Only a few days ago, Brig had been a common seaman.

For the rest of this moon you are demoted to common seaman.

But what's a common seaman to you and me might be somebody pretty strange to somebody else.

So a ship master would cost more than a common seaman.

You can't put me in irons like a common seaman.

It would never do to have a common seaman lay bare the back of a king's officer.

Of course, an archbishop had rather more dietary options than a common seaman.

What's more, I'd lay money that he was a common seaman once.

I will send them to the Cape with the common seamen.

Just a few weeks before Pender had been a common seaman.