What is "mutineer"

Usage examples of "mutineer".

The mutineer barricades resembled the piles of furniture dumped in the hallways whenever the solid lunar rock floors in the living quarters were resealed.

Amid the confusion, Stark lay flat where his jump had landed him, carefully targeting each mutineer firing a weapon.

His HUD screamed a warning, highlighting a mutineer fumbling with her weapon, and Stark dropped that one as well.

A native-born mutineer, even then Gina had what she called a thing against authority.

Just in case his visitor was a tardy mutineer, he picked up the phaser he had acquired and nicked it into the palm of his hand.

Nay, more: even a mutineer is to go untouched, lest these sacred passengers receive an accidental wound.

Bligh, who stood near the gangway, now made an appeal to the leader of the mutineers, who was on the poop watching him.

Bligh, standing up, raised his clenched hand and cursed the mutineers bitterly, swearing vengeance against those on the ship who would not help him to retake her.

Then for the last time the mutineers heard his voice and they ceased their gibes at the dignity of his tones as he spoke to those whom he thought yet faithful to him on board.

Even had Bligh not heard that defiant cry as the mutineers swung round the yards, Tahiti would be the first place thought of by those who would surely come in search of them.

McCoy, Quintal, Smith, and others of the more active of the mutineers gathered round their leader, while the rest of the men, forming a group on the main deck, were talking in excited tones of what ought to be done for the best.

After making a careful survey of the ship and listening to various suggestions made by the crew for her repair, the leader of the mutineers went ashore for the last time before his marriage, which was to take place on the following day.

They had just arrived from the principal village, where the bodies of those who fell in the attack were brought, and with grim satisfaction the mutineers learnt that fifty-six men and seven women had been killed and twice as many badly wounded, principally by cutlasses and musket slugs.

Pandora, sent out to search for the mutineers, arrived at Tahiti on March 23, 1791.

Gorgon, man-of-war, at the Cape, Edwards and his unfortunate prisoners at last reached England safely, and the mutineers were tried by court--martial.