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disrate

[dis-rayt] / dɪsˈreɪt /




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But I hope you'll take care of the rest of my crew, and not disrate them after I am dead in favour of new followers.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

I disrate you on account of your unfitness for the post, and you will now return to your former rating, as I have restored your name to the list of the crew.

From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by J. Schonberg

“I appreciate your feeling, my lad,” he answered; “but even if he does return I won’t disrate you, and I will see how we can best manage to get you an outfit.”

From Won from the Waves by John B. Greene

But I hope you'll take care of the rest of my crew, and not disrate them after I am dead, in favour of new followers.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Must be minded, or it’s rank mutiny, and a disrate.

From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland

I did not know the longitude; but I did know that we had sailed due east since I was disrated, and that then we were on the forty-seventh parallel.

From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson

In the evening General Longstreet told me that he had just received intelligence that Hooker had been disrated, and that Meade256 was appointed in his place.

From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

I would be disrated and go before the mast to-morrow, to be shown the way upward again by such a guide. 

From Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Charles Dickens

But I've been disrated before and we'll let that pass.

From Wide Courses by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

Listen; consider yourself disrated from this instant—do you hear?”

From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by William Heysham Overend

I don't mean he'd think of disrating you, Cap'n Sears.

From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

We believe you to be a clever first mate, otherwise Captain Kendall would not have dug you up out of the forecastle; and believing this, naturally we dislike the thought of disrating you.

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

It was worse than tyranny, I thought, this arbitrary conduct in disrating me unjustly!

From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by William Heysham Overend

The disrating had been largely due to the second officer, who did not hesitate to ask the fellow in what capacity he saw him now.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Ernest W. Hornung


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