The man snarled like a beast, leaped back and plucked from his seaman's belt a great horse-pistol.

I knew the seaman's trick of throwing, having seen their brawls at the pier of Leith, and I had no notion for the steel in my throat.

" "Ducie is a fine, manly fellow, and has a seaman's generosity and sincerity.

Yet it proved to be but a seaman's chest, and a space further off, we discovered another.

"This is not the seaman's usual way of thinking," returned our hero, after regarding his companion for a moment, a little intently.

Has he knowledge of a seaman's duty?

Maso had watched the crisis with a seaman's eye, a seaman's resources, and a seaman's coolness.

Maso had watched the crisis with a seaman's eye, a seaman's resources, and a seaman's coolness.

"'The seaman's cry was heard along the deep.'

He died in the morning, but it was not until the evening that he was prepared for a seaman's grave.

"If you had only waited till night, Miles," Marble said, shaking his head as one menaces, "Neb and I would have shown that bloody gaol a seaman's fashion of quitting it.

"There is a sight"he said, pointing towards the low blue ridges of the land"that forms the lands-man's delight, and the seaman's terror.

His look passed, with a seaman's care, from sail to sail; and not a brace, yard, or bow-line escaped the quick understanding glances he cast about him, before he proceeded to the side, in order to enter a boat which he had already ordered to be in waiting.

D'ye see?" De Catinat again nodded, though in truth the seaman's metaphors left him with but a very general sense of his meaning.

One by one, therefore, the men on guard had crept away and had assembled at the back to cheer the seaman's shot and to groan as the remaining canoe sped like a bloodhound down the river in the wake of the fugitives.

He had less imagination, and foresaw consequences and effects less vividly than his officer, and was more accustomed to the vicissitudes of a seaman's life.

Shoal in a seaman's sense, though not in shallow water; the soundings being from fifteen to twenty fathoms, with a rocky bottom.

In one of the seaman's pockets was found a packet of papers yellow with age.

I had the affliction, some time after, to see the corpse of a drowned boy come on shore, at the end of the island which was next the shipwreck; there was nothing on him but a seaman's waistcoat, a pair of opened kneed linen drawers, and a blue linen shirt, but no particular mark to guess what nation he was of.

" The pretty boy of two years was dressed in a child's frock taken from his mother's trunk, which had come to shore, laid in a seaman's chest, and buried in the sand, while the sailors, who loved him, stood around, weeping.

DAVIS, JOHN, an English navigator, born near Dartmouth; took early to the sea; conducted (1585-1587) three expeditions to the Arctic Seas in quest of a NW. passage to India and China, as far N. as 73°; discovered the strait which bears his name; sailed as pilot in two South Sea expeditions, and was killed by Japanese pirates near Malacca; wrote the "Seaman's Secret" (1550-1605).

Then, by the flicker of the fire, we saw a low truckle-bed close under the window; a kind of bruised and battered seaman's chest in the middle of the room; a heap of firewood in one corner; a pile of old packing-cases; old sail-cloth, old iron, and all kinds of rubbish in another; a few pots and pans over the fire-place; and a dilapidated stool or two standing about the room.

" "He is a seaman, my lord, and he reads his instructions with a seaman's simplicity.

The alarm which brings the blood in the swiftest current to a seaman's heart, was now heard in the depths of the vessel.

'Twill be better for thy happiness that none know the history of the brigantine; and a few hours will draw a hundred curious eyes, from the town, upon us." "What care I for their opinions?thou wilt notcannotleave me, yet!" "Gladly would I stay, Eudora, but a seaman's home is his ship.