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coxswain

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How to use coxswain in a sentence

With this coxswain he conversed long about the nature of his stirring and dangerous duties.

This is the east pier watch-house; the marine residence, if we may so express it, of the coxswain of the lifeboat and his men.

Despite darkness and turmoil the quick-eyed coxswain and his mate had noted the incident.

Pike payed out the hawser, the coxswain eased off the spring; away went the boat, and next moment Pike had Stanley by the hair.

A box near the coxswain a feet was opened, and a blue-light taken out.

When almost within hail, the coxswain heard the roar of an unusually heavy sea rushing behind him.

The coxswain could scarce suppress a grin as the instructor stepped into the stern sheets.

The coxswain of the gig had been previously cautioned not to allow the instructor to handle the yoke-lines again.

But the coxswain, though almost dragged backwards off his seat, is equal to the occasion.

A cheer met his words, and the coxswain turned the boat's head in the direction of the reef.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985