120 examples of lubbers in sentences

Most of them appeared to be able seamen, and Haines drove them mercilessly, cursing them for lubbers, and twice kicking viciously at a stooping form.

lay low, ye lubbers!

He begged my pardonSaw no objection, indeed!But might he be allowed once more No matterno matterI would have shown them to my mother, I said, who, though of no inn of court, knew more of these things than half the lounging lubbers of them; and that at first sightonly that she would have been angry at the confession of our continued correspondence.

It's very much as it is with the talk of the sea growing strange to you from hearing nothing but lubbers who don't know a mizzen-mast from a church-steeple.

"I'll shame ye all, then, for a set of cowardly lubbers!"

Paulus Jovius in his description of Britain, and Levinus Lemnius, observe as much of this our island, that there was of old no use of [4083]physic amongst us, and but little at this day, except it be for a few nice idle citizens, surfeiting courtiers, and stall-fed gentlemen lubbers.

Our captain was a jolly sort of fellow, and would have us land-lubbers believe that his experienced eye could see half across the ocean, but he found we were too smart for him, when he told us he could see a church-steeple looming up on the island, for of course we knew that such things were not raised there.

I took one of my carpet bags for a pillow and lay down on the planks, where I succeeded in getting a little sleep between the groans of the helpless land-lubbers.

You must not take us for land-lubbers who strike up a chance acquaintance with any and everyone!

All we poor "land-lubbers" were suffering from sea sickness.

Hurry up, you lubbers," he shouted in his excitement; "every minute is precious, and you've wasted time enough, surely.

And as to awkward squads, men that would have been the veriest louts and lubbers in the piping times of peace now learned to toe the mark, to whisk their eyes right and their eyes left, to drop the butts of their muskets without crushing their corns, and all the mysteries of flank and file,and so became full-fledged heroes before they knew it.

His hardest duty was supposed to be shinning up the ratlin to "reef," or "brail up," or "splice the mainbrace," or do some other of those mysterious things that caused him to look so mythical to the minds of land-lubbers and the simple-hearted kind of women that used to be, but now no longer are.

And so God save our noble king, And guard us from long-winded lubbers, That to eternity would sing, And keep my lady from her rubbers.

That ye are villains, is to be proved, in your teeth, by your getting your sailing orders from the devil; and that ye are lubbers, any man may see by the fashion in which ye have rove this cord about my throat.

We've given you tragedies, all sense defying, And singing men, in woful metre dying; This 'tis when heavy lubbers will be flying.

Softly undulating is the swell, scarce perceptible to inexperienced eyes, such as those of the land-lubbers on the towering decks of the great liners; gleaming dead copper and blue in the morning sun, flecked with spectral white in the distancethe easy roll of untrammelled waters!

We're used to it, but it's ticklish business for land-lubbers."

"Closer and closer," lamented the captain, "what's the matter with those lubbers?

I'll have the law of somebody for shipping two useless lubbers as seamen.

Many more fools I heartily pray may follow his example, Lawyers, or Lubbers, or of what condition, And many such sweet friends in Nova Hispania.

He swore at his luck in having to ship land-lubbers, but took me on; and before we reached Southportnow KenoshaI was good enough so that he wanted me to ship back with him.

OLD MORALITY, standing up, hitching his trousers at the belt, scraping his right foot behind him, and pulling his forelock, retorted "I ask your honour's pardon; but these lubbers are so long-winded.

"What sail is so heavily flapping?" "Little harm done, Sirlittle harmbear a hand with the tackle on that fore-yard-arm, you lubbers!

" "I tell your reverence," said Sir Peregrine, "crooked stick though they term him, I had ten times rather have the dealing with him than with those comely great lubbers his brothers!

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