In a good, old landlubberly manner we hitched Gadabout to a tree and waited to see if the rising tide would make a way for us. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
Or they asserted that all those landlubberly creatures had walked dry-shod across a natural bridge or had swum short distances between stepping-stones, and that one such formation or another had since disappeared beneath the waves. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
Mr. Todd, would visit the bark and offer interfering suggestions, after the manner of captains, which only embarrassed the officers; and Mr. Todd would take advantage of these occasions to make landlubberly comments and show a sad ignorance of things nautical. From Wordnik.com. ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference
To Gadabout and her crew, add anchors, chains and ropes, small boats, poles and sweeps, parallel rulers, dividers and charts, anchor-lights, lanterns and side-lights, compasses, barometers and megaphones, fenders, grapnels and boathooks -- until the landlubberly owners are almost frightened back to solid land; and then all is ready for a houseboat cruise. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
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