Citations:crew


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * I am singled out and separated, But I am singled out, too, from as it were, from all the world, all the ship’s crew, to be spared to be miserable. from death; and He that miraculously saved me from death can deliver me from this condition.
 * Why wert thou not drowned in Yarmouth Roads; killed in the fight when the ship was taken by the Sallee man-of-war; devoured by the wild beasts on the coast of Africa; or drowned here, when all the crew perished but thyself?
 * She had, no doubt, a great treasure in her, but of no use, at that time, to anybody; and what became of the crew I then knew not.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services.