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Example sentences for "good sailor"

  • He knew a very capital fellow, and a good sailor, James Wall by name.

  • Richard Shandon was a good sailor; for a long time he had commanded whalers in the Arctic seas, with a well-deserved reputation throughout all Lancaster.

  • I don't like him either, but Mr. Jenks calls him a good sailor.

  • The voyage was stormy, and not being a good sailor, he arrived in New York a wreck.

  • He preferred to snatch picnic meals in the hot smoke-room or to munch a sandwich on the wind-swept deck, having this one advantage of the enemy: he was a good sailor.

  • He possessed other valuable traits of character; was a good sailor and a skilful navigator, but he could not resist the fascinations of the intoxicating cup.

  • He made a good sailor; and while I knew him in St. Pierre, and during the subsequent years of his life, his conduct was in every way correct.

  • On shipboard he was a good sailor and a skilful navigator.

  • A man, sir, who can at all times make it eight bells, must needs be a good sailor," Dogvane said.

  • But it is already something--as they say in France-- to be a good sailor.

  • It was so easy to be a good sailor that he had not even the satisfaction of having to make an effort.

  • Agatha had proved herself to be a good sailor.

  • Was I a good horseman, a good sailor, a good talker, a good reader?

  • He was of the bulldog breed, a good sailor, a good officer, and loyal to the heart’s core.

  • He soon disappeared, but he was talented, a good sailor, a good musician and a man who was the enemy of no one but himself.

  • Garrett, a man as strong as Hercules and as obstinate as a mule, a good sailor, and a good friend where he took a fancy.

  • He could be accused of imprudence, want of reflection, folly, blindness, but he was a good sailor, and one of the best!

  • The storm spent itself out about nine o'clock in the evening; the Forward, like a good sailor, maintained her route north-west.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good appearance; good blood; good courage; good customer; good farmer; good farming; good flavor; good home; good impression; good influence; good investment; good knights; good lass; good learning; good mind; good mornin; good neighbour; good preservation; good rest; good seed; good sermon; good soldier; good start; good sweet; good table; physical necessity