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There is a Turkish proverb which notes that two captains will sink a ship.
On the 1st of February the pilot of the Geelvink left the ships in one of the Geelvink’s boats in order to ascertain the position of Dirk Hartog’s Anchorage, and the captains of two of the vessels made an excursion for a distance of six or seven miles inland.
The captains of the vessels met with signed the log book and testified that the boat had neither sail nor rudder.
He seemed to glow with the conscious pride of one intimately associated with the most important man of the day; to be proud of the fact that he was bearing off the boy whom it was the school’s delight to honour, for Comethup was the head boy of the school and captain of the Eleven-a man whom little boys regarded with awe, as he, when a little boy, had once regarded the captains who had long since passed out of the school.
" "But all are not preachers and captains in the Salvation Army.
For against the curious outsider, who regard captains in the Salvation Army only as so many interesting results of growing civilization, their officers are powerless indeed.
In the old days the captains of East Indiamen were not unacquainted with great men's tables, but it was long since he had sat at such a feast.
[378] It is noticeable that all the people mentioned by name are captains of hosts, or members of the nobility; the Iliad only records the doings of the “Achæan” heroes.
There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners' Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown.
I spoken Dutch tolerably well; I told him who we were, and begged him, in consideration of our being Christians and Protestants, of neighbouring countries in strict alliance, that he would move the captains to take some pity on us.
” But I had soon reason to repent those foolish words: for that malicious reprobate, having often endeavoured in vain to persuade both the captains that I might be thrown into the sea (which they would not yield to, after the promise made me that I should not die), however, prevailed so far, as to have a punishment inflicted on me, worse, in all human appearance, than death itself.
Nor must we forget the captains of the rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces; a rough-looking set of tarpaulins, without the alertness of the Yankee aspect, but contributing an item of no slight importance to our decaying trade.
I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes.
My captains took all their ships inside, and made them fast close to one another, for there was never so much as a breath of wind inside, but it was always dead calm.
In an experimental town whose residents pull it up by the roots each morning to see how it is doing, whose central motif is self-inspection, the authors are the professional self-inspectors, Celebration's original captains of industry.
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