| 单词 | landsman |
| 例句 | No one can say for sure where he was killed, whether some hostile landsmen or the sea, the stormwaves on the deep sea, got the best of him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “He was with a landsman—er, friend, I think? I’m sorry. I don’t know.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Now he saw the landsman's view of the swell and it seemed like the breathing of some stupendous creature. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It was supposed to be the home of a landsman, a good man who would help us find work. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I think he is trying to communicate with his landsmen using expressions that are unique to a very small population. Perspective | Ask Amy: Husband speaks Welsh, but wife says “na” 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z A native of New Jersey then introduced himself as a landsman, and as the son of an insurance broker. Philip Roth Is Good for the Jews 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z At a Friday late-afternoon Shabbat service, I ran into a robust gaggle of landsmen — as well as into a lovely older Presbyterian couple from my guesthouse, who were seeking Shabbat peace because — who wouldn’t? An Edification Vacation 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z She married a landsman, who became a diamond merchant; in the early nineteen-fifties, the couple resettled in the Bronx, and some fifteen years later, as empty-nesters, they went back to Israel. A Tribute to Women Who Reinvent Themselves, in Two Wardrobes at the Met 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The Jewish minority in Berlin were betting on assimilation and acceptance, trying to distance themselves from their more alien landsmen to the east. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z One day, from the bus driver’s accent, my father recognized that he was a landsman, a fellow countryman. A Landsman Drives the Bus 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z He had the tolerance of a landsman, the faith that comes with witnessing the changing seasons year in and year out. The 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time 2012-07-25T14:05:00Z The same Providence watches over the seaman as the landsman. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z For landsmen the moral of it all is summed up in this golden rule:— "Stick close to your desk and never go to sea And you all may be rulers of the Queen's Navee." The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z In the merchant service a “green hand” of forty may be rated as a boy; a landsman must ship for boy’s wages on the first voyage. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z And even as breakers have no peril for landsmen, so, safe in her husband's home, Helen did not fear the grumbles of the folk he ruled. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Many of the episodes which strike a landsman forcibly, and add greatly to the picturesque ensemble of his narration, are taken by the seaman as mere matters of course. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z A few pieces of tobacco were thrown into their canoes and then they commenced throwing fish aboard, and such fish for a landsman to look at! Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z You might ask some of the landsmen here to lend me a hand to get her off. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z A landsman would have thought his last hour had come. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Stories innumerable have been told of his childlike innocence of landsmen’s ways, and pictures and caricatures without end have been drawn and painted with the object of making men smile at his strange doings. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z He has not that sentimental affection for the sea which inspires the life-on-the-ocean-waves' verse written by landsmen who know Neptune only by week-end visits in the summer time. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z What a disgrace that landsmen Leave our lord royal Unsupported. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z Could the history of every one on board the Alde be told, it would make the blood curdle in the veins of many a stout landsman. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z Their long habit of keeping watches on shipboard renders them more reliable than landsmen to turn out in all kinds of weather, or on a sudden call. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z You and I are both landsmen; unlike you, I adventured forth, to gain gold, and fight the don Spaniards, if so the fates should ordain. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z When the landsman first ventures on the waves he observes with alarm the keeling over of the boat under the breeze, for he expects the tendency to be followed to its logical conclusion. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Every article that is to a landsman an article and nothing more, is to him an individual with a will and mind of his own. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z You will only be, after all, a lubberly landsman. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z The captains of these coast craft know every tree and rock and river mouth for four hundred miles, and make their way through tortuous channels by markings that no landsman can see. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z “A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea” is one of the best of our sea-songs, although written by a landsman; and many other of Cunningham’s songs will bear comparison with it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z He was chewing tobacco and scowling, but did not move as the landsman approached. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z "There's many a landsman laughs; but sailors, you says, says you, 'comes home with watches in their 'ands more than they can 'old and sets up for gentle-folk,' says you." The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z Yet the young landsman wanted to know more of distant countries than young Laud, who had only been a coasting trader, could tell him. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z The ship rolled considerably, and the water gushed into some of the lower ports, which made some of the landsmen who slept in the cable tier imagine she was sinking. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z As yet, there was only a fresh breeze to take note of, so far as a landsman could have discerned. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z Stevenson and Kipling are but observant landsmen after all. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Still," he said, "to a landsman like myself there's something uncanny about a submarine. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z He was a good judge of men, both of sailors, landsmen, gentry, and men of business. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z His statement implicated Lord Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty, who, to serve his political purposes, had filled the vacant posts at the Hospital with certain landsmen. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z It is true that the old sailor will recognize a ship in the horizon, or any other distant object at sea, sooner than a landsman. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z Both Allan and Ralph were pretty well used to all Rory’s queer, passionate, and impulsive ways, and so they always gave him what sailors call “plenty of rope,” and landsmen call “latitude.” The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z He was not your beau ideal of a sailor quite, being rather tall, thin, and dressed like a landsman. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z That would be going round the world in one sense—a landsman’s not a sailor’s sense. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z There were nineteen sovereigns and twelve half-sovereigns in his belt; all the same, he was enough of a landsman to know the value of money. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z At that gallant sight in my landsman's heart I rejoice—and rejoice still more That I'm only aboard of a road-car 'bus, With the Union Jack at the fore! Mr. Punch on the Warpath Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces 2011-11-28T03:00:24.727Z With this knowledge, commending himself to the kind God who rules and governs all things, his slumbers will be deeper and sweeter, I do verily believe, than any that ever a landsman knows. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z It seems rather remarkable that a bird that lives in or over the sea during its whole life, should prove a landsman when taken on board. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Retaliation ought to be practised, and if we have not a sufficient number of marine officers and seamen in our power to make the objects of it, why would it be improper to substitute landsmen? The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. 2011-11-03T02:00:18.037Z To a landsman—and these were landsmen all—a sailor is a sailor. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z That's all I got out of him; and the motion served him as it serves most landsmen, and he dropped asleep just where you see him there. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z A steady breeze was blowing from the west-sou’-west, a breeze that made the landsman’s heart glad. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z "Agrippa, or I am a landsman!" a sailor shouted. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z And if we talk of these when we come on shore, you landsmen look incredulous. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z It would be a great thing in Ginger's opinion for so young a sailor to be taken in hand by a landsman of experience until he got a bit more used to terrier firmer. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z The pitch from the gas companies’ representatives, known as landsmen, were effective, she said. Green Blog: Remorse Breeds Rebellion Against Fracking 2011-09-23T16:53:27Z The landsmen tell it—I have heard You are useless. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z A sailor will laugh at a storm that is full of terrors to the landsman, for it is certain that familiarity with danger does breed contempt. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z The steward was too much of a landsman to venture, so Harry volunteered. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z I was to have a screen berth, or what a landsman would call a canvas tent, on the main or fighting deck, but as yet it was not rigged. Medical Life in the Navy 2011-09-08T02:00:20.387Z “Downstairs,” as landsmen would say, she was fitted up with a view to the utmost comfort. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z The last were at length settled more or less firm, the owner, or the responsible landsman seeing to it. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z My banqueting eyes foreswore my waiting ships; I was a silly landsman at your lips. Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z But when word gets out that the great goat was doubly chosen — that the baseballer most identified with victimhood was born to a Jewish mother — will his landsmen hold him dear? For Branca, an Asterisk of a Different Kind 2011-08-15T03:08:23Z One was a well-dressed man, evidently a landsman, and Tom had never seen him before. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z Strangers, too, crowd on board—landsmen with long hats and umbrellas; lands-women who care less for a ship than they do for a barn. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z But there is many a wonder of the sea that landsmen don’t know about, sir.” Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z We say sailors, but in saying so we do not mean to imply that they resembled your genuine old salt, but something between a sailor and a landsman. Fire Cloud The Mysterious Cave. A Story of Indians and Pirates. 2011-08-09T02:00:29.010Z This, however, was but poor consolation to landsmen, who had not been accustomed to such duckings. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z We felt not unlike the landsman who for the first time loses sight of the shore, and feels the heaving of the broad ocean under his feet. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z It may be asked what were two ladies and four learned landsmen doing on board a ship bound for the icy North? In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z Suppose you attempt to furnish it after a landsman’s idea. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Edward and Mr. Howard lingered on the beach; the well-practiced eye of the former tracing in many little things unseen to landsmen, the slow, but sure approach of a fearful storm. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z The Board of Trade scale of provisions for the Mercantile Marine must strike every landsman as being a most absurd compilation. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z "Do you remember what a neatly turned ankle she had, sir?" said Dogvane, who, like all sailors and not a few landsmen, had a great admiration for the ladies. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z I’ve seen landsmen both on board ship and ashore who could give points in that line to the scarriest old Jack-tar who ever munched salt horse, and knock him hollow at that.” The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z You landsmen don’t mind what you do ashore, but no sooner do you come aboard than you’re as nice with your conscience as a lady’s-maid with her mistress’s borrowed gown. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z No, Mr. Grahame; you landsmen don't know what liberty is, if you talk of imprisonment in a ship! Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z What this means is, I am afraid, impossible to make clear to a landsman. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The unaccustomed motion began to tell upon the landsmen. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z But at sea we have to take a lot of chances—a sight more than you landsmen would dream of, I don’t mind telling you.” The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z How, Morris wondered, could they expect anything save sickness and misery on a ship when they took aboard an additional hundred or two hundred landsmen sure to be seasick for the whole of the voyage? Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z "Look aloft" cried the captain; and the fainting landsman, as he instinctively obeyed the order, recovered his strength and steadiness. Rambles of a Naturalist 2011-06-04T02:00:13.503Z No landsman, no amateur yachtsman, could write a book like this. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z I had 18 6-pounders and 45 men, 19 never at sea before, boys and landsmen. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z The bulwarks and outside fittings, anchors, hawsers, and hawse-holes, seemed wonderfully large to our landsman eyes, and the inside fittings, lockers, etc., as wonderfully small and compact. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z "Ay," interposed another of the group, who by his apron and his turned-up sleeves was evidently an artisan and a landsman. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z And, indeed, to a landsman the nodding schooners around seemed run from the same mould. Captains Courageous 2011-04-22T02:00:10.677Z Lying in a hammock that had been swung low, so that its occupant almost lay upon the floor, was the young landsman. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z She carried 18 six-pounders and a crew of 64, half of them boys and landsmen on their first voyage. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z "What mean these preparations?" inquired the earl; "for I profess to be better landsman than seaman." Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z It was a daring act; so daring that, landsman as I was, I deemed it almost foolhardy. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z The interior Salish are landsmen and hunters, and from time immemorial have been accustomed to follow their game over mountainous country. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Perhaps one hundred more had seen service in deep-sea craft, and had made long cruises; but the rest, numbering probably one hundred and fifty, were longshoremen or landsmen. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z The faces of the landsmen had an added ghastliness from seasickness, but they were all bad enough to look upon,—seamen and soldiers alike. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z I congratulate both your lordship and your niece on your escape from a grave in the sea, for which landsmen, I am told, have a strange antipathy. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z The girl had appealed with elfin charm, though he knew no more of women than landsmen know of the mysteries of the sea. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Yes, I shall go abroad again," he thought presently, "and go over the whole dreary beat once more—like Marryat's phantom captain turned landsman, like the Wandering Jew in a Poole-built travelling dress. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z During the night the storm developed into that elemental chaos which the landsman exaggerates into a hurricane and the sailor logs as a strong northwesterly gale. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z But her interpreter must be a seaman, and not a landsman. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z All of which raises the question: Will Mr. James, who hails from Akron, Ohio, remain at home, persuaded by his landsmen’s earnestness and self-deprecating humor? To Lure a Star, New York Catches LeBron Fever 2010-06-05T01:08:00Z The T.B. was rolling too much for any one to walk the tiny deck of the bridge; in fact, a landsman would have had difficulty in standing at all. H.M.S. —— A voyage to America, in the present day, gives a landsman less concern than a voyage between London and Leith did in those days. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 Well, I'm only a lubber, you know," answered True, "and have but a landsman's notion of things. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies A landsman could not even interpret his journals, written frequently in the hieroglyphics of the sea. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z With the bewildered gropings of a shipwrecked landsman she was struggling to get her bearings, she for whom the earth had been especially designed. The Reclaimers To a landsman we carry on in an aimless fashion.' The Unknown Sea She accented the word "cavalier," in the contemptuous manner in which a sailor talks about a landsman. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. "I can row if you'll free my hand," I exclaimed, not relishing the prospect of a watery grave, which was inevitable if this boatload of landsmen were once overturned. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne That undulatory cadence is entirely lacking in landsmen's tones. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories "Well done for a landsman!" cried the skipper; "port the helm, and keep away." Tony Butler Before a landsman could believe it possible, the mysterious dark line had spread over the sky, and there was a hissing sound as of coming breakers. Little Miss Joy But—and this is of the essence of the whole matter—for the landsman it has also a lesson of a very different kind. Naval Warfare Well, of course, though a landsman in every sense of the word, I am fond of yachting, and I immediately accepted the invitation. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder He was but a landsman,—dull and ignorant besides, outside his library. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 The landsman thinks of the sea as barren, and he regrets that it is not solid land on which he may grow grass and cattle. The Holy Earth And now begins a brief period of bustling activity, which to a landsman would seem like confusion itself confounded. Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 This doubtless seems strange to a great many unobservant landsmen, who know that ships are usually made as pointed and sharp as possible at the bow. Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 And yet they paused and looked about in quickened perception, with the clutch at the throat that takes the landsman on big waters. Where the Pavement Ends Then at last Evan Evans lurches up, a full three sheets in the wind, and as thick-headed as the thickest landsman. Seven Frozen Sailors This, then, is the landsman's obligation, and his joyful privilege. The Holy Earth Why, just drive ahead and trust to luck; and that’s what brings us through far oftener than you landsmen ever dream.” A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance "We'll show these landsmen before this little scrimmage is over, that we old shell-backs are not web-footed when it comes to obeying orders." Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington At last the talk turned upon animals and one sailor, who was no older than these young landsmen, remarked: “Speakin’ of monkeys, I’ve got a dandy pair right down in the hold now. Dorothy on a House Boat The sea became rough for a landsman; and Monsieur not unnaturally felt squeamish. Seven Frozen Sailors Our hearts are not steeled, as are landsmen's, by daily habit. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Grace was then handed into the boat—a ticklish business to the eyes of a landsman, but performed with amazing despatch and ease by the rough seaman who passed her over and received her. A Marriage at Sea I might as well have asked some landsman, Yonder down in the town. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The most of those to be had were landsmen. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read And to prove it the work of a landsman he began his own story, The Pilot. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 To a landsman or even a professional seaman who has never experienced the sensation it would be impossible to convey a realizing sense of the feelings aroused by our sudden misfortune. The Last Cruise of the Saginaw A similar policy is often quite as necessary in the society of landsmen. The Intellectual Life Alas! that day this fisherman Had taken too much grog; And, being but a landsman, too, He couldn't keep the log! The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 But the most of them were landsmen, chiefly haymakers, for Machias lay amid grassy meadows and the making of hay was its chief business. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read Down in the engine-room and stokeholds, in conditions which can hardly be imagined by the ordinary landsman, men were still working with a grim and stoic heroism. Titanic In pride of his ancient trade, the seaman may perceive an importance and vital instrumentality in the ships and their voyages that may not be so evident to the landsman. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Sail was taken in, masts lowered and yards stayed—preparations which bespoke no good tidings to the inquiring and terrified landsman. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment A rocket!" repeated he, contemptuously; "that's some landsman's story thou hast been listening to. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II Yet she had been taken by a party of landsmen, with muskets against cannon and pitchforks against pistols. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read Few things in the strange world afloat would strike a landsman more, than the minute attention habitually paid to men who are hourly liable to the most perilous risks. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Desertions were not confined to the landsmen of our crews. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war If you ever went into shipping and insurance offices, David, you would hear even landsmen say so. Prisoners of Conscience "Well, tastes differ; of course, as a landsman you prefer wine; but you know the old song says— 'A sailor's sheet-anchor is grog.'" Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 I played the part of the judicious landsman, holding my peace till the last moment; and presently my mariners perceived it for themselves. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) It was unaccustomed work for a landsman, but Drew was supple and athletic and he mounted rapidly. Doubloons—and the Girl A new aristocracy had arisen from the decks who saw, in the pull of their sails, a weapon more powerful than shock ordnance, and resented the dictation of landsmen on their own sea-province. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war This was no joke, either, for a warrant officer in the Coast Guard, especially a boatswain, has a knowledge of his craft far beyond a landsman's imaginings. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers Partly because a landsman is always rather a comic figure to a sailor, partly because he knew how I had been brought up. Aliens Toward morning a stiff wind came upon them from the west, and Brian's men, being all landsmen, got no great joy out of that cruise. Nuala O'Malley I mean," explained the landsman, half ashamed of his enthusiasm, "that everything is so different—so old—so mysterious—so beautiful——. Doubloons—and the Girl Idlers and landsmen learned quickly and bitterly that their only claim to existence on a merchant's ship lay in a rapid acquisition of a skill in seamanship. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war It was a bad landin' that day, four or five times worse than this afternoon, an' I guess it looked dangerous enough to a landsman to be a bit scarin'. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers A seaport is not a very attractive place to a landsman. Aliens And don’t you run away with that notion that landsmen take about ships. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) “Her business surely demands it still,” said I. Only an arrant landsman could have reconciled the lumbering old craft with any idea of privateering; but this was only my theory, and I clung to it. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Severed, by press of our sea-work, from the facilities for study that now offered advancement to the landsman, we sought in alert and constant practice a substitute for technical instruction. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Then perhaps I can rake up a few loafers, landsmen, or anybody who can shovel coal or push on a capstan bar, and by offering them double wages get them to ship with us. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht And between the bed and the wardrobe, on four shelves, were ranged some two hundred volumes; even for a landsman a respectable library. Aliens He was clinging to a cleat in the rail with a landsman’s awkwardness and with the cunning object of proving to the ship that he wasn’t to be surprised off his feet another time. The Missourian Next to an honest seaman I love best An honest landsman. Collected Poems Volume One The exodus oversea of the nation's manhood brought the landsman and the seaman together as no casual meeting on the streets could have done. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war I wanted a steamer, and when I commanded a steamer for a little while I would stop short and be a landsman for the rest of my life. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht This, as there were many spectators by, gave great offence to the puritanical landsmen, and was considered as an act of indecency and a flagrant profanation of the Sabbath. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Sailors must name nothing of the land, nor landsmen anything of the sea: for all these were omens. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century That is to say, he too is an idealist, but he wants to catch different species of fish from those which drop into the basket of the landsman. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures The doings of the ships in the anchorage have interest for the landsmen. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war You couldn't get together a better set of landsmen, and I tell you what I'll do. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht These superstitions are numerous, and are tenaciously preserved, but yet it would not be fair to say that seamen are, as a class, more superstitious than landsmen of their own rank. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore While the landsmen were still cheering and waving a farewell, Bering and his followers watched the shores slip away, the waters widen, the mountains swim past and back. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters Oddments of deck machinery, inexplicable to a landsman, formed themselves vaguely in the mist. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 This is much like setting a company of untaught landsmen to navigate a ship. The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences I am not landsman enough to make my way through the country roads and timber.” The Bondwoman The landsman's eyesight is good; he prides himself a little upon it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The little vessel was so changed in appearance that a landsman would hardly have recognized her. Marcy The Blockade Runner So too, they have studded the ocean off Cape Horn so thickly with islands, that a landsman wonders how a ship of any size can manage to squeeze through into the Pacific. An Old Sailor's Yarns In another hour or two, she will be housed in a box-car; and we, her crew, having again donned the garb of landsmen, will be speeding toward our northern home, this pilgrimage but a memory. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo He holds all landsmen but ship-builders, owners, and riggers, in supreme contempt, and can hardly conceive of the existence of happiness, in places so far inland that the sea breeze does not blow. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 I did my best to descry it, ready to quarrel with my eyes for not doing so, and a little annoyed to find myself but a landsman after all. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 Aleck was a good sailor, and such a man was worth more in a gale at sea than a landsman who could call upon his bank account for a hundred thousand dollars. Marcy The Blockade Runner I did notice that some of the crew were prostrated, so that there was some excuse for a landsman not being proof against Neptune's dandling. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland They were essentially landsmen––a thing which Stubbs had not understood. The Web of the Golden Spider A landsman, for whom the trough of the wave had no terrors, and the leeward breakers, falling mountain high on Ushant, no message, was not a man to be despised. The Wild Geese If lubberly landsmen, to gratitude strangers, Still curse their unfortunate stars; Why, what would they say did they try but the dangers Encounter’d by true-hearted tars? Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life The Captain cast a pitying look on the ignorant landsman. A Tangled Tale To the landsmen who offended her, she made the river appear like a road, and led them to fall over the rocks to destruction. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden After all, it was probably only the constitutional jealousy that always exists between a seaman and a landsman. The Web of the Golden Spider It takes a lot to goad ’em to it, but once their hair’s on end, it’s time a sailor went to sea, and a landsman took to the bush. The Tale of Timber Town While up the shrouds the sailor goes, Or ventures on the yard, The landsman, who no better knows, Believes his lot is hard. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life The reason of the defeat lay in the superiority of the Carthaginian admiral and seamen, and the inexperience of Claudius and of his crews, consisting mainly of landsmen who knew nothing of the sea. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight The landsmen who had been employed went on shore, and Frank went forward to the forecastle, with the men, to dinner. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California It showed no fear, and the hook, still fastened in its beak, did not seem to annoy it; but no landsman could have been more awkward than was the albatross on the smooth rocking deck. Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly You are useless, O grave, O beautiful, the landsmen tell it—I have heard— you are useless. Sea Garden This purchase of wood--" "And with all our friends, landsmen and seamen, Clerbaut. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories The ouzel, too, is self-poised, indifferent to all the world but his brook, and 159 showing an appreciation for water greater, I think, than that of any other landsman. Wild Life on the Rockies You may not intend to go to sea again, but if you should, this will get you a better berth than if you had applied as a landsman. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California Take the sailor whose powers of discerning a ship on the horizon appear to the landsman so extraordinary, and set him to detect micro-organisms in the field of a microscope. Introduction to the Science of Sociology "They had," says Bancroft, "more than twice his weight of metal and twice as many fighting vessels, and skilled seamen and officers against landsmen." Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Suddenly the clang of a bell pierced this Babel of mingled noises, while a hoarse voice shouted, "All aboard that's going! landsmen ashore!" Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly It became difficult to stand—at least, for a landsman. Hurricane Island No landsman who has not tried the experiment can form the faintest notion of the luxury of the sailor's swinging bed, or of the extraordinary difficulty of getting into it for the first time. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Disaster always stripped Captain Jimmie of his nautical cloak and left him the true landsman. The End of the Rainbow As the sea-rovers of Normandy and Calais had formerly plundered Englishmen, English landsmen now plundered Normandy and Calais. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII They expressed great wonder that a mere landsman could make such an extended voyage in so small a boat, and many questions were asked and answered upon this subject. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier When all our troops were on board the "Megantic" we cast loose, pulled up the stream off Cape Diamond, and "dropped our hook," as a landsman in the ranks was heard to remark. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders It was a shock, coming from the short, square figure of such an obvious landsman. Tatterdemalion For all his sailing, the captain was a true landsman, and when under pressure his thin nautical veneer slipped off him, and his language was not of the sea. The End of the Rainbow Few meals present so much food for wonderment to the landsman as does a sailor's first dinner on board a newly-commissioned ship; all is hurry, bustle, and apparently hopeless confusion. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 And, being by profession a sailor, I may be able to do much that a landsman could not. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature That bugbear to all landsmen,—sea-sickness,—gave me but little annoyance, although some of the crew appeared to suffer greatly from its effects. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas The reserve ships had long been unfit to put to sea, the reserve crews had, for all practical purposes, become landsmen—landsmen among whom want of sea-going discipline had of late produced many mutinous outbreaks. The Message The sailors always took the lead, because they were at home; while the dispirited landsman felt himself a stranger in an enemy's land, even among his countrymen. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. The life of a sailor is usually one of almost wearisome monotony, despite what landsmen have to say as to its excitements. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure I recollect how painfully awkward and out-of-place it looked there, cramped between ruled black edges and smelling of landsman's ink—this thing that had to do essentially with air and vast coloured spaces. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories There was nothing of the lubber about poor Ben: always the first man at his duty, and ready to share his last copper with a fellow-mortal in distress, whether seaman or landsman. Select Temperance Tracts By this time most of the passengers were suffering the usual disabilities felt by landsmen for the first few days at sea. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 These unfortunate landsmen had never been used to "rough it" like sailors, but had lived the easy life of farmers and mechanics. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. There is a base imitation of “duff” known to landsmen as batter pudding; but the real plum duff of shining golden yellow, stuffed full of plums like Jack Horner’s pie, is all the sailor’s own. Killykinick The British ships on the other hand were manned largely by landsmen, often impressed from the jails. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) The lovely Claire de Kergouët had been worthy of a better fate than to be wife to this plain, cold-blooded landsman. Studies in love and in terror The boat stood to the northward, and the short steamer and the short chop sea would have made the passage very trying to landsmen. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark The captivity of the sailors was sufficiently distressing; but it was nothing to that of the wretched landsmen, who considered a ship at all times, a kind of dungeon. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. Is he a marinist; then, as a landsman has he made you feel like one, or has he painted for you water that can be walked on without faith? Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures By the light from the open door Jim could see that they were dressed like landsmen and that their clothes did not fit well. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good The country did not recognize this at once, and the newspapers being printed by landsmen, all of the immediate glory was bestowed on General Scott. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 There was no poison on board, to begin with; and why should he, a landsman, seek to poison the men who could take the ship and treasure to port? The Grain Ship The sailor, however, suffers less in appearance than we landsmen; for my short cruise in a privateer, does not entitle me to the name of a sailor. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. It was above all things my parents’ wish that I should live a landsman’s life. Marjorie The roaring, rain-shot blackness, roofed with murky clouds and floored with rushing surges, was not calculated to inspire confidence in a landsman. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good And at this a yell of approval went up all along the line, while the badgered sailors growled and tried to make sharp retorts to the stinging ridicule of the landsmen. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 It was generally composed of ordinary seamen and landsmen, constituting with waisters the largest part of the crew, on whom the principal drudgery of the ship devolved. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. To our landsmen’s eyes and judgment, she had appeared to be about four miles from us, but we found ourselves very much out in our calculation—it was more than double that distance. 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. I was but a pale-faced boy when I sailed, only a landsman, and no great figure as a landsman. Marjorie In the afternoon, we interred Matthew Sheridan, landsman, who had died of typhus fever. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy Of these, this one, written by a landsman, was for a long time popular among the tuneful souls of the forecastle, and was not altogether unknown in the wardroom. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 Applied by sailors to the mass of landsmen, especially those without employment. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. All who have performed a voyage, know the feeling of listlessness to which a landsman abandons himself during a calm. 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. He was half landsman, tilling his own croft, half seaman, going out with the boats to the herrings. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 With quick wit the skipper acted, for those who go upon waters are of a catholicity of creed and good-fellowship very different from ordinary landsmen. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan "It would be easier for a landsman like myself than for Bill who is city-bred and a seaman besides." Blackbeard: Buccaneer A word used rather contemptuously for alongshore; land usage.—'Longshore fellows, landsmen pretenders.—'Longshore owners, those merchants who become notorious for sending their ships to sea scantily provided with stores and provisions. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A landsman, seeing the crew, on an occasion of a fall, leap into the boats in their shirts, imagined that the ship was sinking. 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. A great proportion of the men of the humbler classes are half seamen, half landsmen, tilling their little crofts in the spring and autumn, and going out with the herring boats in summer. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 He laughed at the idea, as most seamen would, and the discussion ended by his promising to write a sea story which could be read by landsmen, while seamen should feel its truth. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 This mode of attack was worked out by a landsman, Clerk of Eldin, and though his Essay was not fully printed until 1782, parts of it were privately circulated in 1780. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration A fine paid by a youngster or landsman on first mounting the top. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. By the blaze of the musketry, we could see the French masses actually rolling back upon each other, staggering and shaken like landsmen at sea, or like any man in an earthquake. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 There is no landsman in the ship now exposed to its dangers. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Love, reputed eloquent, is oft the reverse; and though opening the lips of a landsman, will shut those of men who follow the sea. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea When the "Effingham" and other vessels were tied up in the Delaware, Captain Barry became a landsman and did shore duty, leading a company of volunteers in the Trenton and Princeton campaign. The Story of Commodore John Barry A landsman or boy in a coaster, undeserving the pay of a full-man. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The rest had lain for years in harbour, and many of them had crews chiefly made up of recently enrolled landsmen. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima I shall not harrow up the souls nor the stomachs of landsmen, as yet reveling in blissful ignorance of its tortures, with any description of sea-sickness. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Then let not landsmen scoff at such fancies, not a whit more absurd than their own credence in spiritualism. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Few landsmen can understand how quickly that operation can, by constant practice, be performed. The Three Midshipmen Passengers, ladies, landsmen, cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. For the latter men were provided by pressing landsmen into the service. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima To sweep gaily on before a fresh, fair breeze, is comparatively easy, but few landsmen can realize the patient assiduity and nautical skill required to extract propelling power from winds determined to be dead ahead. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. So is it considered by every one aboard the man-of-war, from the captain commanding to the latest joined “lubber of a landsman”—a thought that has been in their minds ever since the chase commenced. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea But even more remarkable are the sea terms universally current among the French Canadians, who come from the seafaring branch of a race of landsmen. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways An inexperienced youngster commencing his career; also applied to landsmen in general. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The fighting commander and the sailing-master were two different men, and the captain of a man-of-war was often a landsman. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima I suppose landsmen think it would be easier if they didn't have to bury their fathers and mothers and friends; but it wouldn't be. Man Overboard! The last, Harry Blew has discovered to be a landsman, with no sea-experience whatever; when found out, excusing himself on the plea that he wished to work his passage to Panama. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea A landsman could hardly believe what a marvellous adjustment of co-operating parts is required for a ship unless he actually watches its construction. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways It is the natural knot tied by women or landsmen, and derided by seamen because it cannot be untied when it is jammed. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Walker, scornful of a landsman, and annoyed at being disturbed, answered impatiently and would not stir. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America The deck lay over at a dreadful slant to a landsman's eye; indeed, notwithstanding holding on to everything I could catch, I fell four times during the morning. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Still, there is light enough reflected from the luminous surface of the sea to show that neither is in sailor garb, but the habiliments of landsmen—this the national costume of Spanish California. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Their landsmen never 'clear the decks for action,' are never 'brought up with a round turn,' or even 'taken aback,' as if by the wind on the wrong side. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways A galley-term for all those landsmen who enter the naval service from farming counties. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. James Fenimore Cooper, who had been in the navy, criticised Scott's "Pirate" as the work of a landsman. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism It was to be a case of tacking down Channel,—a slow and, for landsmen, a very trying process. A Boy's Voyage Round the World “A whale, your grandmother, Jonathan!” repeated Davy Armstrong in a bantering tone, with all—as his companion thought he could detect—the conscious superiority of a sucking sailor over a raw landsman, in his voice. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek The kind of vessel they used in the tenth century is the craft of most peculiar interest to Canadian history, though it has never been noticed there except by the merest landsman's reference. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways There followed him to the street, as if in derision, the refrain of that landsman's hymn: "Leave the poor old stranded wreck, and pull for the shore!" Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories A landsman said, "I twig the chap—he's been upon the Mill— And 'cause he gammons so the flats, ve calls him Veeping Bill!" The Book of Humorous Verse The aid of a landsman would be of little service in operations like these. Ran Away to Sea It was a lovely evening, and as his crew lay grouped about him, he favoured them with the following melody: O landsmen are folly! Captain Boldheart & the Latin-Grammar Master A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Lieut-Col. Robin Redforth, aged 9 At last she's back in Halifax, after a series of adventures that would set an ordinary landsman up for life. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways “It should teach us sailors to be ready to go up to God at a moment’s call; ay, and landsmen too, for who knows who may next be called.” Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading I ought to know better how to manage a raft than those landsmen,” and he cast a glance at me; “and I promise to take good care of you and your brothers.” In the Wilds of Africa The ability and despatch with which sailors can construct a raft, would be almost incredible to a landsman who had never seen the thing done. Ran Away to Sea Many ships, indeed, went to sea imperfectly manned; the proper number of the crews being often made up of men sent from the jails, and landsmen carried off by the press-gangs. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 But I suppose you seamen are learned in signs which we landsmen do not understand.” Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions We will enter you as a landsman; but you will soon make an able seaman.” John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea “The landsmen, as you say, will want my help, and I must go aboard the other.” In the Wilds of Africa It must here be observed that the “masts” of a ship, as understood by landsmen, are each divided into a number of pieces in the reckoning of a sailor. Ran Away to Sea Every seaman knows how impossible it is for an ordinary landsman to draw anything like a faithful representation of a ship, however picturesque a production the thing might appear to him. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 “I do not see an opening in these tremendous breakers, and if we can’t get through them, even a landsman could tell that we shall be dashed to pieces.” Chasing the Sun There’s no one aboard but the captain, and four or five men and boys, all told: the landsmen are all ashore, scattered over the island. The Island Home I did not intrude it unnecessarily; I had a notion that I was regarded with a somewhat jealous eye by those who considered me a mere landsman. In the Wilds of Africa So ends the brief but thrilling discoveries of the Northmen, who knew not fear, and we turn again to landsmen and the east. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The English style of naming the decks of a ship differs from that of other nations, and though perfectly understood by her crew, is calculated to puzzle a landsman. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 This statement being published in the Athen�um, a cluster of correspondents averred that the belief is common among seamen, in all parts of the world, and among landsmen too. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I This fish story has several rather astonishing features—at least to an inexperienced landsman. The Island Home His dress was more that of a landsman than of a sailor, though it partook of both. The Rival Crusoes Another night’s foray on shore considerably increased our numbers; besides which several volunteers, mostly landsmen, were obtained, and the cutter then sailed to discharge her passengers into the ships most requiring men. Old Jack The two foremost belonged to Don Rafael and his crew, while the others were filled with strangers whose appearance was that of landsmen rather than mariners. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Books on Arctic and Antarctic exploration, as well as whaling voyages, comprise much reading that is as interesting to the landsman as to the sailor. The Book-Hunter at Home Dismounting from shipboard, we become landsmen for the remainder of our journey, and wave adieu to the steamboat which has brought us as we linger a moment on the mole of Bona. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 In one respect the "Congress" was the weaker; for her crew was composed largely of landsmen, and her marines were a company of militia, most of whom were sadly afflicted with seasickness. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 Having taken possession of everything they wanted, they then made every landsman walk the plank, as they did likewise every seaman who would not join them. Old Jack Because the officers and seamen on board ships," replied the surgeon, "don't like to be troubled with questions from landsmen while they are engaged in their duties. Rollo on the Atlantic We won't go aloft till you have got your togs; a fellow going aloft in landsmen's clothes always looks rather a duffer. At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt The place was all silent but for the seaman's snores as he slept the sleep of a landsman upon his coarse pallet. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Generally, the inhabitants and landsmen sided with the victims; and a sailor running through the streets of the town would be given every assistance by people, who filled with obstacles the path of his pursuers. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 The “small” gradually tapers till it contracts very much; and at the end the flukes, or what landsmen would call the tail, is joined on. Old Jack Even the sensible questions of landsmen appear very foolish to seamen; and then, besides, they commonly ask a great many that are absolutely very foolish. Rollo on the Atlantic An asylum for landsmen who would rather die of drink than be seasick. A Book of Burlesques And as for women, I've had my bellyful of women after her I was kind to, and was true to for one and twenty years, going off with some sweating landsman to a dingy town.... The Wind Bloweth Even to a landsman like myself, it was apparent that the Italian conception of war afloat in the year of grace 1915 was open to criticism. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 Else you are like a landsman at sea: don't know the ropes, the very things everlastingly pulled before your eyes. The Confidence-Man There is no end to the foolishness of the questions which landsmen ask when they are at sea. Rollo on the Atlantic "No, you may get a landsman to admire your bold cliffs, but you won't get a sailor to agree with him." Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) No description can adequately convey to landsmen the work to be done and the conditions under which it was performed. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories Yet every rope, in what seems to a landsman’s eye a bewildering mass of confusion, has its distinctive name and specific purpose. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships You know that the heads of you landsmen are not so steady as those of seamen.” The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers All the new landsmen like you suffer horribly from sea-sickness when they first come off.” The Lighthouse It would only perplex a landsman to be told in detail the proceedings of the “Nancy” and her crew after this point. The Lifeboat A tall stout man, in plain costume, which was neither quite that of a seaman nor a landsman, stood with his arms crossed on his broad chest near the man at the wheel. Jarwin and Cuffy And here again, to a landsman like Stanley, there was much to interest and surprise. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands “I know that the heads of landsmen are not stuffed with such conceit as the heads of you sailors,” retorted Brown, as he went off to gather eggs. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers “Captain,” said Ned, “it does not become a landsman to suggest, perhaps, but I can’t help reminding you, that leaks of this kind have been stopped by putting a sail below the ship’s bottom.” The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West “He neither looks like a landsman nor a seaman, but a sort of mixture of both.” The Lifeboat We now tried to put the ship’s head to the wind and “lay to,” by which landsmen will understand that we tried to face the storm, and remain stationary. Fighting the Whales Of course we refer to the landsmen only. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue Even landsmen can perceive that it must have required much faith to trust a lifeboat in the circumstances. Battles with the Sea Tying a mule-pack on the back of a bouncing wild horse may suggest an equivalent difficulty to a landsman. The Young Trawler And now we have fairly got into blue water—the sailor’s delight, the landsman’s dread— “The sea! the sea! the open sea; The blue, the fresh, the ever free.” The World of Ice Now not one landsman in a hundred seizes a rope's end. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta We have said that the gale had moderated, and the sun had come out, so that the pier was crowded, not only with fisher-folk, but with visitors to the port, and other landsmen. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue In November a draft of five hundred were sent from the seaboard, which, though containing a proportion of men-of-war's men, had a yet larger number of coasting and merchant seamen, and of landsmen. The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. A short interval had elapsed, after it was supposed that everybody had come from below, when a tall, thin personage, in the dress of a landsman, crawled up the hatchway. The King's Own Bill Sykes was a landsman, and had soon shown that he was totally unfit for a sailor. Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor While talking of cetaceous animals, to which order the porpoise belongs, I must remark on a very common error held by seaman as well as landsmen, that whales spout out water. My First Voyage to Southern Seas I don’t know what landsmen might have done, but we, not to be deterred by difficulties or the fear of breaking our necks, commenced the ascent. Twice Lost “The play is only got up for the amusement of landsmen, and to show them how we sailors fight for them.” True Blue Not one on ’em is worth that!” and he snapped his fingers to show his contempt for landsmen of every degree. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman One, as his dress and appearance showed, was a seafaring man; the other wore long toggery, as sailors call the costume of landsmen. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler “It’s a sort of night you landsmen don’t often meet with, I suspect.” My First Voyage to Southern Seas In what is called the waist, or the centre of the ship, the landsmen and least skilful of the crew are placed. Peter the Whaler “A full-rigged ship, sir,” was his unhesitating reply, although even from where he stood her topgallant-sails alone could be seen, and to a landsman’s eye nothing distinguishable would have been visible. True Blue He and the other landsmen were set to perform such work as they were capable of, of course being compelled to pull and haul when sail was made or shortened. Paddy Finn Yet so modest and gentle was he on shore that, in spite of his broad shoulders and sun-burnt brow, landsmen were apt to declare that “butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth.” The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book If not, seamen, and often landsmen, if they were stout fellows, were bound hand and foot and carried off to the boats. Hurricane Hurry She was also going but slowly through the water, though, from the way she was tumbling about, a landsman might have supposed she was moving at a great rate. Peter the Whaler We got out the oars, and while the landsmen bailed we pulled away till the stout ash-sticks almost broke. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors “And what are you going to do with me, a landsman who never was to sea in his life?” exclaimed Hoolan. Paddy Finn Mr Martin was sent for, and his shrill whistle soon brought the whole of the crew tumbling up from below, the landsmen and idlers only remaining to stow away the mess things. Ben Hadden or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It Some two or three of them said they were landsmen, and one hailed as a Quaker and a non-combatant, but I did not like the looks of any of them. Hurricane Hurry On such occasions, when all the boats are away, the ship is frequently left with only the master, one or two seamen, and the rest landsmen on board. Peter the Whaler Four of their number, after some consideration, volunteered, rather than remain prisoners, to lend a hand in working the ship; but as they were landsmen, they were of no use aloft. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign I have heard tell, Maisther Terence, that the say runs mountains high, for all the world like the hills of Connemara, but I’m after thinking that these are all landsmen’s notions. Paddy Finn He was rated as a landsman, and would have been forward at the time. The Three Lieutenants The vessel rode head to wind with her stern to the shore, not perceived by any but the seamen, so hardly could a landsman’s eye pierce the thick gloom around. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham As a landsman my assistance was not of much value, though I stood by clinging to the bulwarks, to lend a hand in case I should be required. James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat But few days had passed after he had commenced his homeward passage, with his crew of six landsmen, than it came on to blow so hard that he had to close reef the topsails. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign Then he wasn’t much account being a landsman, I s’pose, and he didn’t understand what he was about. Middy and Ensign We followed, for there was the prospect of seeing topsails reefed,—the most glorious event of a landsman's sea-experiences. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Objects scarcely visible to landsmen’s eyes were seen by her pilot, and thus we were able to avoid any risk of striking. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham We now tried to put the ship's head to the wind and "lay to", by which landsmen will understand that we tried to face the storm, and remain stationary. Fighting the Whales Don't I leave Derry Duck aboard ship, and put on my landsman's clothes, and ride up to the door where she is, with my pocket full of money. The Boy Patriot Most seamen, especially those of foreign nationality, have seemingly a horror of water for ablutionary purposes, in contradistinction to landsmen. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes Men are born landsmen, and are born on land, but belong to the Ocean's family. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Who are you? a landsman, to give orders to a trained seaman! The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land If he is to be captain you will have no need of me; but if I am to be captain I will not allow anyone—and least of all a landsman—to interfere with me.” Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship For all that, I would fain have taken to the sea with him; for every day I longed more for the open life of a sailor, and chafed at the shackles of my landsman’s fate. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 What bad sight you landsmen have, to be sure! Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes Not even I, landsman as I was, could mistake what I saw. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess How sly your were all to keep it so carefully concealed that he was in the navy; and I taking him all the time for a lubberly landsman! The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land They were no longer sailors but landsmen, depending, not upon their fleet but upon their infantry. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece He was—let this excuse be made for him—a landsman, comparatively new to the Islands. Major Vigoureux We shall be tossing about presently in a manner unpleasant to landsmen; and when you are safely housed, I will come and beguile a little time by relating a true story of a Corsican Vendetta.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 Whatever landsmen may think about shanty words—with their cheerful inconsequence, or light-hearted coarseness—there can be no two opinions about the tunes, which, as folk-music, are a national asset. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties Of course, as you say, a landsman has no knowledge of these things and has no right to speak.” The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land Historians have looked at the Revolution as a plain landsman looks at the sea. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre You know that landsmen always do get things mixed. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem It is not easy to make a landsman understand the confidence which a sailor feels in a rope. The Two Admirals IT may reasonably be asked by what authority a mere landsman publishes a book on a nautical subject. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties Excuse me, Mr Meldrum, I know my business; and, I presume, you’ll allow a sailor to be better acquainted with his duties than any landsman can possibly be.” The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land To the landsman the ocean seems one huge immeasurable flood, obeying a simple law of ebb and flow, and offering to the navigator a single uniform force. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre Of course I can—nothing pleases Tolley more than to have people admire his vessel—even though a landsman's admiration, you know, really cannot seem of much account to a sailor. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem Well, we must all go as we're called, sailors or landsmen, and as I was saying, if I was never to sail a ship, I would have liked to drive a coach. The Peace Egg and Other tales To the landsman of those days—before folk-song hunting had begun—the haunting beauty of the tunes would appear to have made no appeal. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties I recollect how painfully awkward and out-of-place it looked there, cramped between ruled black edges and smelling of landsman’s ink—this thing that had to do essentially with air and vast colored spaces. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story It seemed desirable for us landsmen to have our food as nearly like that we had been in the habit of having as possible. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' Our forefathers were not mere landsmen like the Jews, but the finest seamen the world has ever seen. True Words for Brave Men With a seaman's laugh at a landsman's fears, the Admiral donned dressing gown and slippers and shuffled up to the decks. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Kipling and other landsmen have given additional currency to the spelling. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties It would have felled an ordinary landsman, but he caught it, placed it238 beside him and then ordered her to jump, just as she stood, without lowering herself. The Beach of Dreams Here we came to, to wait for a wind, more passengers, and that important personage, whom man-of-war's men term the master, and landsmen the captain. Recollections of Europe However convenient trousers may be to the sailor who has to cling to slippery shrouds, for the landsman nothing can be more inconvenient. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 But this book is about seamen and the sea, and how they have changed the fate of landsmen and the land. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas The modest seaman always bowed before the landsman's presumed superiority in 'book-larnin'.' The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties As day after day slipped past with no sight but the heaving sea, the Russian landsmen became restive. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward It was soon obscured, and most of the landsmen were incredulous about its having been seen at all. Recollections of Europe The seaman was tall, with a heavier development of shoulder and upper arms than the landsmen. Key Out of Time Luckily for England, Philip was a landsman, no soldier, and very slow. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas The truth is that, however plausible the French derivation theory may sound, it is after all pure speculation—and a landsman's speculation at that—unsupported by a shred of concrete evidence. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties The commander—officer or exile—then enlisted sailors among landsmen. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward The French make excellent seamen when properly trained; but I think, on the whole, they are more thoroughly landsmen than any people of my acquaintance, who possess a coast. Recollections of Europe A landsman might think that medley reigned supreme; but it was not so. The Captain of the Kansas The Spaniards were one-quarter seamen and three-quarters landsmen. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas Sailor shanties and landsmen's nautical effusions were jumbled together higgledy-piggledy, along with 'Full Fathom Five' and the 'Eton Boating Song.' The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties The next ship he met with was the sloop of that amateur pirate and landsman, Major Stede Bonnet. The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers The boat was soon under way, and gradually our cargo of mental apprehensions settled into the usual dolorous physical suffering of landsmen in rough water. Recollections of Europe To one like him whose early life had been spent on top-gallant yards and in becketing royals, it was perfectly clear that "The Pirate" was the work of a landsman and not of a sailor. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters The English were three-quarters seamen and one-quarter landsmen; and most of these landsmen were like the Marines of the present day, "soldier and sailor too." Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas These are the stock-in-trade of the landsman; they were too real for the sailor to sing about. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties I would rather," he said, "have landsmen, providing they are strong and stout hearted, than sailors, however skillful, who are given to grumbling and disaffection. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico But once the Admiral said his battleships could not fight through without help, there was no foothold left for the views of a landsman. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Minute detail, moreover, was necessary to render it intelligible to seamen, and to landsmen it would be both unintelligible and uninteresting on account of the technicalities which must inevitably be found in minute detail. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters The Sea-Dogs themselves never bothered their heads about what they thought such a very common thing; and whatever other landsmen wrote was always wrong. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas His explanation made it clear why every sailor called it either 'hog-eye' or 'hog's-eye,' and why only landsmen editors ever get the word wrong. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties It was quite deliberately done, as even a landsman could see; and it lost us a couple of hundred yards off the captain's boat, sailing to starboard of us. Foe-Farrell The total number of petty officers, &c., seamen, ordinary seamen, and musicians, deducted from the whole number of C, will give the number of landsmen and boys. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. Enough of technicality was brought in to satisfy the professional seaman, but not so much as to distract the attention of the landsman from the main movement of the story. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters As for cheats: Sea-Dogs were not perfect themselves, nor were all landsmen quite so bad as those in the old sailors' song: For Sailours they bee honest men, And they do take great pains. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas This is the shanty which is perhaps the best known among landsmen. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties They understood the meaning of "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," if the landsmen did not. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 But they all take their whiskey, these boatmen, and so does almost every landsman, for that matter—and Pierce is no worse than the rest. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Rope climbing is a thing that only comes with practice; and as to nervousness, most landsmen are afraid to trust themselves to a rope at all. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib But they were those of a landsman who failed to reckon with all the troubles of bringing the different squadrons of the French and Spanish fleets together in spite of the British blockade. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas It was not enough for the young sailor to outrun the landsman; he would do more. The Story of Cooperstown It was substantially fitted up, with little superfluous ornamentation; but it was a complete parlor, as a landsman would regard it. On The Blockade What landsman is he that was fostered and reared of thine hand1180 Who may vaunt him as we may in death though he die for the land? Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) We sailors are a superstitious people, and believe in things that landsmen laugh at. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib But most people, then as now, knew nothing about navies; and so the Armada went on collecting ships and men together, heartening the landsmen of Spain, and disheartening far too many landsmen in England. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas "Too many landsmen in that boat!" said the old captain, who had been carefully watching every movement through his glass; now hoping, now fearing. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family Pity the tuneful muses’ hapless train, Weak, timid landsmen on life’s stormy main! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The sea ran tremendously high, and the sky was dark and dreary; insomuch that by a landsman the gale might safely be accounted a storm. The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 Dalgard heard it first, his landsman's ears serving him where the complicated sense which gave the sea people warning did not operate. Star Born The breathing of them brought the past before us; the past which was so recent, yet so far away; the past which is so dear to a sailor and so depressing to a landsman. Great Sea Stories He also affected great contempt for the landsman who had lived like a gentleman, and never killed a whale in his life. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family But more.—“There go the ships;” things specially wonderful and significant to him, the landsman of the Judæan hills, as they were afterward to Muhammed, the landsman of the Arabian deserts. Westminster Sermons with a Preface And, pray, what joy can the landsman feel Like the rise and fall of a sliding keel? The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar And his thought came back to reassure the more clumsy landsman. Star Born "I think I understand the matter perfectly, colonel," replied Lonley, who did not seem to take kindly to any advice from a landsman. Within The Enemy's Lines He calculated, and, as was proved afterwards, calculated rightly, that the galleons would be half manned, or not manned at all, and crowded with landsmen bringing on board the stores. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 The first two or three days of a voyage are generally nearly a blank to landsmen. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel I always found these excellent workers, and specially handy and clever in many ways, where a mere landsman would be at fault. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 The slate-colored S. P. 888 looked to be no friend to a landsman, especially with the sea as it was just then. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats “Hey, you landsmen, do you know a buoy from an umbrella?” The Submarine Boys and the Middies Unwelcome news to a harassed landsman thrust into the position of an admiral and eager to be rid of his responsibilities. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 After all, it was a good music to sleep to, and, for all my scorn of sleeping landsmen, an irresistible drowsiness stretched me out on the roof of the little cabin, wonderfully rocked into forgetfulness. Pieces of Eight They were lurching in twos and threes through the doors, after the manner of merchant Jacks who cannot go out of a door fairly, like mere landsmen. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle For with the upstart a heaving nausea came to supplement the headache, and for a long time I lay bat-blind and sick as any landsman in his first gale at sea. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady They were clearly sailors, and not landsmen—passengers or anything else. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 This was genuine navigation, this steering a large vessel with your back; any mere landsman, he now saw, could coil up ropes like Coristine. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life At sea the sight as daylight grew stronger was enough to make the stoutest heart, ignorant landsman's or practised seaman's, quail. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood Those squareheads had proof of the mate's temper in the person of their young landsman, lying broken in his bunk. The Blood Ship You come on shipboard with a landsman's list Of things he calls convenient: so they are! Men and Women The rule in these cases was to fine the culprit £100 if he was a landsman; but if he was a sailor he was impressed into the Navy for a period of five years. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 The landsmen went and hid themselves under a gateway, and the yelling crew disappeared in the direction of the abbey. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 However this may be, there cannot be the smallest doubt that Dibdin's songs exercised a very powerful effect on landsmen, and contributed greatly to foster national pride in the navy and popular sympathy with sailors. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 The sight of their young landsman in agony stirred the berserk in the squareheads of the crew. The Blood Ship The majority had been newly enlisted and contained many foreigners, landsmen, and objectionable sailors. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders Dear landsmen! would you like to know how idly and jovially a foremast Jack gets through his twenty-four hours at sea? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 "Hey, you landsmen, do you know a buoy from an umbrella!" The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis Stay you two in the background," he said to Ben Greenway and Dickory; "you are both landsmen, and you don't count in a ceremony such as this is going to be. Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter No man being in health shall refuse to watch his turn as he shall be directed, the sailors by the master and boatswain, the landsmen by their captain, lieutenant, or other officers. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. Not many landsmen, I imagine, have seen this done in absolutely mid-ocean, and not many have been on a ship so lashed alongside another. Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' He still scorned to explain to the meddlesome landsman. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul The main trouble is with the ship, and that's what no landsman can ever understand. Poison Island The technique of submarine-chasing and dodging would be dry reading to a landsman. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. Boteler's work is cast in the form of a conversation between a landsman admiral and an experienced sea captain, who is supposed to be instructing him. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. Digby the landsman maintained discipline, reconciled quarrels, doctored his men, ducked them for disorderliness, and directed the naval and military operations like any old veteran. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened The Cap'n reflected that it was about as much wit as landsmen would possess. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul "But, indeed, too, I might have been prepared for it when you started by taking a line that beats all my experience of landsmen; or perhaps in this case I ought to say landsladies." Poison Island The great seas that came hurling into the little fishing-harbour were sufficient proof of that, even to the most inexperienced landsman. The Odds And Other Stories Its enchanting landscape has allured many a landsman to his ruin, and its beacon, seen through the haze of a south-east gale, has guided many a watchful mariner to shipwreck and death. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Men were running and shouting, lights flashing, landsmen, startled by the noise, hurrying to the river-bank. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Now that his mariner's nose was turned toward the sea once again after his two years of landsman's hebetude, all his seaman's instinct, all his seaman's caution, revived. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul The distance from the main land to the island is computed to be about three leagues, hence the pull at the oars, for landsmen unaccustomed to such kind of work, was no small task. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself But, you take it as comin' from me, There's a fear and a hate in our love that a landsman can't understand. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke The fishers were sitting together talking over the bad weather, but, indeed, without that bitterness that I have heard from landsmen when it would be the same trouble with them. Winter Evening Tales Reginald became conscious of those disquieting symptoms common to landsmen in such case. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 It was naught to us, but it made the landsman start and look upward as if expecting to see somewhat carried away, while I laughed at him. A Sea Queen's Sailing This gentleman, since the time he first turned landsman up to the present date, has been adding fresh laurels to his fame. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself To a landsman, his control of the various ships and his forethought in obtaining supplies seemed little short of marvellous. Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force Army, and on the 3d day of February, 1865, he enlisted as landsman in the United States Navy, and served in that branch of the service for three years. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term So that to have beheld this undemonstrative invalid gliding about, apathetic and mute, no landsman could have dreamed that in him was lodged a dictatorship beyond which, while at sea, there was no earthly appeal. The Piazza Tales Leave to the lubber landsmen The rail-car and the steed; The stars of heaven shall guide us The breath of heaven shall speed. New National Fourth Reader Now most of these were as good fellows as you could wish for; but they were landsmen, such as never go down to the sea in ships. With Botha in the Field For a landsman to gain a ladder on a ship's side under these conditions is not a thing of undiluted joy. Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force Eight o'clock, I thought, unconsciously translating nautical horology into the dull measurements of landsmen. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned On land, he was likely to imitate landsmen in manners and politeness; but on board he tipped his hat to nobody; leastwise, to nobody but Miss Laura, bless her heart! A Splendid Hazard Leave the coward landsman clinging To the dull earth like a weed— The stars of heaven shall guide us, The breath of heaven shall speed! New National Fourth Reader Still, it seems to me as a landsman, and one who has crossed the ocean a great many times, that the safety of the Lusitania lay in speed. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 I mention these incidents in my early experience as a sort of apology for a landsman's presumption, in venturing to write this Preface to a series of nautical details. Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 No landsman can ever imitate the sailor when the power of song or composition is on him. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon After all, too, women in a boat were always a nuisance at the best, and he liked the Count's face, and decided that he was not of the type of landsmen who are frightened. The Children of the King But the landsman's belief in mystic tokens and flighty safeguards is faint indeed compared with that which permeates and saturates the mind of the typical sailor. Windjammers and Sea Tramps The ill-assorted band of landsmen and sailors, surrounded by that influence of the wilderness which wakens the dormant savage in the breasts of men, soon fell into quarrels. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 It had all been interesting to the landsman in view of the present storm, but at last he could no longer endure the exposure of the shelterless bridge. The Man in the Twilight Plymouth, at that moment lying idle in a British port, that the landsman would commonly associate with sailing orders to a great destroyer. The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy But there are two kinds of landsmen, those who are afraid, and those who are not, as Ruggiero well knows. The Children of the King Ellan was then a primitive place, and its inhabitants, half landsmen, half seamen, were a simple pious race living in a sweet poverty which rarely descended into want. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Or are they essentially landsmen,—landsmen just as much on the deck of a frigate as when marshalled on a battle-field? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 "If the truth were known, maybe your landsman on an average don't do as he chooses any more than we mariners." Hocken and Hunken Half an hour later the two landsmen were metamorphosed into very respectable whalers, and, with the two captains, were running the whale-boat down the sands of Bic into the dark waters of the St. Lawrence. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 San Miniato was a thorough landsman and never understood why the wind always seemed to change, or die away, or do something unexpected so soon as he began to steer the boat. The Children of the King Matcham went to the seaport by the coach, and instantly entered as an able-bodied landsman or marine, I know not which. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft |
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