16 examples of landlubber in sentences

The waves rolled high, and the little schooner plunged about in a manner frightful to a landlubber.

He knew as little about a ship as a landlubber might be supposed to know, and his companion saw at once that he would make a mess of the story, so he came to his rescue by informing the assembly that a fine vocalist at the other end of the room was going to sing, and asked that the story be deferred until after the song.

" "An' are you ever sea-sick,like a 'landlubber?'" "I used to be, but I got over it.

Then I perceived that the hawks, with all their practice, were no better than landlubbers.

And ceaselessly the engine-room telegraph tinkled, and the handy little craft, with death and terror written in her workmanlike lines for the seaman, for all her slim insignificance to the landlubber on the towering decks of the great liner, swung smartly through the crowded water-way out to the perils lurking 'neath the seeming smile of the open sea: the guardian angel of our commerce it went, to meetwhat Heaven alone could foretell!

Only landlubbers never lose their boats.

And while she was making her way thither, the captain had to amuse himself like any landlubber, contemplating the ferocious chase and laborious digestion of these monsters.

Landlubbers of the landlubbers though we were, its water-gypsy charm yet sank deep.

Landlubbers of the landlubbers though we were, its water-gypsy charm yet sank deep.

Then too the houseboater is usually quite a landlubber after all; so that even if the boat is strong enough to meet an angry sea, the owner's stomach is not.

" When we sat down to our Thanksgiving dinner, we felt almost like landlubbers again; for while our home acre was a watery one and Gadabout, boat-like, swung and swayed, yet we had real neighbours up on the bluff and there was even a church next door.

You come from the land and feel the change of air; we are at sea all the time," he replied, He was without a great-coat; and the ease with which he held his footing made landlubbers feel their awkwardness.

A part of it was how, at the right interval, they assisted the landlubber to step from gunwale to gangway, making him feel perfectly safe when he would have been perfectly helpless but for them.

Leastways that's the opinion of your humble servant and admirer, A TAX-PAYING LANDLUBBER.

I had a dim recollection of reading something in Cooper's novels about a ship's deadheads and cat's eyes, or cat-heads and deadeyes, I could not remember which, and, determined not to be ignored as an inexperienced landlubber, I gazed in a vague way into the rigging, and made a few very general observations upon the nature of deadeyes and spanker-booms.

" "Oh, you dum landlubber!" smirked Glover.

16 examples of  landlubber  in sentences