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Usage examples of cairns.

It was Cairns, the first lieutenant, who like most of the others had been aboard since the ship had recommissioned in 1775 after being laid up in Bristol where she had originally been built.

Two bright patches of scarlet by the larboard side, the marine officers, D'Esterre and Lieutenant Raye, and of course Cairns, completed the gathering.

He caught the gust of laughter from the wardroom and said to Cairns, 'They seem happier at sea, eh?

He had seen the activity beneath the poop, Pears with Cairns entering the small chart room which adjoined Bunce's cabin.

That was very unusual, for Cairns was always smartly turned out, no matter how bad the circumstances.

Molesworth, the nervous-looking purser, was waiting by the mizzen, and Bolitho guessed that Cairns was going ashore with him to bolster his dealings with the victuallers, who, like ships' chandlers, thought more of personal profit than patriotism.

This was not the weather for it, but then, it never was, as Cairns had often remarked.

It took a few moments to find the little sloop-of-war, their only companion on this 'adventure', as Cairns had described it.

It was mad when you considered it, he was even older than Cairns by a year or two.

He had to bring the French officer because Cairns was busy on the quarterdeck and everyone else was too junior.

Ile had heard him asking, pleading with Cairns to be allowed to come with the landing party.

He had expected D'Esterre, or perhaps Cairns, once he had completed his duties with the watch on deck.

James Cairns stood, huddled in a fur cloak, on the castle's ancient battlement and gazed at the ship as it slid across the sky from the east, a glowing zeppelin at least three hundred meters long.

As it passed almost directly overhead at a thousand meters, Cairns was briefly amused to see that among the patterns picked out in lights on its sides were the squiggly signature-scribble of Coca-Cola.

Cairns knew that if he dwelt on the strangeness of the sight, the feeling of unreality could make him physically nauseous: la nausée, Sartre's old existential insecurity -- Cairns wondered, not for the first time, how the philosopher would have coped with a situation as metaphysically disturbing as this.