All 50 Uses of
coxswain
in
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
- First Mate Cox had told her about it, probably hoping to frighten her because he was that sort of person.†
Chpt 3. *
- First Mate Cox said he'd seen grown men do it.†
Chpt 3.
- It had not been a happy voyage after First Mate Cox had come aboard.†
Chpt 3.
- She remembered First Mate Cox shooting at monkeys with his pistol when they had moored in that river mouth in the Sea of Ceramis.†
Chpt 3.
- Ermintrude did not know if this was true, but when she'd looked into First Mate Cox's eyes, she'd seen something much worse than any monkey could be.†
Chpt 3.
- "And will we be joined by Mr. Cox?" she asked, trying to hold on to the smile.†
Chpt 10.
- "Yeah, you look after us, missie, an' we'll look after you when Cox's cannibal chums come for a picnic!" said Polegrave.†
Chpt 11.
- And Cox had found the Raiders, had he?†
Chpt 11.
- She told them about First Mate Cox, and the mutiny and the man in the canoe......who had been brown and, like Mrs. Gurgle, looked as if he'd been made out of old leather.†
Chpt 11.
- According to First Mate Cox, the man made a rude gesture.†
Chpt 11.
- Cox had shot at the man, and had hit him.†
Chpt 11.
- The two of them tended to hang around with Cox in a way that was hard to understand until you found out that there are fish that swim alongside a shark, or even in its mouth, where they are safe from other fish and never get eaten.†
Chpt 11.
- Of course, Cox was not like a shark.†
Chpt 11.
- First Mate Cox had a choice, every day, and had chosen to be First Mate Cox.†
Chpt 11.
- First Mate Cox had a choice, every day, and had chosen to be First Mate Cox.†
Chpt 11.
- And that was a strange choice, because if evil was a disease, then First Mate Cox would have been in an isolation ward on a bleak island somewhere.†
Chpt 11.
- Cox was, in fact, contagious.†
Chpt 11.
- And Cox grinned.†
Chpt 11.
- Everyone knew about Cox.†
Chpt 11.
- You didn't hire First Mate Cox.†
Chpt 11.
- And if you were an innocent man, you accepted all the glowing references of the other captains without wondering why they would be so happy to see Cox on someone else's ship.†
Chpt 11.
- But Cookie said that in his opinion Roberts knew all about Cox and had been filled with missionary zeal at the chance to save such a big ripe sinner from the Pit of Damnation.†
Chpt 11.
- And maybe Cox, when he found himself working for a captain who held compulsory prayer meetings three times a day, was filled with a different kind of zeal, which would have been black with flames around the edges.†
Chpt 11.
- Amazingly, Cox went to the services willingly and joined in and paid attention.†
Chpt 11.
- Cox ate and drank mischief, and if you couldn't work out what he was up to, then it was the really dark stuff.†
Chpt 11.
- When he had nothing else to do, Cox shot at things.†
Chpt 11.
- Cox shot it so neatly that there were just two wings left, and then he gave Daphne a wink, as if he'd done something clever.†
Chpt 11.
- Sadly, there had been no one there to set Cox's feet on the right path and his fingers in plaster.†
Chpt 11.
- It was as if Cox was fascinated by the captain.†
Chpt 11.
- As for Captain Roberts—he might have wanted to save Cox's soul from the Fires of Perdition, but he hated the man himself and didn't mind showing it.†
Chpt 11.
- This did not sit well with Cox, but shooting captains always caused a bit too much of a stir, so, Cookie said, he must have decided to beat the captain on the man's own ground, or water, destroying him from the inside.†
Chpt 11.
- Cox shot things because they were alive, but to him that was just killing time.†
Chpt 11.
- It began with Cox sitting up straight during the prayer meetings and shouting "Halleluja" or "Amen" every time the captain finished a sentence, and clapping loudly.†
Chpt 11.
- Then when the captain said the story was not meant to be taken literally, Cox gave him a smart salute and said: "Then what is, Cap'n?"†
Chpt 11.
- No one was ever sure who taught the bird its first swear word, although the wobbling finger of suspicion pointed at Cox, but by then the whole crew was ill at ease.†
Chpt 11.
- Cox had his supporters, and the captain had staunch allies of his own.†
Chpt 11.
- And the next day Cox shot the old man in the canoe.†
Chpt 11.
- And there were even a few who held that one old man more or less didn't matter, but Cox and his cronies had been shooting at dolphins, too, and that was cruel and unlucky.†
Chpt 11.
- The captain had told her that if Cox's men won, she should fire the pistol into the barrel "to save her honor," though she was uncertain how much a saved honor would be worth when it was falling out of the sky in tiny pieces, along with the rest of the cabin.†
Chpt 11.
- There was a fury about him that even Cox took note of, Cookie had told her.†
Chpt 11.
- The captain had the look in his eye of the Almighty confronting a particularly wicked city, and maybe Cox was just sane enough to recognize that here was someone who might be even madder than he was, at least for the time it took to turn Cox and those around him into much smaller lumps.†
Chpt 11.
- The captain had the look in his eye of the Almighty confronting a particularly wicked city, and maybe Cox was just sane enough to recognize that here was someone who might be even madder than he was, at least for the time it took to turn Cox and those around him into much smaller lumps.†
Chpt 11.
- Or, Cookie said, the captain may have been about to commit wild murder right up until he realized that this was what Cox wanted, and the devil of a man would drag the captain's soul to hell along with his own.†
Chpt 11.
- He straightened up with his arms folded and a grim little smile on his face, and Cox just stood there, looking puzzled, and then every single loyal crewman pointed a pistol at his head.†
Chpt 11.
- Cox and his chums were herded into the ship's boat with food, water, and a compass.†
Chpt 11.
- In the end the guns were left for them on a little island a mile away, despite Captain Roberts declaring that in his opinion, any pirate or slaver who ran into Cox and his men would have a new captain in very short order indeed.†
Chpt 11.
- She could make out the character of Captain Roberts, heavy and pompous, and surely the one who sidled around was Polegrave, and the one who stamped and roared was Cox.†
Chpt 11.
- No. The man I kill—the dead man would have done that, but I think Cox just killed the old man because he couldn't see anything else to shoot at.†
Chpt 11.
- Cox would.†
Chpt 11.
- To be like Cox, I think.†
Chpt 11.
Definition:
the person in charge of a boat (small ship) -- such as a boat used in rowing competition