10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSAILORLIKE»
Discover the use of
unsailorlike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unsailorlike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The inevitable result of such an extraordinary, unusual, and unsailorlike
proceeding was, a violent collision between the two yachts, in which the
schooner struck the cutter on her weather quarter; fortunately for the cutter, the
schooner had ...
the conversation and rousing me from a very unsailorlike revery on the vanity of
all sublunary affairs. I must own I sided with the captain. His picture was a sober,
sad reality. It was the review of a life spent to but little purpose — of energies ...
3
Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
Indeed, they have a most unsailorlike love for the land, and I really believe that in
9. gale of wind they would rather have a rock-bound coast on their lee, than no
coast at all. According to the notions of an English seaman, this kind of navigation
...
Alexander William Kinglake,
1845
4
The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.
This melancholy disaster is but another warning to the members of every yacht
club in England to forbid so dangerous and unsailorlike a practice. It is a mere
system of the lowest possible jockeyism, and such as a gentleman's yacht ought
...
5
The United Service Magazine
M. de Tromelin, commanding the Annibal, the senior captain in the fleet, was
notoriously the soul of a party against De Suffren ; and the disgraceful and
unsailorlike conduct of several of the other captains in the battle of the 3rd
September, was ...
Arthur William Alsager Pollock,
1867
6
60 Years Life/Adventure (2v Set): Sixty Yrs Life Adv Far Et
... he knows nothing, and who, of course, follows his master's example and goes
to sleep too? What else could you expect? Anything more lubberly or unsailorlike
than James Fletcher's conduct throughout the whole affair I can hardly imagine.
7
The Secret of the Sands: the "Water Lily" and Her Crew
Ella expressed hersurprise onceor twice duringthe day, both at the somewhat
abrupt manner inwhich our encampmentonshore was brokenup, andat Bob'
ssudden predilectionfor so unsailorlike an amusement as mountain climbing; but
I ...
8
The Unwilling Adventurer
... added thoughtfully; “for nowhere in the world may a man grow rich so quickly
as there,where the very dust of the earth and ooze of the river sparkles with the
good red gold.” The picture thus drawn by this strange unsailorlike shipmaster of
...
9
I've Been Thinking; Or, the Secret of Success
The sail was hoisted; Peter had untied therope, givingat the same timea sharp
goodnatured lecture toSam,for making his boat fast in such an unsailorlike
manner. Sam took it all in good part, for, in truth, he had not done the thing; it was
some ...
10
A Review of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America: ...
i. p. 414,) though with a great deal of unsailorlike circumlocution, to substitute "
Husband and Wife." It is not for us to say how far this is connected with his
evident wish to fix on England a perpetual liability for the debts and maintenance
of the ...