"Seamanlike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comes to rich women uncontrolled. They weary of their own power. Tyranny palls. Mrs. Harrington was longing to be thwarted by some one stronger than herself. The FitzHenrys even in their boyhood had, by their sturdy independence, their simple, seamanlike self-assertion, touched some chord in this lone woman's heart which would not vibrate to ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... smiling at the grandeur of Dick's emphasis on the all, when twenty hands, one—third of them boys, and the rest landsmen, scrambled up from below, and began to pull and haul in no very seamanlike ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... of the Japanese destroyers in the Mediterranean were of considerable value to the Allied cause. A striking instance of the seamanlike and gallant conduct of their officers and men was furnished on the occasion of the torpedoing of a British transport by an enemy submarine off the coast of Italy, when by the work of the Japanese escorting destroyers ...
— The Crisis of the Naval War • John Rushworth Jellicoe |
