How dreary a start before dawn sounds to a landsman!. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
He was a landsman and completely out of place at sea. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
There was no tension between landsman and Seiner now. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
As I turned, the strange landsman kept in step with me. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
A man's years and a boy's body, and the wits of a landsman. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
So come landsman or come pinsman, come tinker or come tailor. From Wordnik.com. [Old Maid in the Garret] Reference
Folley was a landsman which made him a fanatic servant of Pax. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Ours]
And his thought came back to reassure the more clumsy landsman. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
I called Jim, the young landsman, to lend a hand getting the fellow ready. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
This was a civilian, a landsman, who needed the information, and urgently. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Crisis]
“Shall I appoint a mariner to be skipper of my vessel, or a landsman?”. From Wordnik.com. [Memorabilia] Reference
The landsman was relating his experience, as yet only three nights old, of. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
HALL is a landsman, and therefore the proper man to send in search of land. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870] Reference
Kimber asked as if he expected the missing landsman to spring up before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Ours]
I noticed Jim, the young landsman, pass his hand behind him and stand waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
"You got a landsman named ... let's see ... benRabi, Moyshe benRabi, down there?". From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
Amy did not have the background to comprehend what that could mean to a landsman. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
No one in the world could tell such fabulous stories as that landsman of hers from. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
The landsman turned and spat at a hound that approached, showing white teeth and growling. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Ours]
What his duties were here, the author, being in all points a landsman, is unable to describe. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Well, to tell you the truth, Mr Lincoln, it's difficult to explain to a landsman, don't ye know?. From Wordnik.com. [Flash For Freedom]
One of those which refused all honors and maintained their landsman status as a matter of pride. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
This fish story has several rather astonishing features -- at least to an inexperienced landsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
William Cook, impressed upon an occasion at Lynn, with unconscious humour styled himself a landsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
The dead man is in his bed there and his face has on it a heavy look of a sleeping, but troubled, landsman. From Wordnik.com. [Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)] Reference
The place was all silent but for the seaman's snores as he slept the sleep of a landsman upon his coarse pallet. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
All who have performed a voyage, know the feeling of listlessness to which a landsman abandons himself during a calm. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
On one of his explorations he met a landsman who told him about the running down of an emigrant ship, and how he heard. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
He also affected great contempt for the landsman who had lived like a gentleman, and never killed a whale in his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference
'I don't,' said Dunbar, 'for E.W. Smith couldn't row, and with all his sea-going he was a landsman to his finger-tips.'. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
This gentleman, since the time he first turned landsman up to the present date, has been adding fresh laurels to his fame. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
According to him there had been captains among these coves and islets compared with whom Drake was practically a landsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
The fighting commander and the sailing-master were two different men, and the captain of a man-of-war was often a landsman. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
I always found these excellent workers, and specially handy and clever in many ways, where a mere landsman would be at fault. From Wordnik.com. [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference
A landsman, seeing the crew, on an occasion of a fall, leap into the boats in their shirts, imagined that the ship was sinking. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
He could thus hide himself away in places and receptacles from which the average landsman would have turned in fear or disgust. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
In the strengthening sunlight of rising morning the brigantine would not have appealed very strongly to a landsman, or even to a yachtsman. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
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