and partner, Rufus the The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Hans Jacobs led the deck and rigging crew, as they safely lifted the AAV from the ocean and onto the ship's fantail.
And she does so in language that is routinely sublime; much of her prose jauntily gnaws on the page (Clinton "had not changed her name after marrying her big-pawed law school swain"; Rachel Maddow succeeded "thanks to a combination of brisk thinking and galumphing good cheer"), causing this reader to alternately grin and scurry to a dictionary. AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election
In, bows!" called the coxswain; and the two bowmen tossed and boated their oars, taking their stations in the fore-sheets, one of them with the boat-hook in his hand. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
Unlike the typical yacht, cabin cruiser, rowboat, kayak or canoe, shells have no cleats for attaching a rope, said one coxswain.
Goss PE, Reid CL, Bailey D, Dennis JW (1997) Phase IB clinical trial of the oligosaccharide processing inhibitor swainsonine in patients with advanced malignancies. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Each of the four participating countries entered thirteen rowers - five women, seven men and a coxswain.
The coxswain gets a situation report from the coastguard and picks his crew.
I do have to say that I loved the photo of the young lady with her 'swain' in his kilt..very very classy. A Linktastic Friday to End All Linktastic Fridays - A Dress A Day
He was sparingly fed upon weevilled biscuit and vile messes of tallowy rice, and to drink he was given luke-warm water that was often stale, saving that sometimes when the spell of rowing was more than usually protracted the boatswains would thrust lumps of bread sodden in wine into the mouths of the toiling slaves to sustain them. The Sea-Hawk
The spelling "cockswain" is standard for this text. Fighting for the Right
The seaman who was addressed by this dire appellation arose slowly from the place where he was stationed as cockswain of the boat, and seemed to ascend high in air by the gradual evolution of numberless folds in his body. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
When the tender is safely alongside the ship, climb aboard when the coxswain tells you to.
Swain quit, but he later made a comeback , Star.
At 11 in the morning the boatswain's mate would pipe ‘Up spirits,’ to cue the petty officer of the day to climb to the quarterdeck, where an officer would give him the keys to the spirit room.
The coxswain of the lifeboat said: ‘It started out as a basic tow job, but ended up as a full-scale rescue.’
Shrill trilling vocalizations are thought to be similar to the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
Accordingly, while Chips and Sails again undertook to climb the cliff and procure some bananas for breakfast, Cunningham and I, accompanied by the boatswain -- who seemed, after a good night's rest, to be little the worse for the happenings of the previous day -- agreed to wade off and board the wreck, with the view of securing such weapons and ammunition as were come-at-able, and had not been spoiled by sea water. Turned Adrift
The boatswain and master of the ship appear to say that it has been magically repaired and that the crew is safe.
Barmy British eccentricity rules the waves once again this Saturday as 16 straining, muscled hearties heave, two tiny coxswains fret and shout and, tradition assures us, Cockney urchins bedecked in blue scuffle alongside on the towpath scragging each other and hollering "C'mon Horx-ferd!" or "C'mon Cym-breege! Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating
Asked by Navy News if a sailor on Christmas Island now was to approach his ship, would he find a Naval police coxswain at the foot of the gangway waiting to check his bag?
The cornemuse of shepherds and rustic swains became the fashionable instrument, but as inflating the bag by the breath distorted the performer's face, the bellows were substituted, and the whole instrument was refined in appearance and tone-quality to fit it for its more exalted position. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Having completed my inspection of the decks, and satisfied myself that everything was all right, I called the boatswain aft to take temporary charge, and then entered the drawing-room, intending to pass through it to the door of Mrs Vansittart's cabin, to make my report. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
And because our ships be freighted by the great, it shalbe very needful that you do appoynt certaine to see the romaging of the ships, and to giue the master or Boatswaine, or him that will take vpon him to romage, a good reward for his labour to see the goods well romaged. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Museums don't want their augustness tainted by a succession of declining swains. Thanks, But No Thanks
His late father was a coxswain on a boat, his mother a factory worker.
Your captain said there were fifty men aboard, himself not included - his first mate, cook, navigator, purser, boatswain, carpenter, quartermaster, and forty-three sailors.
Egypt's coxswain, who also coxes his country's eight, propelled his boat into the lead.
He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously.
Even so, he did his best, becoming an expert coxswain and taking up Olympic weight-lifting.
Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
At the time, he was a Boatswain 3rd Class assigned to a minesweeper called the Exultant. Montauk Link to '92 Murder
There were basic engine controls and a wheel and the coxswain stood leaning against a padded backboard. LET NOT THE DEEP
A boatswain's mate on a ship's forecastle might not be paying attention to the color of the anchor chain paying out of the locker, or turn the friction brake in the wrong direction, with disastrous results.
As a coxswain, Presacan will be an essential part of her rowing team.
When Long-Tom Coffin goes down with his ship, the entire crew mourns the loss of their beloved cockswain, but none with more feeling than his commander. Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
The coxswains pushed off into the river and into safety.
Perhaps the boatswain missed the turn-off for Bangkok from the Mekong?
Former lifeboat coxswain Roland Stork was awarded the MBE for his services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
I was two stone lighter than the then coxswain ( "cox") and interchanged us, and thereafter my destiny was fixed; I eventually rose to be cox of the first eight, and while I did not exactly steer them to victory (in fact, in the year of my coxswainship we did, formally, just about as badly as it is possible to do!), I nevertheless feel we put up a good fight. Anthony J. Leggett - Autobiography
I dare say the sight of a swain in full kitchen-fury is anaphrodisiac.
The capstern went round with a merry tune -- the boatswain's whistle sounded shrilly along the decks with a magic effect -- the anchor was hove up -- the sails were let fall and but a few minutes had passed, after the captain gave the word of command, before the ship, under a wide spread of snowy canvas, was standing down the Solent towards the Needle passage. My First Cruise and Other stories
The wave tests the courage of the coxswain, while difficulties exams human's tolerance.
Of course the circumspection of suspicious swains had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the number of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to remind them they had heads as well, had kept her unacquainted with the supreme disciplines of her sex and age. The Portrait of a Lady
'tis suppos'd to have been in the Golden Age; or be may describe his own COUNTRY, but touching only what is agreable in it; or lastly, may depaint the Life of Swains exactly as it is, their Fatigues and A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)
The boat's coxswain will need to know where you are long before you surface.
Of course the circumspection of suspicious swains had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the number of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to remind them they had heads as well, had kept her unacquainted with the supreme discipline of her sex and age. The Portrait of a Lady
It's not often you get to witness a relaxed coxswain.
Watch them as they clasp hands and run down to the water's edge; see them prancing playfully where the waves die on the sand, while devoted swains launch the floating mattress upon which it is their custom to bask so picturesquely; see them now as they rush into the green waves and mount the softly rocking thing; observe the gleam of their white arms as, idly, they splash and paddle; note the languid grace of their recumbence: chins on hands, heels waving lazily in air; hear them squeal in inharmonious unison, as a young member of the American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
Is it not lucky for swains like you that the soldiers have quite forsworn sonneting? Letters on Literature
Down by the green meadows of Sudbury there dwelt a bewitchingly fair maiden, the musical dissyllables of whose name were often upon the lips of the young men in all the country round about, and whose smile could awaken voiceless poetry in the heart of the most prosaic Puritan swain. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
Lifeboat coxswain Gary Edwards praised the crew for their heroic work.
A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.
When I saw it I thought you had sent it back in a huff, tired out by my sauciness, and coldness, and delays, and were going to keep an account of dimities and sayes, or to salt pork and chronicle small beer as the dutiful wife of some fresh-looking, rural swain; so that you cannot think how surprised and pleased I was to find them all done. Selected English Letters
Less severe forms may befall the swain who keeps his arm on his date's chair back for an entire double feature, ignoring the growing pain and paresis. Archive 2005-03-01
The Navy coxswains boarded their respective Lampreys, and crewmen in the preparation room sealed the main hatches.
Prior to biotelemetry, the migration energetics of Swainson's thrushes and other small passerines could not be measured directly and had to be estimated.
` ` Push off the bow there! '' called the boatswain at the wheel. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
The boys instantly obeyed; but being closely pursued by the natives, the cockswain of the pinnace, to whom the charge of the boats was committed, fired a musket over their heads. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
It was a somewhat strange fancy, but the coxswain was a man who, having taken a fancy, was not easily turned from it. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
But he did not come: he was having a very serious talk with the Chinese admiral; at daybreak, however, the gig was reported in sight: Sharpe told one of the midshipmen to call the boatswain and man the side. Great Sea Stories
The coxswains would rotate as well with only the captains remaining the same.
Under the encouragement of their coxswain, Oliver Blach, they moved up to first, one seat at a time.
Ron Swain has never forgotten the years he spent as a conscript in the UK Armed Forces, his two-year stint as an ‘erk’ in the Royal Air Force in 1952-3 having been particularly eventful.
The beautiful flower girls were Mary Ann Lynagh and Serena Swaine whilst the pageboys were John Paul Swaine and Thomas Lynagh.
The tropic-bird, often called the boatswain, or phaëton, also climbs to great heights, and is seldom found out of these latitudes. White Shadows in the South Seas
‘You sound like a lovesick swain,’ she told him, and walked to the window.
As the coxswain was a steady fellow, and the wind was fair, I had no anxiety as to their finding their way. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific
The coxswain may ask you to swim away from the reef at this time.
First swore Arthur, noblest of kings; then swore earls, then swore barons; then swore thanes, then swore swains, that they nevermore the strife would arear. Roman de Brut. English
I just waited till the ship got to Christiania; and then, when all the students were at dinner, I found the big boatswain sitting on a beam that runs out over the water -- I forget what they call the beam, but it's at the bow of the ship. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
Touchwood had scarcely extricated himself from this impediment, and again commenced his researches after the clergyman, when his course was once more interrupted by a sort of pressgang, headed by Sir Bingo Binks, who, in order to play his character of a drunken boatswain to the life, seemed certainly drunk enough, however little of a seaman. Saint Ronan's Well
In Lycidas, the poet / swain in the poem, together with the author, anticipate ‘Pastures new’ on the morrow.
Abutilons; agapanthus; alstremeria; amaryllis; anemone; aralia; araucaria; auricula; azaleas; begonias; cactus; caladium; calceolaria; calla; camellias; cannas; carnations; century plants; chrysanthemums; cineraria; clematis; coleus; crocus; croton; cyclamen; dahlia; ferns; freesia; fuchsia; geranium; gladiolus; gloxinia; grevillea; hollyhocks; hyacinths; iris; lily; lily-of-the-valley; mignonette; moon-flowers; narcissus; oleander; oxalis; palms; pandanus; pansy; pelargonium; peony; phlox; primulas; rhododendrons; rose; smilax; stocks; sweet pea; swainsona; tuberose; tulips; violet; wax plant. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
The Swainson's Hawk is a slender buteo, similar in length to the Red-tailed Hawk, but with a longer wingspan and weighing about 20% less.
Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
There were basic engine controls and a wheel and the coxswain stood leaning against a padded backboard. LET NOT THE DEEP
He called the boatswain and went to the store-room. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
The coxswain sped his boat further on, arrows and bullets whizzing past their heads.
Old and blind, Juliette gave her a lock of Chateaubriand's hair when her eighty-year-old swain died.
The sailors and coxswain running the whaleboat pushed off again to help the others towing away the wreckage.
When the tender is safely alongside the ship, climb aboard when the coxswain tells you to.
He was a Navy assault coxswain aboard the USS Talladega during the Vietnam War.
The boatswain and master of the ship appear to say that it has been magically repaired and that the crew is safe.
Even so, Nichols, watching from the Caledonia's quarterdeck, was almost mesmerized by the lifeboat coxswain 's seamanship. LET NOT THE DEEP
Mr Easter said that previously coxswains had experienced difficulty in ship handling when using the ramp.
I can see no daring swain has ever ruffled your pretty feathers before. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
They live happily for some years, until Enoch is compelled through temporary adversity to go as boatswain in a merchantman.
Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
Let us slacken sail, my dears, as we have brought no cockswain. Springhaven
Won't you come down here, Mr.. Waters?" called the boatswain, looking up so suddenly that Mr. Travers's head bumped painfully against the side of the window. Captains All and Others
Even the coxswains seemed taller to me than I am - and I am not exactly short myself.
Even so, he did his best, becoming an expert coxswain and taking up Olympic weight-lifting.
Stand by, Drumbeat, I shall advise the coxswain ," Collier said diplomatically. LET NOT THE DEEP
I am a retired seaman and spent many a year sailing the world as a ship's boatswain.
It was in vain for this unwieldy wretch to allege his utter incapacity; the boatswain's driver was commanded to whip him up with the cat-and-nine-tails; the smart of this application made him exert himself so much, that he actually arrived at the puttock shrouds; but when the enormous weight of his body had nothing else to support than his weakened arms, either out of spite or necessity, he quitted his hold, and plunged into the sea, where he must have been drowned, had not a sailor, who was in a boat alongside, saved his life, by keeping him afloat till he was hoisted on board by a tackle. The Adventures of Roderick Random
The boat was manned by six sailors and a cockswain. What I Saw in California
When they shot around this, of course the coxswain was the only one who immediately saw the exciting scene presented. Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School
The main events finished on the predicted lines as the host's teams made it to all the finals of the four events - single and double sculls, coxswainless pairs and coxed fours.
President Swain was so galled that he made an elaborate reply to what he called misconception and misrepresentations. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
Silent Pete, the boatswain, as I later found out, tossed me a mop.
The boatswain and several seamen were killed by the Haytian fire. A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle
As they descended the stairs, Lord Pomfret emerged from the library, cramming cigarettes into his case with the dishevelling manipulation of the belated swain. Anthony Lyveden
Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
The boatswain tells them that the ship is in fine condition.
To the drum of a coxswain, international member paddlers of the Shanghai Shang Long Dragon Boat Team press forward on Dianshan Lake.
The natural product swainsonine is known to be a versatile glycosidase inhibitor having previously been used to study the active center of the. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
Take for instance, the boatswain's mate who needs to put that new coat of paint on the bulkhead.
She too was relieved of her duty as OOD by the command at the station and told to get underway becoming the third coxswain to arrive at the scene with a crew. Barbara L. Patton: Flight 1549 Responder Honored With Military Leadership Award
I called the boatswain's mate to _pipe all hands to bathe_. Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
As coxswain, I would steer, control the pace, and act as the eyes of the oarsmen, who were facing backward.
Tio år i Silicon Valley, och allt Murray Swain hade fått ut av det var en bilring, begynnande flint och ett liv som var ensamt och tomt och genomruttet. Boing Boing
Guided by coxswain, Pete Cipollone, the five foot one steerer used his international experience that stretches back to 1989 to keep his crew in front.
Although there can be little doubt that large canebrakes in bottomland forests provide prime breeding habitat for Swainson's Warbler, it is clear from the aforementioned examples that giant cane, per se, is not required.
The ship's only reported mishap came when a coxswain was hit in the neck (but not badly wounded) by a bullet ricocheting off a modern pentathlete's target.
During this time one of the wheelsmen got aft, securing a few pieces of bread, and came forward again with the mate and boatswain.
Nearly a year passed before she had a reply to her letters, which she addressed simply but hopefully to ‘William Swain, Esq., Sutters Fort, on American River, California’.
Some say they are old mates or boatswains watching to see that your job is done in a proper ship-shape way.
I think Paul Swain put it perfectly when he said that if the system was lax, the New Zealand First members would be the first to scream, whinge, and whine about it.
I thought a moment, and then I called the boatswain's mate to pipe _all hands to bathe_. Peter Simple
Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
Even so, Nichols, watching from the Caledonia's quarterdeck, was almost mesmerized by the lifeboat coxswain's seamanship. LET NOT THE DEEP
In his book A Place for Strangers, Tony Swain argued that Australian Aboriginal peoples did not fit this model.
The taxi they were travelling in was struck side-on at speed when Robinson failed to give way at the junction of Haworth Avenue and Swain House Road.
Inside the forecastle was the galley (or ship's kitchen) and quarters for such people as the boatswain, the carpenter, the cook and the master-archer. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
He's a boatswain's mate by trade but said life on the LCAC's small deck beats the duties of bigger vessels.
He served in the merchant marines as a boatswain and a machinist's mate when ships were going to places of interest.
He came hurrying aft, nearly tumbling once; while, left to his own power alone, the coxswain redoubled his efforts to keep down the water, and the tin baler went _scoop scroop, scoop scroop_, and _splash splash_, as he sent the water flying. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
Uliana Lopatkina is radiantly regal as the title heroine and Danila Korsuntsev is her dashing swain of a cavalier in 'Raymonda.' A Close Up View of the Kirov
Shannon, even though promised an ‘A’ school, has decided to remain in deck and become a boatswain's mate.
Three heats with the top three boats qualifying for the final left it up to the coxswains to call the race plan.
At 11 in the morning the boatswain's mate would pipe ‘Up spirits,’ to cue the petty officer of the day to climb to the quarterdeck, where an officer would give him the keys to the spirit room.
'Hold on, men, for your lives!' sang out the coxswains, and on came the hollow green sea, so far above their heads that it seemed as they gazed into its terrible transparency that the very sky had become green, and it broke into the lifeboat, hoisting her up to the vessel's foreyard, and then plunging her bodily down and down. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
Most bosses these days are Big Bad Swains, literally, not just metaphorically, nicking their top possie in the food chain.
Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_, and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of a ship. Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
In the event, for present purposes, there is a short answer to Mr. Swainston's point.
When markets are more volatile and the economy is troubled, boards of directors are more inclined to reach accommodations with short-term oriented, activist hedge funds," said Scott Barshay , managing partner in the corporate department of law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP's, which generally represents companies, not activist investors. Tough Times Help Activists
The little coxswain of the Atalanta was the last to step on board. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The earliest account of Swain's existence comes from a Noxian infirmary doctor's notes.
Original oil paintings and etchings by Frances Hodgkins, William Swainson and John Gully were heaped in piles on the floor.
The boatswain was a noisy, surly fellow, and on several occasions the captain had words with him about his disrespectful behaviour. The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers
At 2 a.m. the coastguard on Deal beach called the coxswain of the lifeboat, R. R.berts. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
Tio år i Silicon Valley, och allt Murray Swain hade fått ut av det var en bilring, begynnande flint och ett liv som var ensamt och tomt och genomruttet. Boing Boing
I go up to Swain's Boat House there that is being maintained and lived in by a private concessioner. Briefing By Vp Gore And Others On Earth Day
The next day, we all commenced in earnest our studies in navigation and seamanship, the naval instructor with his assistants working us up in our mathematics and imparting to us the elements of plane and spherical trigonometry; while the boatswain and his mates gave us practical lessons in the setting up of rigging and making of knots, so that there should be no chance of our mistaking a "sheepshank" for a "cat's paw," or a "Flemish eye" for a "grommet! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
What is this you have to complain of, Mr Trundle?" asked the first-lieutenant, as he stood at the capstern-head, with the enraged boatswain before him. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman
Monongahela includes Cranberry Glades, where you'll find Swainson's and hermit thrushes, mourning warbler, northern waterthrush, and swamp sparrow.
Prior to biotelemetry, the migration energetics of Swainson's thrushes and other small passerines could not be measured directly and had to be estimated.
Ah, it would make you feel a bit unked, my lad," said the boatswain, Fitz the Filibuster
Many a desperate swain would have risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand.
The Coxswain Authority is especially, ironically evident in basketball.
Your captain said there were fifty men aboard, himself not included - his first mate, cook, navigator, purser, boatswain, carpenter, quartermaster, and forty-three sailors.
The latter's unaffected elegance overrode the unfortunate aesthetics of Ms. Hynes's dull-purple, striped-shirt costume, which more befits a gangster than a swain on a lyric stroll with his lady love. A Company in Progress
Woodward, who retired as coxswain of Bembridge lifeboat in the summer, is also made an MBE.
We all loved Queen Aouda and her handsome and dashing swain, the hero of the piece, Phileas Fogg.
Aviation boatswain's mates wash down the flight deck aboard PCU Ronald Reagan following a test of damage control systems.
We saw several tropical birds, which the sailors call boatswains, in consequence of their having one long feather for a tail, which they term a marlin-spike — an iron instrument sharp at one end and knobbed at the other, used in splicing ropes, etc. A Sailor of King George
The coxswain is fitted snugly into the bow end of the boat steering and motivating the crew.

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