There would have been nothing comic in this assertion had the redoubtable captain lived in Macedonia.

The redoubtable captain rode the breech, hands in place on the barrel as Smee steadied him against a possible fall.

There sat the redoubtable captain, all the... austerity of his West Point manner melted in the indignity of sneezes and wheezes.... Money!

And the redoubtable captain might well have been, except that in the next instant Peter heard a familiar voice cry out from the docks below.

It was, in fact, the redoubtable Captain Joncaire, the veteran intriguer of the frontier.

Do you know I have actually promised to come and help keep house for you and the redoubtable Captain Ratcliffe?

"And where is the redoubtable Captain Bain, dear?"