Is the shipmaster you refer to in Lyme now, captain?
Strange to say, the shipmaster for once kept his own counsel, and this unwonted reticence on his part only served to inflame his wife's curiosity the more.
I am rejoiced to think that the Eider Duck is out of port, so that the seamen will not be likely to hear of the notice; and I am still better pleased to find that our staunch shipmaster appears to care little about it.
I know a shipmaster who is an honest fellow, and a perfect Royalist, but for all that, I would not trust him with this great secret.
A vessel has been hired by Captain Ellesdon from a trusty shipmaster at Lyme, named Limbry, and your majesty will embark for St. Malo on Monday next at midnight.
The shipmaster was stoutly built, and his bronzed complexion showed that he had undergone a good deal of exposure to the elements.
Cabeça de Vaca and the shipmaster were the only men capable of handling an oar in their boat.
The second officer of every English ship was a practical shipmaster whose authority held in all matters concerning navigation.
The shipmaster came in just then with some question, and the conversation dropped.
As he went on board a ship bound for Egypt, his wife was seized by the shipmasterand carried off.
My folk will trouble not at all for me for a year or so, and a shipmaster may be away as long as he chooses.
This is Bertric the Thane, of Lyme, in England, a shipmaster of long standing.
When the shipmaster had everything ready, and nothing remained except for Demetrius to do his part, he sent Diodorus to Syria to gather information, and to watch the disposition of the people there.
Menyllus entered into conversation with them, showed them the provisions in store for the voyage, and commended them earnestly to the care of the shipmaster and crew.
The shipmaster reported him and a familiar was deputed to accompany him day and night, on board and on shore, never to let him out of his sight or to communicate with any one.
Burton was a shipmaster or supercargo, who made no secret of the reformed faith in which he had been trained, wherefore he was arrested and all the merchandize in his charge was sequestrated.
Not that the captain--Powell was careful to explain--didn't see things as a shipmaster should.
Well, have you ever seen a shipmaster walking his own deck as if he did not know what he had underfoot?
Step in some afternoon," he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself.
A shipmaster was apt to get the habit of reading," said my companion, brightening still more, and taking on a most touching air of unreserve.
The retired shipmaster loved the beautiful in nature, and his first view of the silver lake and the surrounding country enabled him to decide that this spot should be his future habitation.
The worthy shipmaster was a devout man, which was perhaps the reason why he so much enjoyed his morning walk.
Meantime do thou tell the shipmaster Geoffrey and our other folk of these tidings, and thereafter get thee all ready; and come hither to me before sunrise to-morrow, and I shall be ready for my part; and so sail we back to Langton.
Then the shipmastercame up to him and clapped him on the shoulder and said: "Well, shipmate, cheer up!
Yea," quoth the shipmaster grinning, "and be the bears of thy country so manlike, that they dwell in builded houses?
The shipmaster greeted him in his turn, and said withal: "Old man, art thou the king of this country?
Neutral trade with England was under the ban, and the Yankee shipmaster was in danger of losing his vessel if he sailed to or from a port under the British flag.
This was the practice in families of solid station and social rank, for to be a shipmaster was to follow the profession of a gentleman.
What was likely to befall a shipmaster in the turbulent eighteenth century may be inferred from the misfortunes of Captain Michael Driver of Salem.
His reputation and his license as a shipmaster were in jeopardy, and he had already had a bitter taste of Marston's intolerance of shortcomings.
But at that moment Mayo was receiving imperious command from theshipmaster whose orders he had obeyed for so long that obedience was second nature.
The sometime alcalde and the shipmaster were the talkers, the student sitting as though he were in the desert, eating bread and cheese and onions and looking on his book.
A long bench ran by inn wall and here the shipmaster took his seat and began to discourse with those already there.
The shipmaster said, "This time last year I was in London, and I saw their King.
Yesterday plain Diego and Bartholomew, a would-be churchman and a shipmaster and chart-maker!
It is a fact that in these times, and often from want of attention to health, nearly every shipmaster long in harness is more or less nervous.
A judicious shipmaster will warn his young mates about this.
Such a proceeding would at once account satisfactorily for the curious fact that I had succeeded in obtaining a crew when no other shipmaster within the port could do so.
Yes; it’s the most natural thing an old shipmaster can do to turn ship-chandler, and have vessels and rigging to look after.
There’s not a shipmaster in the country but would be proud of much less than you have done.
The Company was kind enough to supply us with a North Sea pilot, a shipmaster acquainted with those waters, but I had no idea of letting him do aught else than consult me.
I always found navigating officers most willing to help a shipmaster with the time, or any information that may be at their disposal.
He was asked to recommend a shipmaster fitted for the task in hand and named Captain Kidd, who was reluctant to accept.
He had been a merchant shipmaster of brave and honorable repute in an age when every deep-water voyage was a hazard of privateers and freebooters of all flags, or none at all.
When he was in high favor she may, perchance, have admired this dashing shipmaster and privateer as he spun his adventurous yarns in the Governor's mansion.
Trials for piracy were common enough, but this accused shipmaster was confronted by such an array of titled big-wigs and court officials as would have been sufficient to try the Lord Chancellor himself.
However this may be, the shipmaster is said to have been relating his dream to the seamen on the deck of his vessel when the boat which was conveying Pompey came into view.
The worthy shipmaster had studied society and human nature in many lands and climes.
Not a few of the latter regarded the retired shipmaster as a sort of harmless lunatic, liberal with his money, but, like all reformers, an unsafe leader to follow.
He had been telling the shipmaster his troubles, and he wanted his son to accept the offer.
The shipmaster was a practical man, and he did not talk without acting.
In some cases the personal obligation of the shipmaster is also included.
A bond procured from theshipmaster by improper compulsion would be void.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipmaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
