As the crew understood the theory of storms, they of course knew that when there is a tempest at sea it is sent by God, because he is offended by some one on board the vessel.
Before thecrew commenced casting lots to find out, they had cast lots of their wares overboard, so that when the lot fell on Jonah it was much lighter than it would have been had the lot fallen upon him during his sleep.
The crew of the launch hailed the Spanish seamen lining the gunwale of the supply ship, and to the routine questions came the usual answers: Friends from New Spain--come aboard.
Not until then did a strange crew swarm out from hiding and level their guns at the chests of the men in the launch.
The work done already by the life-boat men had been a good one; and it had not been very easy, either, for they had brought the crew and passengers safely through the boiling surf, and landed them all upon the sandy beach.
Part of them consisted of a hearty breakfast,--fresh bluefish, broiled; and while he was eating it the crew of the yacht made a deep hole in what remained of their own supplies.
Once Zimbardo had asserted his control over the organization, the asteroid and its crew had rapidly become an extension of his formidable personality.
There was no logical reason for it, but the Starmen wouldn't quibble with the crew members.
I told you that those ships were defeated and their crew sent back to wherever they came from with their tail between their legs!
As the workcrew on the asteroid was able to produce sufficient sheathing, power, and propulsion units, a space crew was assigned the task of outfitting the asteroids that Lurton had previously chosen.
The Starmen, like the crew from Z25, were passing time as they entered the third day of their captivity aboard the Silver Cloud.
Now in contact with G670," uttered Zimbardo, referring to the asteroid that Crass and his crew had rigged.
She is so big that surprisingly little motion is noticeable at sea, though waves wash freely over forecastle and quarter-deck, contracting the space available for the exercise and training of the large fighting crew she carries.
The real race of wreckers has died out--that is to say, the cold-blooded wretches who would lure a ship ashore, and then murder the crew by way of precaution before proceeding to plunder the cargo.
It is a far cry from Clovelly to the deep gorge of Welcombe: a good way even to Harty Point, with whose lesser altitude the crew of the Rose compared the towering heights above the mangrove swamps of Higuerote.
Even near a planet, only a small part of the crew can be allowed shore leave at any one time.
Since I expect the crew to remain aboard, that means they will be killed.
Although he did serve aboard Medart's cruiser, he was not very familiar with the Command Crew or Ranger.
Jamar had surpassed himself; the only thing left was to alert his crew and passengers for immediate takeoff.
That is why the whole crew must be informed of those facts.
She might as well brief all of us at once; can you have the Command Crew here in, say, an hour?
As soon as you have Chang in orbit, Ranger Medart and I, along with any crew members who have mind shields and are willing to volunteer, will take a lander down and attempt to take Thark in the act of invading the Palace.
The rumors would have tapered off eventually, after giving the crew something a bit different to talk about for awhile.
And get used to the title; I've called a Command Crew meeting for 1400, so you can brief them.
At any rate, I want a conference with you, her, and Chang's Command Crew later today.
This ship has a crew of approximately two thousand, does it not?
Kanchatka-class courier refitted as a yacht, crew of nine plus pilot.
All rose, Hobison and the Command Crew bowing before they left.
The day ended with a sudden trembling of the ship, as if straining at anchor; but the crew was again performing fantasia, and the earthquake or sea-quake rolled unheededly away.
There was only one, instead of three or four cooks; and the unfortunate had to fill a total of one hundred and thirty-five mouths, the crew included, three times a day.
The crew sat huddled together in a place of safety, terror written in every line of their brown faces.
The rest of thecrew were squatting about the deck in various attitudes of perfect laziness.
It was here the crew showed their superiority over their enemies, and slowly but surely began to drive them back.
The crew and engines were accommodated aft, this disposition of the weight facilitating the skimming action on which the speed of the vessel depended.
We can't go across country while Espejo and his crew are still at large.
Astounded the reeling deck he paces, Mid hurrying forms and ghastly faces;-- The whole Ship's crew are there.
Rain in torrents play'd, As when at sea a wave is borne to Heaven, A watery spire, then on the crew dismay'd Of reeling ship with downward wrath is driven.
Putting on the dress of a sailor, she joined the crew of a fine ship, commanded by one of her brothers; and in an engagement with the French, she fought most gallantly for upwards of six hours.
At last the vessel was captured by the British fleet, and the crew were taken prisoners on board the "Queen Charlotte" to be examined by the admiral, Lord Howe.
Only one of the gigs is being manned, sir," I added; "the crew of the other most likely going round by shore to cut us off.
I never heard of a crew that meant to mutiny but what showed signs before, for any man that had an eye in his head to see the mischief and take steps according.
I had heard it on the voyage more than once and remembered these words: "But one man of her crew alive, What put to sea with seventy-five.
Well, sir, I thought I had only found a cook, but it was a crew I had discovered.
He's about the last of this crewfor that, I take it.
Silver was the captain, and a mighty rebellious crew he had of it.
This crew has tipped you the black spot in full council, as in dooty bound; just you turn it over, as in dooty bound, and see what's wrote there.
I believe he's a good seaman, but he's too free with the crewto be a good officer.
They was the roughest crew afloat, was Flint's; the devil himself would have been feared to go to sea with them.
The little English crewentered the town, and stocked up with bread, bacon, and wine, which they enjoyed to the full after many months of famishing.
Porter ordered them down to capture the imprisoned sailors of the Alert, who were preparing to kill the American crew and take the ship to England.
His crew numbered only twelve persons, including one boy, his own son John.
It was bad enough to be captured and have his ship taken into a South American port as a prize; but to have his crew ordered about by an American boy of twelve seemed too much for an English captain to bear.
A crew of pirates, or sea robbers, captured him and held him prisoner until a large sum of money, or a ransom, should be paid.
After catching over a hundred of these fish for themselves, the crew of the Half Moon proceeded to the southwest, as Hudson had heard from his friend, Captain John Smith, that there was an open way to the Pacific south of Virginia.
The crew fired upon them with their muskets, and with the cannon, blew holes in their canoes.
When Captain Jones returned to the shores of France he brought with him the Drake as a prize, with a goodly crew of British prisoners to exchange for Americans.
He sailed from Amsterdam, Holland, with a crew of twenty men and his young son, on the Half Moon.
The last of his proceedings of which history has left any record, is the murder of the crew of the Boston and the enslavement of Thompson and Jewitt, and in the narrative of the latter we are afforded a final glimpse of this notorious "King.
This was almost the same spot as that in which the Spaniards of Bodega's crew were massacred in 1775, and for this reason they named it Isla de Dolores--the "Island of Sorrows.
When he built that boat he were thinking already that he might have to leave sudden, and perhaps a crew wouldn't be willing to, even if he got one.
So they just didn't take t' trouble to send out a crew and look.
After this the captain sent the crew below for a "mug o' tea" while he took the first trick at the wheel.
I were out two days and a night with t' Bonnie Lass when she were lost on t' Bristle Rocks, and us brought in only two of her crew alive.
Moreover, thecrew would rather have it so than to carry the corpse around while they were seal-hunting.
What a clamour ensued, for every one wanted to be one of the crew to go to the winter home.
She were an odd craft, built for a crewof one man only.
Russian soldiers were drawn up between the ship and the train, and cheered us the whole way, with a regular British cheer; our own crew turned out with a drum and a fife and various other instruments, and marched about singing.
The crew were drunk to a man, and, as the Transport officer said, “The only way to get this ship right, is to get her out.
More than once death in open boats was a possibility to be faced; there were seven feet of water in the engine-room, and only the stout hearts of her captain and crew knew all the dangers of their long watch and ward.
My second crew was furnished by Mr. Pete, before referred to, and on the seventeenth of December we set sail from that country of revolutions.
To leave a port in our condition was hard lines, but my perishingcrew could get no succour at Maldonado, so we could do nothing but leave, if at all able to do so.
I found my Brazilian crew to be excellent sailors, and things on board the Aquidneck immediately began to assume a brighter appearance, aloft and alow.
The crew (foreign) found shipping for Montevideo, where they had joined the Aquidneck, in lieu of the stricken Brazilian sailors.
It was well to find among the crew this feeling of assurance in the gallant little vessel.
Those hooked by my crew were perhaps the tyrrhena pirates "turned into dolphins" in the days of yore.
The crew was rescued by Captain Lunt, and brought safe into Rio next day.
After all this sad trouble was over, a new crew was shipped, and the Aquidneck's prow again turned seaward.
This was no time to weep, for the lives of all the crew were saved; neither was it a time to laugh, for our loss was great.
My crew had now no wish to bear up for port short of one on our own coast, but, impatient to see the North Star appear higher in the heavens, strung every nerve and trimmed every sail to hasten on.
Mayor Bell of that city and many of his townfolk met us at the wharf, and gave me as well as my sea-tossed crew a welcome to their shores, such as to make us feel that the country was partly ours.
Crew after crew was sacrificed to this frenzied rush for money, but nothing was thought of it.
The ship was painted a dull white, and the crew wore a grey uniform.
The ill-fated Abbas was wrecked, her passengers and crew were murdered, her papers were taken to the Mahdi, who now knew exactly how long Khartoum could hold out against famine.
The men who were holding Taylor dropped him “like a hot potato,” and away they rowed, taking some of the crew as prisoners.
When the Varuna went down with her crew Boggs missed the boy, and feared he was among the drowned.
Yet Morris refused to yield, and the whole crew in their desperate plight thought of nothing but saving the honour of the flag.
The crew of the Cumberland, seeing a strange ship come round Craney Island, recognized her as the expected ironclad.
The blockaders opened fire on the Night Hawk, which was blazing merrily, and Colonel Lamb shelled the blockading fleet; then through the boiling surf the rest of the crew rowed safely, wet through and exhausted.
There was the gunboat Whitehall roaring with flames, and the dark figures of the crew were plainly visible on her deck, either wrapped in red fire or jumping into the deep water beneath.
After shifting the guns and stores, the crew got the Bordein to move on the 26th of January, but only to get fast upon a sand-bank.
The crew rose on their elbows and peeped over the bulwarks, following the course of the gunboat by the flashes of her guns and by the rockets she was sending up madly to attract or warn her consorts.
A weird figure crept into the fore-chains and dropped the leaded line, while the crew listened to see if the engines would seize the opportunity to blow off steam and so advertise their presence for miles around.
The paddle-floats were flapping the water softly, but to the crew the noise they made was terrifying.
Why, she had been deserted by her crew when the wind failed and she was getting too near Sebastopol.
Scarcely had the lifeboat returned from saving the crew of the Lord Douglas, than another schooner, though lying with three anchors ahead, drove ashore at Carton.
In vain her crew ran from side to side to start her.
Mr D'Aeth, who was the first to land, jumped on shore with his crew at the foot of the hill on the top of which the nearest fort stood, and at once rushed for the summit.
Most of the crew of the missing boat escaped with their lives, and were made prisoners.
When the squall passed, the whole of the crew were found clinging to the bow rail.
My anxiety was not, however, entirely relieved till the falls were hooked on, and she and all her crew were hoisted on board, with the rescued man Miles.
The crew were now able to turn their attention to the position their ship was in, and turning to with a will, unmolested by the enemy, they succeeded in getting afloat again.
The winter was severe, but passed away without sickness; and now Captain McClure informed his crew that it was his purpose to send a portion home in a boat by Baffin's Bay.
The rest of the crew was made up from sailors drafted from other warships, and then the Teutonic was ready to take her place in the great Jubilee naval parade.
As soon as her passengers and freight had been landed her crew set to work to take her war supplies on board.
In the crew of the Teutonic were some fifty sailors who were members of the British Naval Reserve.
I fear if one crew had beaten the other crew the breadth of a paddle, that other would have lain to and eaten that one right under our very eyes.
At this point, my crew suddenly rose in the bows of the canoe, making several outlandish flourishes with his broad paddle.
Then the full moon rose; a cock crew in the peak of the chapel, thinking it daybreak, and the little fellows slept, with their spines curved like young kittens.
When the uncaptured crew of the "Resolution" poured their iron shot into the tents of the adversary, this flickering life was young and vigorous, and he ran like a good fellow.
I should be very happy to furnish the boat, sir; but I cannot expose a crew to such a storm as will soon break upon us," replied Paul.
The crew of the boat were piped away, the cutter lowered, and they took their places in her.
Cleats and Gage, with their sharp axes, were dealing heavy blows at the masts of the galiot, while the crew of the gig and first cutter were clearing away the standing rigging.
Your commander has made a full report of the vessel, and it gives me great pleasure to say that he awards the highest praise to his officers and crew for their zeal and fidelity.
He generously bestowed great praise upon his officers and crew for their zealous efforts both in working the Josephine, and in saving the galiot and her crew.
With only two exceptions, the officers and crew of the Josephine were all old sailors.
Hardly any of the crew had closed their eyes during the preceding night, and all of them were very tired.
He gave them bad marks enough to spoil all their chances, if they had any, of promotion, and the choice of desirable berths when the crew should be reorganized at the beginning of the next quarter, which would be in one month.
The boat's crew repaired to their stations on the quarter, wondering what was to be done next.
The gig's crew were piped away, and the falls were manned.
Mr. Terrill, you will pipe away the crew of the gig for me.
Mr. Lowington had called the crew together, and told them what the Josephines had done, praising them in what seemed to the professor to be the most extravagant language.
The crew were squaring the yards, hauling taut the sheets, lifts, and braces, and putting the deck in order for Sunday.
Paul gave the required order, and in a few moments the crew were at quarters.
Each junk is propelled by a crew of fourteen oarsmen, dressed in uniforms corresponding in color to the triangular flags that flutter gayly in the breeze at the stern.
The sail is hoisted, and the crew confines itself to steering and poling the boat clear of bars.
The crew of these warlike vessels are uniformed in the gayest of red, and in the middle of their backs and breasts are displayed white "bull's eyes" about twelve inches in diameter.
Several people are squatting on the bank watching a crew of half-naked men tugging a rude but strong ferryboat up-stream toward them.
The crew of the war-vessel are engaged in drying freshwater shrimps, tiny minnows, and other drainings and rakings of the water to store away for future use.
Passing sampans are greeted by the crew of our boat with the intelligence that a Fankwae is aboard; the news being invariably conveyed with a droll "ha-ha!
They were among the effects gathered up by Ayoob Khan's plundering crew from the disastrous field of Maiwand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
