Sentence examples for a helmsman from inspiring English sources

He clutches the twig-dial with little hands like a helmsman prefiguring close lands.

"The boat was extremely well sailed," said Robbie Haines, an Olympic gold medalist who was a helmsman aboard Pyewacket.

In August Heat, he turns a Dante quote about Italy's being "a ship without a helmsman" into a reflection on the country's having, in the media magnate turned prime minister, "a helmsman it could do without".

It helps to have a helmsman at the bridge of the ship of state reassuring his countrymen of Britain's natural decency when the country is also materially prosperous.

No matter which way a helmsman turns the wheel, the boat sits there, bobbing as aimlessly as a piece of driftwood.

In his De regimine principum (1266; On the Government of Princes), he compares society to a ship in need of a helmsman and repeats Aristotle's definition of man as a social and political animal.

While more common in subsequent years, in the 1960s it was controversial to feature an Enterprise crew that included a Japanese helmsman, a Russian navigator, a black female communications officer, and a Vulcan-Human first officer.

Up on the bridge, a Russian helmsman in a blue jump suit and matching Adidas sneakers skillfully guided the ship through clear "leads" of water whenever possible.

Her husband earns $50 a month as a tugboat helmsman.

The Pilot and Captain worked together on the ship's bridge (with a live Helmsman, who had no EDA monitor), while the Tug Master operated a separate simulated vessel from a remote control centre.

In the Hobart race, between bouts of nausea, Ellison took a regular turn at the wheel, and he is said to be a good helmsman.