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Sentences starting with crew

Crew perceived that the exercise had heightened her colour, and the transition appealed to his sense of beauty. [9]

Sentences ending with crew

Every officer of your ship was the Church's picked servant, and so was every man of the crew. [5]
At times he was drunk for forty hours at a stretch, when he would shut himself in his cabin and leave his ship to the care of Cockle, who navigated with the sober portion of the crew. [9]
This was a vessel and a force, truly, with which to conquer a fifty-gun ship of the latest type, and with a picked crew. [9]
We remained cooped up eight days and nights with that curious crew. [5]
Any roughness of the water would be unfavorable to the weaker crew. [6]
The game was soon taken up, and before long, one tambourine after another was flying over the heads of the frenzied crew. [10]
It became painfully silent, none speaking save in whispers, and all watching with anxious faces either the receding heads in the water or the unfortunate boat's crew. [11]
Several of his shot crushed through the bulwarks in front of me, shattering a nine-pounder and killing half of its crew. [9]
He had sent Radisson on ahead to warn his boat's crew. [11]
It was that of the young lady who pulled the bow oar, the captain of the boat's crew. [6]

Sentences containing crew two or more times

He took the second mate's boat; six of its crew elected to remain, and two of his own crew came with him (nine in the boat, now, including himself). [5]
The sloop, they said, had six guns and a crew of twenty men; but the schooner, which was much larger, had no arms save muskets, and a crew and guard of thirty men. [11]
It was a detailed account of the sufferings of officers and crew, as given by the third officer and members of the crew. [5]

More example sentences with the word crew in them

Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
The Emperor had written to Count Rostopchin as follows: As soon as Leppich is ready, get together a crew of reliable and intelligent men for his car and send a courier to General Kutuzov to let him know. [2]
Lest the envious world should not believe his own story, Smith had Baker, his steward, and several of his crew examined before a magistrate at Plymouth, December 8, 1615, who support his story by their testimony up to a certain point. [4]
This he did with skill, and the crew of the ship even cheered them as they left. [11]
Then my conductor, whom I rightly judged to be the mate of this devil's crew, took me roughly by the shoulder and bade me accompany him to the cabin. [9]
Thrice our muscles were startled into tenseness by the baying of a hound, and once a cock crew out of all season. [9]
Fielding and Dicky were both armed, but Fielding would not fire until he saw that his own crew had joined the rioters on the bank. [11]
The renegade crew was nowhere to be seen. [9]
For instance, it was a proud thing to be of the crew of such stately craft as the 'Aleck Scott' or the 'Grand Turk. [5]
Sent back and warped up the other yawl, and then George (the first mentioned pilot,) and myself, took a double crew of fresh men and tried it again. [5]
Breton fishermen are usually shy of storm to foolishness, and one or two of the crew urged the drunken skipper not to start, for there were signs of a south-west wind, too friendly to the Bay des Trepasses. [11]
When the insolent uproar went up from the "Greens," whose color he himself wore, he had found it difficult to refrain from rushing on the cowardly crew and knocking some of them down. [10]
We made him up a purse of fifty pounds,-- for the crew got to like him,--and left him at Port Darwin, sailing away again in a few days to another pearl-field farther east. [11]
I have only to send orders to the steersman to keep the crew together and everything in sailing order.--You are under no obligations to me; on the contrary it is I who have to thank you for the honor you will confer on me. [10]
Preparing to go to Roanoke next day, a boat was upset and Captain Spicer and six of the crew were drowned. [4]
Rather than return to her benefactress she would have joined the roofless crew who passed the night on the hard marble pavement of the forecourts of the temple. [10]
Indeed, he tried to control himself, for some reason standing in awe of my appearance, and then he burst out into such loud haw-haws that the crew poked their heads above the cabin hatch. [9]
Not more than three-fourths of the passengers and crew were got into the boats. [11]
And to effect this mere holding on, with the vagabond crew that composed most of the colony, and with the extravagant and unintelligent expectations of the London Company, was a feat showing decided ability. [4]
And I'll say this for the crew of the 'Dancing Kate' that, so far as I know, they kept their word. [11]
He set himself, therefore, to win the confidence of Greenock and the crew, and he began discipline at once. [11]
As to strength, the woman's righters believed that, weight for weight, their crew was as strong as the other, and of course due allowance would be made for the difference of weight and all other accidental hindrances. [6]
It seemed, on the instant, as if the whole crew were tossed into the water; but some had successfully clutched the boat's side, and Hungerford hung by a rope with one hand. [11]
In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One of the second gun's crew was "uncle"; Tushin looked at him more often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. [2]
The next day the French plundered Smith's vessel and distributed his crew among their ships, and for a week employed his boat in chasing all the ships that came in sight. [4]
Beyond me crowded the four members of the crew, unhurt. [9]
To account for the cry that was raised when first she attacked the Richard, it must be borne in mind that the crew of the 'Alliance' was largely composed of Englishmen. [9]
I didn't let the crew see it; for the fellow, even in his delirium, appeared to know I had exposed the thing, and drew the linen close in his fingers, and for a long time held it at his throat. [11]
Each member of the crew is armed with three tarry rope-yarns, knotted at the ends. [11]
The crew of the bark had assembled on the quarterdeck, stout English tars every man of them, armed with pikes and belaying-pins; and at a word from the mate they rushed in a body over the plank. [9]
And at length the bark cast off again, amidst jeers and threats, and one-third of her crew missing, and drifted slowly back to the roads. [9]
Here he learned that the rich prize had been wrecked in the storm and the captain and half the crew drowned. [4]
In not more than twenty minutes from the time the first shot was fired, the commander and his brave little crew yielded to the foe, and the Dorset's flag was hauled down. [11]
There isn't more than one good boat's crew on board--sailors, lascars, stewards, and all. [11]
The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the grassy shores, and gossiped with us and with the crew for a hundred yards or so, then stepped ashore again, refreshed by the ride. [5]
It was a sin and a shame, but his own crew had set it on fire, and it sank before his eyes. [10]
We breakfasted in silence, and with the crew standing ready at the oars and Xavier scanning the wide expanse of waters ahead, seeking for that unmarked point whence to embark on this perilous journey, we floated down the stream. [9]
And if the sight of the other boat and its crew was beautiful, how lovely was the look of this! [6]
The Captain, who should have been waving good-bye to his lady love from the poop, sat down abruptly,--the crew likewise; not, however, before she had heeled to the scuppers, and a half-bucket of iced water had run it. [9]
Alas, the gallant ship and crew, Can nothing help them more? [5]
A wreck of several transports had occurred at Belle Isle, and it was thought to send him down the river with a sloop to bring back the crew, and break up the wreck. [11]
One of the secrets of Dyck's control of the crew was the fact that he was a gentleman, and was born in the ruling class, and this was anathema to Nick Swaine. [11]
The yawl crew searched everywhere, but found no sign of the two men. [5]
And they had scarce hooked the ship's side when I sprang up the sea-ladder, to the great gaping of the boat's crew, and stood with the water running off me in rivulets before the captain himself. [9]
A crew of saints cabined in those little caravels and tossed about on that coast for six weeks would scarcely keep in good humor. [4]
And yonder, receding, receding, plumes lifting and falling, lifting and falling, streamed the thundering charge of La Hire's godless crew, La Hire's great figure dominating it and his sword stretched aloft like a flagstaff. [5]
The mate's boat pulled quickly up, took her in tow, and presently brought her alongside, all her own crew being more or less hurt. [5]
Sometimes even the public carriages have this superabundant crew, slightly modified--one to drive, one to sit by and see it done, and one to stand up behind and yell--yell when there is anybody in the way, and for practice when there isn't. [5]
The Maid of Provence carried a handful of guns and a small but carefully chosen crew, together with Sainte-Helene, Perrot, and the lad Maurice Joval, who had conceived for Iberville friendship nigh to adoration. [11]
And such another powwow--thousands of bo's'n's whistles screaming at once, and a crew like the populations of a hundred thousand worlds like ours all swearing at once. [5]
Then the other pilot and myself, with a larger crew of men started out and met with the same fate. [5]
Ages seemed to pass before the boat was let down even with the bulwarks, and a crew of ten, with Hungerford in command, were in it, ready to be lowered. [11]
They watched him, paralyzed, as the helpless in this world watch the capable, and before he had finished his task the train crew and some passengers began to arrive. [9]
They were an outlandish crew of comedians, dressed after no pattern, save the absurd- clowns, satyrs, kings, soldiers, imps, barbarians. [11]
This absolute crew, only of the Elect, holding all (but such as themselves) reprobates and castaways, now made more haste to return to Babel, as they termed England, than stay to enjoy the land they called Canaan. [4]
Guida counted as one of the crew, for there was little in the handling of a boat she did not know. [11]
They got away on November 14, 1777, with a fair crew and a poor lot of officers. [9]
At the end of this bout they surrendered her again to her crew, with victuals but no weapons. [4]
Within two weeks of the time that Phips in his Bridgwater Merchant, manned by a full crew, twenty fighting men, and twelve guns, with Gering in command of the Swallow, a smaller ship, got away to the south, Iberville also sailed in the same direction. [11]
The ragged crew of the Ranger was paid in part out of his own pocket, and for a whole month he supported the Drake's officers and men, no provision having been made for prisoners. [9]
But the bulk of the poor gentlemen were a merry crew withal, and had their wit and their wine at table, and knew each other's histories (and soon enough ours) by heart. [9]
Finally, the captain of the pirate ship, a silent man by nature, often did not open his lips for days except to give orders to the crew. [10]
And the crew of the 'Bon homme Richard' was as sorry a lot as ever trod a deck. [9]
The high spirits of the boisterous crew were quite broken, and before they could turn on the magician he had vanished. [10]
Off the island of Planoca it was overpowered and captured by a little picaroon, with lateen sails and a couple of guns, and a most villainous crew, in poverty-stricken garments, rusty cutlasses in their hands and stilettos and pistols stuck in their waistbands. [4]
He brought word of murmuring among the more brutish of the crew, that some of them wished to join Gardner's fleet. [11]
The small portion of its crew that get on board the new vessel which takes them off don't pretend to save a great many of the bulky articles. [6]
Dot-and-go-One disencumbered himself of his timber leg and took his place, upon sound and healthy limbs, beside his fellow-rascal; then they roared out a rollicking ditty, and were reinforced by the whole crew, at the end of each stanza, in a rousing chorus. [5]
When the Duke of Albemarle had come aboard at Plymouth before they set sail, he had shrugged his shoulders at the motley crew. [11]
He did not notice that one of his crew abaft near the wheel was watching him closely, while creeping along the railing on the pretence of cleaning it. [11]
If you did not gain this entrance, --so he explained,--you were carried by a swift current below New Orleans and might by no means get back save by the hiring of a crew. [9]
The course must not be too long for the lighter and weaker crew, for the staying power of the young persons who made it up could not be safely reckoned upon. [6]
Mr. Stevens and myself held the companion-way, driving the crew back, not without hurt, for my wrist was slashed by a cutlass, and Mr. Stevens had a bullet in his thigh. [11]
With my men's muskets cocked, I ordered her crew and soldiers below, till they were all, save two lusty youths, stowed away. [11]
Well, I'll tell Mr. Martin so, but I'll tell him also that you've only a crew of two--" "Of three, now! [11]
She makes 20,000,000 miles a day, with her present facilities; but, with a picked American crew and good weather, we are confident we can get 40,000,000 out of her. [5]
A Lascar crew mans this ship--the first I have seen. [5]
Geber and Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon and Raymond Lully, and the whole crew of "pauperes alcumistae," all give the most elaborate directions showing their student how to fail in transmuting Saturn into Luna and Sol and making a billionaire of himself. [6]
They looked slouchy, listless, torpid,--an ill-conditioned crew, at first sight, made up of such fellows as an old woman would drive away from her hen-roost with a broomstick. [6]
The boat was landed in the eddy just above the town, and through the exertions of the citizens the cabin passengers, officers, and part of the crew and deck passengers were taken ashore and removed to the hotels and residences. [5]
From the tug it seemed that a large and well-armed crew were ranging behind the bulwarks of the Ninety-Nine. [11]
Numbers of the intoxicated crew, mad with excitement and wine, had cast off their clothes which lay in heaps between the pillars, soaking in puddles of spilt wine. [10]
In the first instance Melampus, the tanner, a drunken swaggerer, who had failed in business, had marched up the street at the head of a tipsy crew, and pointing with his thyrsus to the dark, undecorated house, had shouted: "Look at that dismal barrack! [10]
A cock crew in the distance. [9]
You will not in any case detain the crew of a captured neutral vessel or any other subject of a neutral power on board such vessel, as prisoners of war or otherwise, except the small number necessary as witnesses in the prize court. [7]
It was shameful, horrible, sickening; I could rage at the mere thought of being supposed to be one of that debased crew. [10]
Yet she devoted herself eagerly to the ship and the crew, and the fierce, lawless fellows cheerfully submitted to the sensible arrangements of their captain's beautiful, energetic wife. [10]
He shook his head and a sob rattled in his throat; his brave, taciturn crew had gone down without a cry. [11]
How much nearer have we come to the secret of force than Lully and Geber and the whole crew of juggling alchemists? [3]
Then, with idle gesture, I said that if they wished some drink, there was a bottle of rum near my fire, above me, to which they were welcome; also some game, which they might take as a gift to their captain and his crew. [11]
I watched it from a distance, but I held a powerful opera-glass in my hand, which brought the whole crew of the young ladies' boat so close to me that I could see the features, the figures, the movements, of every one of the rowers. [6]
But tow-ropes were for the endless up-river journey, when a numerous crew strained day after day along the bank, chanting the voyageurs' songs. [9]
It did more, for it gave Fielding five hours' sleep that night; and though he waked to see one of his own crew dead on the bank, he tackled the day's labour with more hope than he had had for a fortnight. [11]
He was a fool to look for the treasure with a poor ship and a worse crew. [11]
Hugo had seen enough--his enemy was captured and the law would get him, now--so he slipped away, jubilant and chuckling, and wended campwards, framing a judicious version of the matter to give to the Ruffler's crew as he strode along. [5]
There was an eight-oared boat rowed by a crew of the young ladies, of which Miss Euthymia was the captain and pulled the bow oar. [6]
When the first effort had been made to lower the boat, I asked the first officer if I could accompany the crew, but he said no. [11]
In sight on deck were the crew, in sou'westers, yellow waterproof canvas suits, and boots to the thigh. [5]
There's about one decent boat's crew on the ship, that's all. [11]
In those blissful days she was content to sit by the hour watching him as, bareheaded in the damp salt breeze, he sailed the great schooner and gave sharp orders to the crew. [9]

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