"common" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Too young to obtain an appointment, he instead spent three years as a common sailor under other services.
- Why, dear heart, I've worked my way up from a common sailor, and am the better for it.
- They were described as "12 gentlemen and one common sailor".
- "You mean that this is no place for a common sailor?"
- By 1850 he had lost his fortune, and hired as a common sailor bound for China.
- He had been a common sailor then, in all probability.
- Now, Tough Bill was not the man to put up with humiliation at the hands of a common sailor.
- I found my new companions little different from the common sailors.
- How it had ever come into the possession of a common sailor neither he nor I could imagine.
- No, he won't go as anything but a common sailor.
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