"Seamanlike" Quotes from Famous Books
... not help 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 fashion. He noticed it. ... — Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... Lank drag up from the beach the twenty-foot dory and hoist it up between the wheels. Through the forward part of the keelson they bored a hole for the king-bolt. With nut-bolts they fastened the stern to the rear axle, adding some very seamanlike lashings to stay the boat in place. As finishing touches they painted the upper strakes of the dory white, giving to the lower part and to the running-gear of the ... — Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford |