There is no doubt that the coast of Oregon was discovered to Europe by the greatest seaman of Queen Elizabeth’s reign.
He says: “Cabota was not only a skilful seaman but a long traveller, and such a one as entered personally that strait, sent by King Henry VII.
This paper will refer to the Sargent edition of the second journal under the caption of Seaman Journal; and in citing the Orme Journal it will also use the pagination of Sargent.
It is worthy of note that the bridge was in course of construction at least twelve days before the road through the Narrows was completed (Seaman Journal, 379).
A seaman of Aarhus bought the model, which is that of a ship of war with seventy-four cannon, and gave it to the Domkirke, at Whitsuntide, 1720.
The church a little to the south of the lighthouse is called Høierup, and was built in fulfilment of the vow of a seaman when in danger.
One drowned seaman was found under the capsized boat, but the rest were nowhere to be seen.
A little patch of red instead streamed out from her bare pole of a mast, the meteor flag of Old England, which no British seaman can see without a glow of pride, and a look of consternation came into their faces.
Ay, my lad, it was touch and go, and by the mercy of a good seaman at the wheel we didn't touch.
They were her game, and a brawny-armed seaman growled out his opinion of the relative fighting values of the crafts.
The door opened, and a strong-built seaman stepped into the room, and looked at the family with a quiet smile on his sunburnt face.
Leaving Lizzie to make inquiry as to the health of John Furby, he took the seaman out and walked towards the Downs.
Kenneth said this with strong feeling, and the seamanlooked at him more earnestly than he had yet done.
Several voices here expressed dissent, and an elderly seaman stepped forward and said that they didn't intend to become pirates, so they had better not begin with murder.
The seaman continued his efforts to instil warmth into the little frame.
It is what I used to call my sister, however; and besides that there is a seaman named Stephen Gaff, who, I find, has turned up somewhat suddenly and unaccountably last night from Australia.
A seaman can almost invariably be relied upon to extricate himself from a tight corner.
The door was opened, and the heavy curtain pushed aside, revealing the anxious features of Able-Seaman Cassidy.
At the word a seaman pressed the key of the firing-battery.
Derek, upon being informed of the state of affairs, ordered Fordyce and four seaman to remain on board the prize.
So Flirt was left on board under the care of the ship's company in general, and Able Seaman Cassidy in particular.
Your anxiety on the part of your wounded seaman is, I know, merely a subterfuge, else for what reason did you object to his presence?
Some of the crew went on deck and began a pantomime conversation with a Russian seaman on sentry duty on the quay side.
Thorn was a thoroughly experienced seaman and a skilled and practised navigator.
The day they sailed a seaman named Aymes strayed from the boat party, and was left behind when the boat returned to the ship.
They brought with them the seaman Murray, who also said a few words.
Together with a seaman named Murray they went out into the bay in their yacht the "Iolanthe," and they never returned.
The agony he had suffered was such as many a good seaman had endured since the wreckers came to Ken's Island.
I will not ask you what that would mean, for you are a seaman and you know.
You'll pardon what a plain seaman is going to say, and count him none the less a friend for saying it.
I, meanwhile, fingered my hat and looked foolish; for it was an odd kind of job to have come twelve thousand miles upon, and what to say to her with the hulking seaman at my elbow, the Lord forgive me if I knew.
I had set Peter Bligh at the tiller, and Seth Barker and an American seaman to pull the oars.
And, at this, I brought to and looked him up and down and answered him as a seaman should.
I to those below, and gladder words a seaman never spoke to comrades waiting for him.
The world has put a great gulf between the simple seaman and those whom fortune shelters at her heart.
At the same moment the young seaman who had shuddered before the dead, fell headlong in the passage, and with one loud cry gave up his life.
Never, I believe, in all this world was a seaman so frightened.
A young seamanamong us shuddered when he saw the knife still sticking in the dead man's side.
As this agreed with the information supplied by Ensign Andrews, Dave believed that the seaman was telling the truth.
The port that the seaman mentioned was the one Darrin had been trying to get him to name.
This seaman who is your guard will see that you remain where you are for the present.
It was just as the sailor was laying the cloth back over the features of the last one in the row that a seaman sprang into the room precipitately.
He stationed a seaman with lead and line on the stairs leading down to each compartment, with instructions to take frequent soundings and to report sharply to the deck.
Seaman Streeter was not present, nor even accounted for.
As Dave went down the steps from the bridge a seaman on watch sprang to seize his arm and steady him.
The seaman who had dropped the noose around him spoke English fluently.
With that Darrin left the dining room, after detailing another seaman to remain on duty there with the guard over the two women.
The seaman nearest the revolver glanced quickly at Darrin, as if to inquire whether he should make an attempt to seize her pistol wrist and wrench the weapon away.
Too much to be done," repliedSeaman Streeter, shoving off and starting to swim back.
The British frigate "Guerriere," cruising off New York, had impressed a seaman from an American coaster almost in sight of Sandy Hook.
The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous sail'[5].
Here too the young seaman might come for instruction in the art of navigation, simple and imperfect as it must have been.
Here too the aged seaman buffetted by the storm might seek refuge from its fury, obtain rest and refreshment, and instructions for the continuance of his voyage.
At Boston, he shipped before the mast as able seaman in a big deep-water ship.
There was Pango Pete, a nigger six foot tall, who couldn't write his name, but he was a seaman from his feet up; and a Dago named Pedro Pasqualai.
The people looked at them all the more because Seaman was still prancing, but without unseating his mistress, who held him at any gait or any degree of swiftness that pleased her.
The other woman drew her down beside her, and patted her head and soothed her, while Dolly and Seaman Dick lowered themselves to the boat.
She belongs to Seaman Dick West,” said the man, “and he’s sure to have everything for her.
The dawn,” said Seaman Dick, and Steve turned in the seat astern and looked at the dim grey in the sky behind him.
Wait a minute,” saidSeaman Dick; “I’ll slip up and give you a hand.
They saw Seaman Dick West look round and say something to Steve, the boat’s nose slanted in to them, and they swept fast downstream and past the tree again.
But naught save dire necessity would make a seaman try to beach his ship here at any time, least of all when half a gale was piling the seas one over the other across the shallows.
She was meant to run while she might, and that silent and lonely ship, passing us on an endless voyage into the great westward ocean, was as strange and uncanny a sight as a seaman could meet in a long life.
There is not a seaman in the North Sea who will not thank you if you do so," said Bertric.
I saw a man on her high bows lift his hand in the silent answer of the seaman who hears and understands a hail, and I saw a red shield, blazoned with a golden lion, at the masthead.
I always told my father that Bertric was the best seaman we had in all our crowd," Asbiorn said frankly.
Bertric walked backward and forward, as a seaman ever will, across the deck, whistling softly to himself, and looking eastward.
He referred me to a seaman of the name of Matthew Pyke.
It was averred that "no British seaman could be capable of neglecting his duty for the sake of increasing the gains of the station.
The latter was a native of the place, had served his time as a seaman from the port, and was reputed of fair character.
The bewildered old seamanmade no reply; the smaller spirit sniffed and wiped his nose on his cuff, and the larger one began to whistle softly.
The seaman set his glass down on the little table, and, leaning over, formed a word with his lips, and then drew back slowly and watched the effect.
He turned to the seaman as he spoke but the words had hardly left his lips before George was going below and undressing for his part.
The other gave a dreadful howl, and rising from the deck, walked forward and went below, giving a brother seaman who patted his shoulder as he passed a blow in the ribs, which nearly broke them.
He bit me on Monday," said the seaman who had spoken before.
Captain Chantor gave the order to beat to quarters, and in a few moments every officer and seamanwas at his station.
In one instance a lieutenant received for his share nearly forty thousand dollars; and even an ordinary seaman pocketed seventeen hundred from a single capture.
Every officer and seaman was promptly in his station, for it was a welcome call.
Proud of this triumph over the skilful seamanwho was in charge of the chase, he persevered in the pursuit.
The fat seaman was standing in front of the cage as she reached it, and regarding the bear with much satisfaction until Kate sidled up to him, and begged him, as a personal favour, to go in the cage and undo it.
The seaman obeyed, and Lewis, accompanied by the girl, walked forward.
The seaman received this astounding communication with calmness, but, as a slight concession to appearances, said "Lor!
The unfortunate seaman followed his fair charge into the kitchen, and, leaning against the door-post, doubled up like a limp rag before the terrible glance of its mistress.
Bruiser" of Sam Dowse, as that able-bodied seaman sat with his plate in his lap, eyeing it with much disfavour.
The subject exhausted, theseaman returned to his work, and the captain continued steering in moody silence.
It was a fine clear night, and the schooner was going along under a light breeze; the seaman took the wheel, and, turning to his companion, abruptly inquired what he meant by deserting and worrying them with six foot four of underdone lobster.
It was related to me by an old seaman who, among other incidents of a somewhat adventurous career, claimed to have received Napoleon's sword at the battle of Trafalgar, and a wound in the back at Waterloo.
A fat and very sleepy seamanput up the side-lights, and the little schooner, detaching itself by the aid of boat-hooks and fenders from the neighbouring craft, moved slowly down with the tide.
The seaman followed his outstretched finger, and his heart failed him as he saw the cat, with its back arched, gingerly picking its way along the side of the vessel.
He's as smart a seaman as ever comes into the London river, an' he's got a schooner angels would be proud of.
A mate who was a good seaman wouldn't ha' let a cook go on like this--it's not discipline.
Seaman had been Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Both were book collectors, both were classical scholars, and when Seaman died during Hill's stay in London, we may be quite sure that Hill was among his mourners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seaman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
