Sample Sentences forcoxswain (auto-selected)
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And the coxswain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything. (source)coxswain = the person in charge of a boat (small ship)
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Thorny wanted Owen to cox the varsity crew; Owen was the perfect size for a coxswain, and—after all—he'd grown up on the Squamscott.† (source)
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The navy coxswain was still exerting himself, cursing and ramming the throttle back and forth, to free the landing craft from the reef.† (source)
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At the Cox house, Herold dismounted and knocked.† (source)
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In the 1880s, a few years before lynching became the standard response to interracial romance and a century before Walter and Karen Kelly began their affair, Tony Pace, an African American man, and Mary Cox, a white woman, fell in love in Alabama.† (source)
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I made my way up the aisle, wedging myself three to a seat beside Jane Todd and Guylinda Cox, already dozing.† (source)
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Cox peers out from under his cap and snaps the ball sidearm to Robinson.† (source)
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The gig was already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain.† (source)
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The Coxes were wondering last night whether she would get into any great family.† (source)
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At all events, the Lord High Admiral couldn't command a yawl with dignity, if he consulted the cockswain every time he wished to go ashore.† (source)
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His close friend, the lawyer Cox Sproule, was a different matter.† (source)
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Wonder if he's going to make me his coxswain.† (source)
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The homesteads here were old and productive ones—the Andreasons, the Olsens, the McCullys, the Coxes; oxen had been used to cultivate their fields, descendants of the oxen brought to San Piedro in the old, log-skidding days.† (source)
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At this time we were in the road of Bengal, where, going on shore with the supercargo one day, in the evening, as I was preparing to go on board, one of the men came to me, and told me, I need not trouble myself to come to the boat, for that the cockswain and others had ordered him not to carry me on board any more.† (source)
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The younger of Trina Cox's two boys approached me.† (source)
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Six rowers sat on the thwarts, and the coxswain took the tiller.† (source)
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