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Example sentences for "good seaman"

  • Our master, Captain Stunt, though a good seaman, was nothing of a navigator, and we could scarcely tell even where we were driving to.

  • As I have said, he was, when sober, a good seaman, and thoroughly acquainted with the coast.

  • Charley was already out of his indentures, and as he had become a steady fellow and a good seaman, he hoped to be made mate on his next voyage.

  • He was a good seaman and a fair navigator, and when he was sober there wasn't a better man in the ship.

  • He is a good seaman, father, that mate of ours," he exclaimed.

  • The new mate showed himself to be a good seaman, and was evidently accustomed to command, as far as the captain could judge by the way in which he trimmed sails and issued his orders to the crew.

  • Having made every arrangement which as a good seaman he considered necessary, he sent Gerald back into the cabin to report to the captain; he would, he knew, be anxious to learn how things were going on.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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