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A seaman of a British warship
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It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.
‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’
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The Navy and the Indian tribes up and down the Coast took part in the races, the Navy rowing their heavy ship's boats round from Esquimalt Harbour, manned by blue-jackets, while smart little pinnaces “pip-pipped” along commanded by young midshipmen.
An enlisted man in the US Navy.
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[…] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.
A uniformed policeman.
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He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.
An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).
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a serviceman in the navy
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