The bosun instantly laid hands on him and began to truss him up.
For a brief space there was silence; then the bosun said: "If we can not tell the way to the coast, neither can we know if we be going inland, and so we may stumble into the very danger we ought to avoid.
At this my fellow bandsmen abused me with a fine show of anger, the bosun in particular storming at me with a violence at which I had much ado not to smile.
The bosun said her course would bring her athwart ours, and I felt how barren our late victory would prove if she came to grips with us.
The maire, learning that I had returned, had followed me in, and hearing these words of English, and seeing Joe and the bosun untying the cords, he cried to me to know what I was about.
I did not blame or expostulate, and the wisdom of my course was vindicated on the third night, when, without a word being said, the bosun and Runnles took up their tools and set to work again.
Tis all very fine," said the bosun gloomily, "but what about the lingo, sir?
One night when Runnles and the bosun were at work, the chisel of the former met with no further obstacle.
It was the middle of the night, but all the men were awake, and in the excitement of the occasion the bosun uttered a shout of triumph, cursing himself immediately afterwards for his folly.
The bosun reloaded in all haste, and fired again when she could not have been above fifty yards distant.
All very well for you, sir," said the bosun bluntly, "but what about us tars?
And when I had let it down to its full length and drawn it up again, as yard after yard it came dry through my fingers I began to fear that the bosun was right.
Run forruds and tell the bosun I want the sail burton brought aft, and an up and down tackle fitted to the mainyard, if you are able to recollect all that?
In a bucket of water by the rail the bosun was bathing his battered features.
One tentative tug and haul and the bosun began to see that he would need all his strength for this man.
And so you set your bully bosun to do me--do me to death, if he had to.
And perhaps you think thebosun of an oil-tanker's goin' to hand a man a type-written letter every time he wants to have a word with him.
As Noyes was taking his position by the rail he guessed that the bosun must have just said something which pleased the crew, for most of them were still laughing heartily.
This man was no sooner aboard than the bosun began to crowd him.
They drew well back now; all but one, the crafty carpenter, crony of the bosun and eager tool of the captain.
And suddenly he loosed his grip, and the inert body of the bosun rolled down the tarpaulined hatch and onto the steel deck.
I've got influence in the office, and I think I could present the matter to the captain so that he will pull the bosun off.
What I want is clean decks, with all them there trash cleared away, and time for me and the bosun having the craft to ourselves just to go round and smell it all over before we begin.
Between us and the sheep paddock there were only wire fences, which he wouldn't take Bosun over, so he couldn't race away from the rest of us this time.
Dad didn't wait for any gates--Bosun can jump anything--and he just went straight across country.
The bosun and his worthies quickly gathered to remove the disgraceful signs of bunkering; they swept and garnished, the stylish shipping clerk came aboard with his final papers to see Hosea and Phillips.
A copy made its way aft to the bosun and his sea-dogs--the gentlemen who were announced in it as the Chain Lightning Gang.
Ben, I wish your opinion of that fat man, that new bosun Tom Ball.
That was Jan Dyckman over there, big and blond and mild, drinking rum with the round-headed greasy bosun Tom Ball.
Uncle Bosun told us how the preachers of all denominations, though they were half-starved in those days, had joined together and bought Uncle Jack from his owners and given him his freedom.
Uncle Bosun claimed royal blood, having descended from Uncle Jack, the son of a king, who was brought over from Africa in the last slaveship that deposited its cargo at Old Osborne on the James River.
Gwan aft; the old man 'll make ye a bosun like me; then come forrard and git yerself a brick agin' the time whin they wake up.
Get a brick out of the galley, and I'll make you a bosun without pay.
Pressed you are, my lads; andBosun Jones has sent you up some hot slops and soft tack.
Bosun Jones sat at the tiller side by side with the lieutenant, and scraps of their conversation reached Don's ears.
There was a rattling and rustling of stones and growth, and then the man at the entrance stooped down and held out his hands to assist some one to ascend, the result being that the broad heavy figure of Bosun Jones came into view.
Then preparations were made, arms charged, and Bosun Jones gave Don a friendly nod before turning to the captain.
The captain closed his glass with a loud snap, and walked away, while Bosun Jones stood with his brow knit and his lips compressed, gazing straight before him as the sun rose and shed a flood of light over the glorious prospect.
Bosun Jones has been down to the others, and he says these here may stop where they are.
To be sure: Bosun Jones," said the man, running to the trap and beginning to descend.
The Resolve careened dangerously into the wind, while a wave caught the waist of the ship and swept the bosun and his sounding line into the dark.
The bosun leaned back from the railing and shouted toward the quarterdeck.
He mechanically logged Hawksworth's chest in his account book and then signaled the bosun to stow the heavy wooden trunk into the pinnace.
The bosun did not see what happened after you fell--he picked you up and turned tail and ran for it.
Ruth beat you to the corner, and informed the waiting bosunof the failure.
The bosun and I had stepped in to wet our whistles, and, looking out of the open door, I was astounded to perceive our truant cookie pass by.
He had lost track of time; he felt he had always been sitting here by the edge of the pit; he had forgotten all about the other Japs, all about the bosun and Ruth.
The bosun is a great hand to break in a greenhorn.
The bosun paused at the poop break, snorted into his large red handkerchief, and pretended to inspect the drawing of the mainsail.
I dodged across to the wharf where the bosun and, I thought, Ruth, were awaiting me in the brig's dingey.
She had left the bosun in charge of the boat and taken up a position where she could watch my operations.
Why, the bosun and the boys must still be quiet in the hold, and Yip's plot was still a-borning.
I have just time to get my coffee and relieve the bosun by midnight.
So, while Ruth sought refuge in the automobile, the bosun lay in wait for you by the corner.
Then the bosunhad the rifle and was swinging it, clubbed, the center of a mêlée.
During the journey, the bosun communicated his news.
The bosun was occupied at the moment with a nickel poker machine.
Jackie-Jackie, a Tongan sailor of experience, served as a sort of bosun and semi-second mate over the mixed Kanaka crew.
By mid-afternoon, in a huge sea, with the wind after its last shift no more than a stiff breeze, the Tongan bosun sighted a schooner bottom up.
The bosun pushed the ventilator grill away and jumped out of the shaft even before it hit the carpet.
Ah, me," said Nestir as the bosun drew back from the thrust, "who would have thought that I would be trapped by a religious fanatic?
The bosun raised his head from his chest and shook the hair out of his face.
He interrupted the eloquence of his bosunas soon as he had finished his drink.
The bosun came up again and reported thirty miles from noon.
I suppose you know the bosun was carried overboard when that ship hit us," Mr. Spokesly remarked in a conversational tone as the captain approached in his stroll.
So Mr. Spokesly found him congenial, a garrulous monster of unintelligent probity, and it occurred to him suddenly to enlist the bosun in this enterprise.
The bosun and a couple of seamen came out and began bending the heavy fall about the bollards near the standing rigging.
The bosun was honest, but he had been born without the divine gift of a bushel to conceal the blaze of his probity.
The bosunstarted back as though in horror at these words.
The years had brought a good deal of sober sense to Bosun and Monarch, but motors were still unfamiliar objects on Billabong.
I couldn't ride Bosun if I did, and that would be too awful to think about.
Then suddenly swooped down the immense black fiend of the storm, catching, as the Bosun put it, the ship "in her ball-dress.
The seaman addressed asBosun took a pipe from his pocket, marched round the couple prepared to dance, saying "A floor, a floor, for the lovely Nell and our gallant Capt.
He drew Nelly from the burning barn, and they hurried on to Mousehole, where they found the Bosun and boat's crew waiting for them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bosun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
