Word: aubrey
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...Jack Aubrey is a fighting captain, brave and beefy, unsubtle except in naval matters and mathematics. Stephen Maturin, Irish and Catalan, sallow and scrawny, is a gifted surgeon who can whip off a shattered arm or leg and Bob's your uncle; he is also a naturalist, a rare linguist, and a shrewd intelligence agent for the British Admiralty...
...civilizing nicety in this most civilized of narrations is that the two are passable amateur musicians. Maturin plays the cello, and as Aubrey admits, "I scrape a little, sir. I torment a fiddle from time to time." As chapters end--chapters of blood, crashing seas and weevily sea biscuit--the two are likely to take solace together, tormenting Locatelli or Boccherini. Friendship, lifelong and ramified, between these two and with recurring minor characters, is the bedrock theme of the novels...
Coach: Liz O'Leary (heavyweights) Aubrey Borland (lightweights...
...varsity boat remained a strong one, having lost only two seniors last year. And second-year Coach Aubrey Borland is not returning after this season, making this spring even more important...
Andrade finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds to share scoring honors with Roberts, who added 15 rebounds. Aubrey Eblin added 17 points...