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Usage examples of britton.

As they drove, Britton remained collected, giving terse directions in the manner of someone accustomed to having her orders obeyed.

It was not simply a polite question to fill the silence: something about Britton intrigued him.

Behind him came Captain Britton, followed by the first mate and several other senior officers.

Two years earlier, Britton had run a tanker onto Three Brothers' Reef off Spitsbergen.

McFarlane watched as Britton helped herself to a cup, adding a single teaspoon of sugar.

The door to the cabin thumped open and Britton approached them, wearing old jeans, a pea jacket, and a battered cap with gold captain's bars.

McFarlane waited for Glinn and Britton to sit down, then followed their lead, lowering himself gingerly into a scuffed wooden chair.

Puppup, who was propped upright between Glinn and Sally Britton, showed no signs of regaining consciousness.

Also, Captain Britton has advised me that a winter storm is moving in our direction.

McFarlane pushed himself away from the frame, nodded to Britton, and turned back toward the waiting room.

He says Captain Britton refuses to send anyone over with the equipment until the storm dies down.

Sally Britton stepped out, a long coat of navy blue wool billowing out behind her.

McFarlane realized this console was a smaller cousin of the mysterious machine Britton had pointed out to him in the cargo control room.

Then, nodding at Britton, he walked out onto the bridge wing nearest the bluff.

Then his glance flickered toward Britton, at the command station with Howell and the deck officer.