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    Use "sea captain" in a sentence

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    sea captain


    1. age, wanted to become a whaling man and a sea captain


    2. Nye was a colorful and witty old sea captain and gained the


    3. Now, shrouded in a sable cloak, spewing curses like a sea captain, it was impossible to tell he was not a man at all


    4. Her father, a man called De Vries, was a sea captain from Holland who travelled the waters from Alaska to Mexico


    5. The hair was slightly grey but mostly concealed beneath the tattered, once-dainty grey cap, the kind generally worn by sea captains, which adequately matched the equally tattered grey wool suit adorned with dull, tarnished brass buttons though several were missing


    6. Wouldn’t that be lovely? If this man was a sea captain, you


    7. Before any settlement was even attempted at the landing at Province Town on Cape Cod Island, it was marred by an English sea captain seizing 27 natives and selling them into slavery


    8. During that time, its Captain Bligh was more progressively humane, smarter, and a better Sea Captain than most of the Sea Captains of his entire era


    9. It was discovered by an English sea captain named Pitcairn


    10. The Christian as the criminal and the Able-bodied English sea captain who was almost killed as the hero

    11. During that time, its captain Bligh was more progressively humane, smarter, and a better Sea captain than most of the sea captains of his entire era


    12. The Christian as the criminal, and the Able-bodied English sea captain as the hero


    13. ‘A sea captain and two children


    14. A group of sea captains had formed around me and I turned to them now, “When the battle is joined, and only after it has been joined, take your men and attack the enemy’s flank


    15. Thus I began to spin out an amusing Tale of Star-cross’d Lovers, compleat with swooning Virgins, rough-hewn Rakes, lustful Sea Captains, and ruin’d Courtiers


    16. In which ’tis prov’d that Sea Captains are as lustful as they are reputed to be, that Deists do not always make the best Lovers, and that many Persons in their Erotick Habits crave that Treatment which, in Truth, they deserve, in consequence of their Characters


    17. “Without us, there are no Pyrates, no Pyrate Ships, no Merchantmen to seize, no Sea Captains to capture, no Sailing Masters to set Sails, no Gunners to man the Cannon, no Cooks to stir the Stew, no Carpenters to build the Masts, no Sail-Makers to sew the Sails, no Drummers to make you merry, no Quartermasters to divide the Booty! Go your own Way without Women and where will you replenish your Crews? Will you seize Women and use ’em as Breeding Stock, then throw ’em to the Sharks? Will you seize Children and use ’em as Cannon Fodder? So hath it been for the whole History of the World and sure this is no Democracy! But if you truly mean your Motto, ‘A Deo a Libertate,’ and if you truly mean to make a Libertalia, in Spirit as in Name, then you must honour your Mothers as well as your Fathers, and accord that Sex a Place both in your Hearts and in your sacred Articles!”


    18. Chief amongst them was the Captain of the Cassandra, who, it now appear’d, was prepar’d to defend the Honour of our Prize with his Life itself! Ne’er had I seen such unaccustom’d Bravery from a Sea Captain!


    19. --The funeral of the poor sea captain today was most touching


    20. Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander—from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain—this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten

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