Cabeça de Vaca and the shipmaster were the only men capable of handling an oar in their boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days of the Discoverers] Reference

You can bet I'm glad they took my nickname from 'shipmaster' rather than from 'little cannon.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaker for the Dead]

The shipmaster was a good judge of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

The shipmaster obeyed, and sailed for Philadelphia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

It was the shipmaster, standing up on a stone bollard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

"It is Conan, Captain!" cried old Artus, the shipmaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Avenger]

"I am that by rank, though not a shipmaster," he replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

A judicious shipmaster will warn his young mates about this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference

The grizzled shipmaster washed down the draught in thirsty gulps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Avenger]

But a shipmaster named Leavy had argued for the bridge with great effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

We have no charts we can. trust, and the shipmaster fears we shall ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Avenger]

A human shipmaster would do so as a matter of course, given the circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inconstant Star]

They cheered Conan, and even the pessimistic shipmaster voiced his frank esteem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Avenger]

The point of view is from the shipmaster, Inigo, who finds a girl on a pirate ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds] Reference

But more often it was the skill and deviousness of the shipmaster that saved the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

With twenty men at the oars, three at the sweep, and the shipmaster, the crew was complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan of Cimmeria]

He wanted to learn the trade of shipmaster; then he would hire a good pilot, and buy a ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

As regarded the shipmaster, however, all was looked upon as pertaining to the character, as to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

Guibert was shipmaster for a boatload of us mercenaries in the last war between Pisa and Genoa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

Anaximander may have already used the image of the shipmaster of the universe (Kahn 1960: 238).    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor, My Eyes] Reference

Ladbroke claimed he had been an orphan and was picked up in the street and sold to a shipmaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Scepter'd Isle]

Both her two eldest sons are mine, Itheus the shipmaster, and Engenes, who commands the Palace Guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

The shipmaster generally rows to the back of it in his own boat, and obtains one from the shore to land in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

He was prosecuted for libelling a shipmaster for transporting slaves, was convicted and fined fifty dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference

The shipmaster, a friend by now, clapped our shoulders and said we should be made men once we got to Syracuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

Letting go of the line he had been holding, the young shipmaster rested hands on hips as he confronted Ehomba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

I might, for instance, have contented myself with writing out the narratives of a veteran shipmaster, one of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

It'll take another week to find a trustworthy shipmaster and to work One-Eye up to crossing the Sea of Torments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Games]

Drake became thus a shipmaster on his own account, and in time the most popular of Queen Elizabeth's sea-captains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introductory American History] Reference

And every shipmaster and all that sail into the lake, and mariners, and as many as work in the sea, stood afar off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

He was no longer the captain to them, but the commander: his brevet rank, as opposed to his lost status of shipmaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebel Worlds]

Gloucester the life of the old shipmaster Arblaster, whose ship he had taken and accidentally wrecked earlier in the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference

Evidently the indications were such as a shipmaster might feel anxious at, though the master of an aeronef might despise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robur the Conqueror] Reference

He was called a good fellow, -- only a little lumpish, -- and as he was brave and faithful, he rose in time to be a shipmaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

Meanwhile the admiral conferred in low tones with the ž shipmaster, who argued his point with many gestures and head shakings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Avenger]

Together with Rolf, Artus the shipmaster lounged in Conan's company while the galley swiftly cleaved the waters of the inland sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Avenger]

If the modern hard-driven shipmaster would exercise greater care as to his health and habits, and would strive more after being a true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference

It may be that we shall lay to at night, but that must depend upon the shipmaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest] Reference