Long after the last hatch-cover had been placed the boatswain continued to inspect, going over the deck from bow to stern to see that every movable thing was lashed fast.
Clear of the engine-room, the boatswain turned toward the bow.
It don't take no eyes at all to see clean to the back of a Scotch boiler," the boatswain had told the chief engineer.
He called the boatswain and went to the store-room.
The sails were furled, the boats lowered down, the boatswain squared the yards from the jolly-boat ahead.
The boatswain made his appearance with his right arm in a sling.
Mr Simple, a boatswain is an officer, and is entitled to a sword as well as the captain, although we have been laughed out of it by a set of midshipman monkeys.
That I will stand the risk of with pleasure," observed the boatswainto me, "for the sake of being considered a gentleman.
Who ever heard a boatswain use such language--'precarious and not at all permanent?
I should like to be boatswain of her, Mr Simple; that is, with Captain Savage, for I will not part with him.
Just at this moment, the boatswain came down the rigging.
Well," said he, "that Mr Chucks appeared to be a very good boatswain in his way, if he could only have kept his rattan a little quiet.
That he was the notorious Black Boatswain of whom I had heard so much, I had no doubt whatever; and I felt not a little vain of my own courage and presence of mind as I saw myself so possessed and collected in such company.
Yes, these were the hidden treasures for which the Black Boatswain of Anticosti had endured the tortures of the burning iron and the steel, the terrible agonies of the flesh pincers, and the slow, lingering pains of paralysis.
The name, coupled with the place, Guajuaqualla, left no doubt upon my mind that they were talking of no other than the Black Boatswain himself.
I repeated the word over and over a couple of times, and then remembered it was the journal in which the reward for the Black Boatswainhad been offered.
The boatswainwas summoned, and Se¤or Montefalderon repeated in this man's presence the instructions that he thought it necessary for the adventurers to follow, in order to secure the prize.
Rose heard Mulford's explanation favourably, as indeed she heard most of that which came from him, but did not renew the discourse, Spike's conference with the boatswain just then terminating.
When on the second thwart from aft, and about to take her seat, the boatswain cast a look behind him, and Spike put the helm down.
The boatswain had already erected a sort of a tent, on a favourable spot, using some of the old sails that had covered the flour-barrels, not only for the walls, but for a carpet of some extent also.
Spike saw that a collision of some sort or other must speedily occur, and he determined to take the boatswain with him, and descend into the cabin of the schooner in quest of the gold.
It was quite late in the afternoon, when the boatswain and his mate piped "all hands up anchor!
Still, she stayed beautifully, and both Spike and the boatswain shook their heads, as they saw her coming into the wind with her sails all lifting and the sheets flowing.
When the story had again been told, Spike and his boatswain went on board the schooner, and, undressing, they prepared to descend into the cabin.
Spike and his boatswain differed as to the place which had just been described to them, as men will differ even in the account of events that pass directly before their eyes.
Long before the people "knocked off" for their dinners, the arrangements were completed, and the boatswain was ready to take his leave.
The boatswain now proposed to take a jamming hitch with a rope around the neck of the bag, which was long enough to admit of such a fastening, and then to apply their united force.
But the head of the boatswain being under water at the time, the admonition was thrown away.
A poor fellow attempted to slide down the falls from the davits, but the boatswain pushed them to one side, so that he would have fallen into the water if he had tried to jump.
I suppose that the boatswain must have acted according to his light, but Jack Baldwin, who sat looking on without speaking, should have seen that the man was taken aboard.
So the boatswain came, and in a short time they had lashed Tom’s arms and legs so that he could not move.
The boatswain was amongst them, and he asked him to join them, as they needed an officer.
I remember that the boatswain chewed at his quid of tobacco as though he was starving; but he did not speak a word.
As soon as the boat was in the water, it began drawing under the channel of the ship, and was in great peril of being stove, but the boatswain and two others got out oars, and shoved her off.
The first lieutenant will introduce him to his new messmates, and secure him a favourable reception," said the captain as the boatswain withdrew.
As the boatswain gave the word, every hand was held up; to all these men death was welcome at the end of two or three days' change of life, abundance of food, and comparative freedom.
Davis's boatswain attending him, had an opportunity of visiting all parts of the house, and observing their strength.
At the time agreed upon, the long boat of the other ship came, and Avery hailing her in the usual manner, he was answered by the men in her, "Is your drunken boatswain on board?
The boatswain crawled out again into the strength of the wind; not because he much expected to find anybody, he said, but just to get away from "that man.
The boatswain could get in, therefore, without coming out on deck at all; but to his great surprise he found he could induce no one to help him in taking off the manhole cover.
The boatswain was pleasantly surprised--his impression being that everybody on deck must have been washed away a long time ago.
Jukes understood the boatswain to splutter that the bridge ladders were gone.
The boatswain glared: the ship lurched to starboard, and a great howl came from that mass that had the slant of fallen earth.
The boatswain had been keeping up a gruff talk, but a more unreasonable lot of men, he said afterwards, he had never been with.
The boatswain tried to explain; the sounds of a great scuffle surprised them: and the mighty shocks, reverberating awfully in the black bunker, kept them in mind of their danger.
The boatswain had some means, and made a point of alluding to them frequently.
Meanwhile, the boatswain stood solemnly on the other side with a green bag in his hand.
The sight of the quarter-master rigging his gratings, the boatswain with his detestable green bag of scourges, the master-at-arms standing ready to assist some one to take off his shirt was not calculated to allay his apprehensions.
Mates and boatswain work furiously, for the skipper's eye is searching everywhere, and the skipper's angry words cut the delinquent like the lash of a well-aimed whip.
The boatswainforward has the worst of it, for the restive sheets and headsails won't come to trim without a fight when it's breezing up and seas are running.
With the thunder of her canvas, Coming on the wind again, I can hear the Shadow Boatswain Piping to his shadow men.
You may know her By her clean run aft; and, then, Don't you hear the Shadow Boatswain Piping to his shadow men?
Wondering, as that far sea-cry Comes upon the wind again, And you hear the Shadow Boatswain Piping to his shadow men.
There's a call, as when a white gull Cries and beats across the blue; That must be the Shadow Boatswain Piping to his shadow crew.
Tell the boatswain to set taut the chain on the other side at the Alligator's mouth!
Young gentlemen, tell the boatswain to turn the hands to, and have the barge manned.
Mr. Martin, tell the boatswain to call all hands to furl awnings.
The boatswain piped, the marines presented arms, the drum gave three quick rolls, and the commodore went over the gangway, preceded by his companion.
They rowed a mile beyond Woolwich, approaching two or three ketches, when the boatswain doubted whether any of these were the one he had provided to furnish them.
It was weeks after our party’s return to Cape Town that Colonel Zebulon Pike brought me two splendid stuffed specimens of the boatswain bird, the rarest of the gull tribe.
There was not a boatswain bird within fifty miles of where we had been, and the specimens had evidently been cured for years.
Even thus reinforced, it soon became apparent that a heavy task lay before us, and it was not until the boatswain was piping to breakfast that the first chest was successfully broken out and raised to the surface.
This cool behaviour on his part nettled me still more; and at length I directed the boatswain to pass the word for Joe to come aft.
But I do not see that he hath any command over the seamen, he being affronted by three or four seamen before my very face, which he took sillily, methought; and is not able to do so much good as a good boatswain in this business.
When I asked the boatswain in the raft case if he expected the boy to quit, he said: "Quit!
There is a chief boatswain in the navy who had the duty of taking a ship's steamer with a crew to look after the ship's target at battle practice.
We make sail and stand out of the harbour to the west, intending to bury our chief mate and boatswain in deep water, out of sight of these cannibal regions.
At last it is decided that one alone shall go, and Bent is instructed to tell him, that unless the boatswain instantly returns alive and unhurt, the other three shall be hung up.
Therefore that they should be securely chained was the first and most important thing to which the boatswain of a galley and his mates had to see.
The doctor gave the boatswain in a few words an account of their finding him.
A trip was made to Johnson Island; it was merely an unimportant, arid, barren island; but the old boatswain was no less proud of giving his name to a few desolate rocks.
The boatswain crept behind a hummock which hid him entirely from the sight of the bear, who stayed in the same place, continually sniffing the air.
That night they endured the horrors of hunger; only the doctor and the boatswain were able to temper them with a little hope.
Illustration] The boatswain remained at Fort Providence alone, but not idle.
The boatswain was to remain at Doctor's House; in a word, to guard the house.
The doctor made a sign to the old boatswain to keep silent.
There was no lack of things to do, but the boatswain worked with the ease of a sailor, who has generally a smattering of all trades.
The mention of such a foolhardy attempt made theboatswain shrug his shoulders.
In short, the doctor and boatswain had found supplies for three weeks at the outside, and with the strictest economy; that was not much for them in their state of exhaustion.
Boatswain Johnson seems to me to reason well," answered the doctor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boatswain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
