"Sea captain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... noted sea captain, and a terror to the Spaniards. Was imprisoned by King James I. at the instance of the King of Spain for piracy and was to have been executed, but English public feeling ran so high ...
— The Pirates' Who's Who - Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers • Philip Gosse
... the elderly sea captain, rising and stretching. "I do believe, constable, I've been asleep. Warm weather, this, for May. A glorious week for Epsom. Shan't see you to-morrow, I'm afraid. Perhaps shan't see you until Thursday. Here, take that, my lad, and have half-a-crown's worth on Black Riot for the Derby; ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew
... "'But Othere, the old sea captain, He neither paused nor stirred Till the king listened, and then Once more took up his pen ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... an officer; yes, he commands a ship. He has been much with you, but he is now far away. You loved him once, but now the other man has come between you." Then, pausing a moment, she broke forth rapidly and harshly: "Woman, you have tried to deceive me! This sea captain is your husband!" ...
— The Somnambulist and the Detective - The Murderer and the Fortune Teller • Allan Pinkerton
... of this was made by Sir John Hawkins who at the beginning of his career as a great English sea captain had informed himself in the Canary Islands of the Afro-American opportunity awaiting exploitation. Backed by certain English financiers, he set forth in 1562 with a hundred men in three small ships, and after procuring in ...
— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
... of an old friend, now deceased: the late Lt.-Col. John Sewell, who had served in the 49th under General Brock, and whose birth was nearly contemporary with the visit of Nelson to our port in September, 1782. It was evident the chief biographers of the gifted sea captain ignored the details of his youthful attachment ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... the picturesque and forceful figures which frontier life so often developed. He was born in Connecticut, of parents recently emigrated from Scotland. Three weeks after his birth his mother died, and six years later his father, a sea captain, was drowned. The orphan boy, brought up by strangers in Jefferson County, New York, experienced the hardships of frontier life and developed that passion for knowledge which so frequently is found in those to whom education is denied. When he was ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... cultivation is introduced into the Isle of Bourbon (now Reunion) by a sea captain of St. Malo, who brings the plants from Mocha by direction of the French Company of ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers |
