Seamen

Examples

• Small black clouds thus appearing in a clear sky, in hot climates portend storms, and warn seamen to hand their sails. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Venetian and Genoese ships were creeping round to Antwerp, and the Hansa town seamen were coming south and extending their range. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The seamen soon knew whence I came last: they were curious to inquire into my voyages and course of life. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Come, he said, and we followed him through the hatchway which had been opened by one of the seamen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I had been in Yarmouth when the seamen said it blew great guns, but I had never known the like of this, or anything approaching to it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They were great seamen because they were great traders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What if he told them that two insubordinate seamen had been roughly handled by their officers? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• We divided ourselves, like seamen, into watches, and some reposed, while others prepared the morning's repast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Their wages are not greater than those of common labourers at the port which regulates the rate of seamen's wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That soldiers and seamen, who must march and labour in the sun, should in the East or West Indies have a uniform of white? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The seamen at their landing observed my canoe, and rummaging it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• To wile away the time till your father comes,' he said,--'pray is there much robbing and murdering of seamen about the water-side now? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Some twenty souls in all there were, fifteen of them rough and villainous appearing seamen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• One of the seamen, in Portuguese, bid me rise, and asked who I was. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But so far as the sailors go, we have to distinguish between the mere rower and the navigating and shipowning seamen of such ports as Tyre and Sidon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But one of the seamen prevented me, and having informed the captain, I was chained to my cabin. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Seamen say the nautilus is only found in these waters between the 35th and 45th parallels of latitude. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The seamen would find it easy to make nests upon islands and in strong positions on the mainland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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