Here you’ll find examples of “Captain” taken directly from published works. These real-life uses highlight how writers put the word into action and provide insight into its place in everyday writing.
Real Examples
My name is John Carter; I am better known as Captain Jack Carter of Virginia.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
15 words, 77 characters
I spent nearly a year prospecting in company with another Confederate officer, Captain James K. Powell of Richmonds.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
18 words, 116 characters
My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the civil war.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
28 words, 146 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
Captain Carter had a small but beautiful cottage, situated on a bluff overlooking the river, and during one of my last visits, in the winter of 1885, I observed he was much occupied in writing, I presume now, upon this manuscript.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
41 words, 230 characters
At the close of the Civil War I found myself possessed of several hundred thousand dollars (Confederate) and a captain’s commission in the cavalry arm of an army which no longer existed; the servant of a state which had vanished with the hopes of the South.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
46 words, 257 characters
I arrived at the little station, about a mile from his grounds, on the morning of March 4, 1886, and when I asked the livery man to drive me out to Captain Carter’s he replied that if I was a friend of the Captain’s he had some very bad news for me; the Captain had been found dead shortly after daylight that very morning by the watchman attached to an adjoining property.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
72 words, 373 characters
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