Mount Captain Commands

Famous quotes containing the words mount, captain and/or commands:

    My name shall mount upon Eternitie.
    Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

    The boatswain’s mate was very sedate,
    Yet fond of amusement, too;
    And he played hopscotch with the starboard watch,
    While the captain tickled the crew.
    Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)

    How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)