Sailor

Examples

• I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was a sailor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The sailor with the black beard got out, and spoke to the steward of the Rotterdam steamboat, which was to start next morning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The sailor walked on, looking about him, and apparently not very certain of where he was going next. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• All right now, sir, said the sailor, saluting; got the spikes out. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I will consider that in meeting her to-night I have met with one of those birds whose appearance is to the sailor the harbinger of good luck. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Probably he handed it to some sailor customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• A tall man, sir, with a big black beard, dressed like a sailor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He knows no more of Jack the Giant Killer or of Sinbad the Sailor than he knows of the people in the stars. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is an accomplished sailor and has good sailor judgment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Nothing happened; and nothing more was to be heard, or seen, of the sailor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The sailor, he resumed, asked if he could have a bed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The sailor stopped at an eating-house in the neighbourhood, and went in. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The sailor's hand crept slyly to the butt of one of his revolvers; his wicked eyes glared vengefully at the retreating form of the young Englishman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And such a pilot and ruler will provide and prescribe for the interest of the sailor who is under him, and not for his own or the ruler's interest? Plato. The Republic.
• I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Strange shipping became more frequent, passing the Japanese headlands; sometimes ships were wrecked and sailors brought ashore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From what we know of mankind, we are bound to conclude that the first sailors plundered when they could, and traded when they had to. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The principal productions of these towns,' says Mr. Pickwick, 'appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Some sailors being aloft in the main-topsail rigging, the captain had ordered them to race down, threatening the hindmost with the cat-of-nine-tails. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Only to sit a little while thinking, with your dear face for company, and to hear the wind and remember the poor sailors at sea-- Ah! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The sailors were all in amazement, and asked me a thousand questions, which I had no inclination to answer. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My arrival was like the newly discovered lamp of a lighthouse to sailors, who are weathering some dangerous point. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then a dozen sailors bent to the oars and pulled rapidly toward the point where Tarzan crouched in the branches of a tree. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Two of your infernal sailors threw me overboard. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I will go and have a talk to the sailors. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The men were working backwards toward the little party who were facing away from the sailors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• All over Europe in the fifteenth century merchants and sailors were speculating about new ways to the East. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Poor aristocrats would marry rich members of the mercantile class; ambitious herdsmen, artisans, or sailors would become rich merchants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Marietta