10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAILORLIKE»
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The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern ...
But Melville's equation of Billy and Nelson in the tale's opening chapters may be
meant to emphasize in addition that Nelson represents simplicity and sailorlike
honesty on the highest level. Each epitomizes the sailor's harmonic mode. Just
as ...
Richard H. Weisberg,
1984
2
The Life of George Borrow
As I was walking in the street at Newcastle a sailorlike man came running up to
me, and begged that I would let him speak to me. He appeared almost wild with
joy. I asked him who he was, and he told me he was a Yarmouth north beach
man, ...
Clement King Shorter,
1928
3
The perils of trusts and trustees: illustrated by unreported ...
This was accordingly done shortly afterwards : the officer, sailorlike, signed the
printed power of attorney in the office of the stockbroker, without reading it. The
receipt and payment of the dividends then went on as usual, and with the ...
Robert de Neufville Lucas,
1860
4
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons ...
Admiral Sigsbee, in accepting the high mission with which he had been charged,
delivered a brief, appropriate, and eminently sailorlike address, which was
warmly received. Eight American blue jackets now stepped forward and bore the
...
Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia,
1907
5
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
... been charged, delivered a brief, appropriate, and eminently sailorlike address,
which was warmly received. Eight American blue-jackets now stepped forward
and bore the coffin solemnly from the church. They had been carefully selected ...
Besides, he had in his love matters a kind of rough country folks' philosophy, a
sailorlike sort of habit of mind. Always smitten but never enslaved, he boasted of
having been in his youth easily conquered by a petticoat, or rather a cotillon ; for
...
7
De Quincey memorials: Being letters and other records, here ...
There he was wrong ; me they should have cut to pieces before I would have
betrayed him." Recalling Pink's accounts of those journeys, sailorlike in frank
precision, De Quincey sets down this passage in his sketch : — "Two
circumstances of ...
Thomas De Quincey, Alexander Hay Japp,
1891
Molyneux, the friend of Lock, who published his " Case of Ireland," to be burned
by order of the English parliament, and the hands of the common hangman. t The
term, according to some writers, was the more frank and sailorlike one of" ...
9
The Blue Jar Story Book
The first mate made a great character for bravery, and all sailorlike
accomplishments; but with all this he had a gentleness of manners, and a pale,
feminine cast of face, from ill-health and a weakly constitution, which subjected
him to some ...
10
The Girl He Married: A Novel
tumultuous breakers that boiled and roared over the black ridge of the reef. "
Lower away the quarter boat — stand by the fall-tackles I" cried Moreno, and with
the sailorlike assistance and the strong hands of Kit Kentledge it was lowered
and ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAILORLIKE»
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Keira Knightley Wore a Fake Crop Top to Chanel
The actress wore a sailorlike skirt and crop top from the spring couture collection, featuring a modest and somewhat odd tube of black fabric around her midriff. «New York Magazine, Mar 14»