"Sea captain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... denied, that ever I heard, that up to the time of Captain Brand's being commissioned against the South Sea pirates he had always been esteemed as honest, reputable a sea captain as could be. ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle
... years after the disappearance of her husband, while she was walking along the Rue aux Juifs, she stopped before the house of an old sea captain who had recently died and whose furniture was for sale. Just at that moment a parrot was at auction. He had green feathers and a blue head and was watching everybody with a displeased look. "Three francs!" cried the auctioneer. "A bird ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant |
