A third old sea-song gives voice to the universal complaint that landsmen cheat sailors who come home flush of gold.
Nearly all historians are both landsmen and civilians whose sins of omission and commission are generally at their worst in naval and nautical affairs.
With her lavish decorations, her towering superstructures fore and aft, and her general aping of a floating castle, she was the wonder of all the landsmenin her own age, as she has been the delight of picturesque historians ever since.
Elizabethan landsmen may have been quite as prone to mistake comfort for civilization as most of the world is said to be now.
The great mass of ordinary landsmen might wonder why the 'sea-affair' was a thing they could not understand.
We had a sharp look-out kept ahead so that we might avoid running down any boat, or running into any vessel; while the three landsmen agreed to keep watch with Porpoise and me, to add to the number of hands on deck.
We know what risks all landsmen run, From noblemen to tailors: Then, Bill, let us thank Providence That you and I are sailors.
You landsmen be so fed with liberty you don't know your privileges.
The inhabitants were now classed into landsmen and seamen, or mariners, and they profited respectively by the advantages of their situation.
From the motion being suddenly checked or deadened, and from the flowing in of the water above, every individual on board thought that the ship was foundering--at least all the landsmen were fully impressed with that idea.
All the new landsmen like you suffer horribly from sea-sickness when they first come off.
If the hard rocks of our island could tell the tale of their experience, and if we landsmen could properly appreciate it, we should understand more clearly why it is that sailors love blue (in other words, deep) water during stormy weather.
Landsmen generally think that most watches aboard a wind-jammer are passed in yarns and smoking.
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.
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.
Moreover, he knew, of course, that a merchant captain is by no means the almighty little tin god that mostlandsmen think him, even while at sea, and that in the eyes of owners he is of fairly small account.
Then the king praised these words of the ruru-deer, and with his townsmen and landsmen became intent on acting up to the Law of Righteousness.
It was soon obscured, and most of the landsmen were incredulous about its having been seen at all.
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.
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.
Landsmen can call in help when their house needs repairing, but sailors must be able to keep every part of their house in perfect order; and there is always something to be done.
Seamen scarcely ever think of describing their life to people on shore, and the majority of landsmen regard a sea-voyage as a dull affair, to be begun with regret and ended with joy.
The fishermen on the wild North Sea are cared for, and merry scenes are to be witnessed even when landsmen might shudder in terror.
He was a true specimen of the British sailor, deeply respected by all who knew him, as well by landsmen as in naval circles.
These are sung by landsmen yachting in still waters and in sight of green fields, by romantic young ladies in comfortable and unmoving drawing-rooms to the tinkling of Chickering's pianos.
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.
It would be well if all, of high or low degree, landsmen and sailors, gentle and simple, kept to old John Hadden's rule.
You know that the heads of you landsmen are not so steady as those of seamen.
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.
Before I end my explanations, it may be well to define a day's work, and to correct a mistake prevalent among landsmen about a sailor's life.
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.
Then a boat was seen floating bottom upwards some distance from shore, and the report got about that the gang had attempted to cross to France, but being landsmen had overturned the boat, and were all drowned.
Not meaning to apply the term to Peter Bligh, but by way of what the landsmen call 'silime,'" said Mister Jacob.
I believe that only poets and landsmen are fond of bad weather; and the steersman occasionally threw a demure, quizzical glance at a young girl who was hanging on by one hand to the companion hatch.
To all who come hither, the first great object of interest will be the Taj Mahal, or tomb of the wife of Emperor Shah-Jehan, the most interesting building in India, and perhaps the most beautiful in the world.
Its modern history is interwoven with the great mutiny, and our local guide wearied us by expatiating volubly upon the subject.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
