skipper-like

Updated: May 2, 2025

There were the captain's two, Trumpet and Jip, who, by virtue of their reflected rank and authority, held places of privilege and pickings under the table, and were jealous and overbearing as became a captain's favorites, snubbing and bullying their more accomplished and versatile guests, the circus dogs, with skipper-like growls and snarls and snaps.

Anna Harriette Leonowens - The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

Here Solomon Gills lived, in skipper-like state, all alone with his nephew, Walter; a boy of fourteen, who looked quite enough like a midshipman to carry out the prevailing idea. It is half past five o'clock, and an autumn afternoon.

Kate Dickinson Sweetser - Ten Girls from Dickens

Here he lived too, in skipper-like state, all alone with his nephew Walter: a boy of fourteen who looked quite enough like a midshipman, to carry out the prevailing idea.

Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son