bluejacket

Example Sentences

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The bluejacket wondered what was wrong, why he had been called to the "nut factory."

From Time Magazine Archive

Cumbersome, inefficient bookkeeping will be replaced by a simple pay-record card to be carried by the bluejacket wherever he goes.

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The U.S. bluejacket who spoke could make allowances for human curiosity.

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A U.S. bluejacket staggered through the thick odor and the rude sounds of the old port of Naples.

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One day, in a pub at Plymouth, there was a man—a bluejacket too—boasting he'd never known what fear was, and I up and asked him, 'Eh, chum?

From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney