| The rocket was in position, and about to be fired, when our black-bearded coastguardsman arrived. |
| When the coastguardsman is going out to the wreck, it isn't necessary to wave your arms about like a windmill. |
| Septimus Minor had lived in Crocusville ever since he could remember, and the coastguardsman some years longer. |
| This the coastguardsman did for them at once, and, as he did so, observed that there were two little girls among the crew. |
| But the daring coastguardsman had already seized the thin line and plunged into the boiling surf. |
| You did not know, did you, who was the coastguardsman that stumbled as he came on us that night? |
