Young low ranking male employee who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship.
1Personally, I had rather be a desert savage than a ship's boy.
2Then the ship's boy would have as much as the captain!
3Every one, from the skipper to the ship's boy, had a mugful; some had two.
4He got employment (under an assumed name) as a ship's boy.
5He found that as ship's boy he was at the beck and call of the whole company.
6Sure enough, I had not been very long on deck when the ship's boy appeared before me.
7How'd ye like to be a ship's boy, hey, and get tickled up by a bo'sun's rope-end?
8I suppose no one would become a ship's boy until he had proved himself unfit for life anywhere else.
10The ship's boy, what was in the shrouds, saw 'em on the run and set up a screech: 'Hooray!
11He stayed on deck, making himself useful; you must have been a ship's boy, master, one of the crew said.
12To accept the invitation Columbus set sail on the morning of December the indiscretion of confiding the helm to a ship's boy.
13Amid the heat of battle and the excitement of success, Decatur did not forget little Jack Creamer, the lately enrolled ship's boy.
14I was wearing the clothes of a ship's boy, canvas trousers, thick blucher shoes, a rough check shirt, and a straw hat.
15And he referred once more to the luck of a certain Mr. James Hawkins, ship's boy, late of "Treasure Island."
16She would not leave the port for some weeks; but he had seen the captain, who had agreed to take him as ship's boy.
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