I told Reginald my poor husband's expression of face is altered by his affliction, and that he takes himself for a common sailor, and has his medal still round his neck.
Alfred darted out and scoured the town; he asked everybody if they had seen a tall gentleman dressed like a common sailor.
Green now set the police to scour the town for a gentleman and a common sailor in company, offered a handsome reward, and went to bed in a small inn, with David's clothes by the kitchen fire.
I became a common sailor--I and my servant and friend, Michael Clones.
His wages are usually double those of a common sailor, and he eats and sleeps in the cabin; but he is obliged to be on deck nearly all his time, and eats at the second table, that is, makes a meal out of what the captain and chief mate leave.
After a few months, weary of the monotonous life, she obtained a discharge, and shipped herself, as a common sailor, on board a vessel bound for the West Indies.
Lolonois, disguised as a common sailor, was severely wounded.
Here he enlisted as a common sailor on board a pirate ship, and we hear of him no more.
Here he lived a vagabond life, sometimes hunting, and again engaged as a common sailor in the commerce of the islands.
The life of a common sailor in a government ship he found to be something different from what he had imagined, when, acting under a momentary excitement, he was so mad as to enlist in the service.
From Norfolk, Mr. Clifford received a brief note written by his son, upbraiding him for having defeated the application to the department, and avowing the fact that he had gone to sea in the government service, as a common sailor.
That is not the way for a common sailor to address an officer.
But you can't expect a common sailor like me, who's a bit handy with his hammer and saw, to be up to all the dodges of an educated young gent like you as has sarved his time aboard the Bry-tannia in Dartmouth Harbour.
Beg pardon, sir, but I am not a common sailor; I am a hartisan.
But he looks like a common sailor; not a bit like a cook.
Don't you think yourself fit for anything better than a common sailor?
It's exactly the same thing so far as you are concerned, and there is a greater reason for Harry, for he is alone in the world and he is not used to hard work of any kind, and it is cruel to make a common sailor of him.
After this, in a state of intoxication, he re-entered the Navy at Pensacola as a common sailor.
Notwithstanding his cultivated mind and intellectual powers, which should have placed him in a high position in society, he appeared satisfied with his condition, and aspired to no loftier sphere than that of a common sailor.
Accordingly, prompted by necessity and by a youthful love of adventure, he shipped as a common sailor in the brig, Pilgrim, bound for the California coast.
My design is, and it is this which has induced me to publish the book, to present the life of a common sailor at sea as it really is,--the light and the dark together.
In the following pages I design to give an accurate and authentic narrative of a little more than two years spent as a common sailor, before the mast, in the American merchant service.
He had a pretty manner for a common sailor, didn't he?
Too bad he's only a common sailor--such a prince gone wrong!
Beauty so striking will be admired, even in a common sailor.
I was frightened to death when I thought of General Meade; I was horrified at the picture stamped on my memory of his daughter, trusted to my care, smiling up with that unmistakable expression into the eyes of a common sailor.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common sailor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
