When a Secretary of the Navy ventures to innovate upon its established customs, you hear some of the Navy officers say, "What does this landsman know about our affairs?
Have you not, many of you, a thousand times violated this law, and addressed to men, whose tongues were tied by this very Article, language which no landsman would ever hearken to without flying at the throat of his insulter?
Yet the popular conceit concerning a sailor is derived from his behaviour ashore; whereas, ashore he is no longer a sailor, but a landsman for the time.
Any American landsman may hope to become President of the Union--commodore of our squadron of states.
Dark and boisterous nights which frighten the distressedlandsman have no terrors for the sailor.
He could thus hide himself away in places and receptacles from which the average landsman would have turned in fear or disgust.
Most of the contributors would be surprised to know that the cost of board and lodging at the "home" is precisely the same as it is outside, and much higher than a landsman of the same grade can live for in better style.
It may seem a small point, but it is really not so unimportant as a landsman might imagine.
It is not easy to make a landsman understand the confidence which a sailor feels in a rope.
A little practice and observation will accustom the landsman to "ship's time," and afford him a slight distraction when inclined to think the voyage a monotonous one.
The landsman who has never been on a sea-voyage looks with more or less hesitation at the prospect of making one.
The first feeling that a landsman objects to at sea is that of the heaving motion of the ship; to your true sailor the cessation of that motion, or its absence under circumstances, is disagreeable in the extreme.
Of course, as you say, a landsman has no knowledge of these things and has no right to speak.
The more I thought of this, the more I was astonished, for the young landsman was not forced to come out in the ship, and had almost been left, as it was.
This may strike the landsman as unnecessary and somewhat brutal; but, before he passes judgment, he should try to take care of a lot of men who are, for a part, a little lower than beasts.
Among the last to go was the old landsmanwhom Trunnell had given a chance to earn his clothes by bug-hunting.
The landsman began to be a little seasick, which somehow added to his moral discomfort.
The landsman was clumsy and nervous, missed his footing, and fell.
The landsman struggled to recall his limited stock of nautical phrases.
He talked about her safe points to the landsman (who responded with the satisfaction of ignorance), but the final end of the Dream's being was speed, unqualified by inferior considerations.
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.
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.
In merchant-ships, a boy means a green-hand, a landsman on his first voyage.
There is an old custom, still in vogue among some merchant sailors, of tying fast in the rigging any lubberly landsman of a passenger who may be detected taking excursions aloft, however moderate the flight of the awkward fowl.
To give a landsman some notion of what is done on board ship, it may be truly said that all the first part of a passage is spent in getting a ship ready for sea, and the last part in getting her ready for port.
But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I thought myself to be looking as salt as Neptune himself, I was, no doubt, known for a landsman by every one on board as soon as I hove in sight.
There is not so helpless and pitiable an object in the world as a landsman beginning a sailor's life.
The storm at sea is painted as a landsman would do it; but a landsman who had seen, from a safe shore, what he so vividly describes.
Their conduct, in this respect, so opposed to their generous-hearted behaviour ashore, painfully affects the landsman on his first intercourse with them as a sailor.
Very well, sir," the old man cried, and then he let fly a lot of orders to us of the crew which would have shamed a landsman to utter, for of a verity no sailor could have understood them.
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.
The aid of a landsman would be of little service in operations like these.
The ability and despatch with which sailors can construct a raft, would be almost incredible to a landsmanwho had never seen the thing done.
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 officers were most friendly and did everything possible to make things comfortable for a landsman in their limited quarters.
To a landsman it was incomprehensible how it was possible for us to pursue our zigzag course in the inky blackness and avoid collisions, particularly when it was borne in mind that our ship was English and our convoyers were Japanese.
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.
You need a sailor's head to reach it and a sailor's heart to remain there, for if there is any sea on at all, the swinging and swaying about is enough to turn any landsman sick and giddy.
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.
If there is one thing in the world that delights the secret heart of the average landsman more than the sad spectacle of a parson in the divorce court, it is the sight of a sea-sick sailor.
Since, however, the average landsman reads his paper far oftener than he sails the stormy seas, the former delectation is probably granted him rather more frequently than the latter.
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.
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.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
