Longshore owners, those merchants who become notorious for sending their ships to sea scantily provided with stores and provisions.
The homely chat of the two men, their queer 'longshore phrases, the rough sympathy they sought to convey by their speech, were delightful to listen to.
Longshore pirates on both coasts being numerous, I could not afford to make light of the advice.
We felt toward her," Doctor Longshore said, "as if she were our own child.
It just flashed through my mind what sort of rig I was in--I looked over my infernal longshore toggery, and no wonder she didn't recollect me at all.
Next minute in came the whole party, and supposing from my plain clothes I was merely some longshore traveller, they put their savage through his dance with great vigour.
Altogether to their joint account in the Clinkerport Bank their bankbook showed now just a few dollars over eight thousand--to these plain longshorepeople an actual fortune.
What can't be cured must be endured,'" repeated thislongshore philosopher.
Lorna might never hear it, but Ralph's association with the longshore folk was much closer than that of most of the dwellers on Clay Head.
She would flutter back again anon to dry the longshore wastes and warm to life the scant herbage that tries its best to clothe the Cape Cod barrens.
Beyond having a good time swimming, and boating, and fishing, and following other longshore pursuits, Lorna had no thought.
No ordinary longshore clam digger would own such a thing.
His sister's inbred terror of the sea (shared by so many longshore women) made little impression on Tobias Bassett.
Surely this trumpery Scotchman in Jews' finery is no gentleman, nor the longshore lout he has got with him.
I only took to the coasting line two or three years ago, when you and I first ran foul of each other; and the reason for my doing that was in cons'quence of my getting spliced, and the missus wanting me to take a 'longshore berth.
She was the Sprite, and he had formed a 'longshore acquaintance with her skipper that summer, meeting him in harbors where the Sprite and Olenia had been neighbors in the anchorage.
But while he sneaked in the purlieus of the city several of his 'longshore friends passed him without a second look.
Seamanship was shelved, for a time at least, and we were employed like longshorelabourers on the ship's hull.
Longshore lubbers like those never recollect what a man may have done for his country in times gone by.
I've had plenty of them and to spare from those mealy-mouthed, false-hearted, longshore lubbers in there!
Ferguson returned to the attack, and, metaphorically, dangled the Dowager Countess ofLongshore before her.
Pardon me, Monsieur Renard, but the Countess of Longshore is most anxious that you should be presented to her.
I've even shown Lady Longshore how to make the money she wants.
She was almost affectionate to Timbs when Lady Longshore repeated his stories.
On the day appointed, Lady Longshore was the first guest to be announced.
On the wharf was a big automobile, surrounded by a gaping crowd of small boys and 'longshore loafers.
I judged that the young lady must have gone away with the idea that I was a combination of longshore lout and effeminate dilettante, with the financial resources of the former.
And in his heart he had a subtle fear of these queer longshore people, although he had sense enough to know that it was a Sailor's duty to trample that feeling under foot.
But making every allowance for longshore extravagance there could be no doubt that this new existence was sheer luxury after six years of Sing and wet hash and hard-tack and a bed in the half-deck of the Margaret Carey.
Folks would think you were talkin' 'bout a gal; but, what ken a longshore fellow know 'bout a shep!
The costumes, gestures, manners and the language of the longshore advance guard, always seem to me to have a due relation each to each, and to those other things that the traveler meets further inland.
But, after all, while the longshore population of every land is rather different from the rest of the inhabitants, the former, in Europe at least, exhibit the national earmarks to a degree sufficient to satisfy the average tourist.
I was down 'longshore shrimping, and it was a good piece out to sea, and a heavy tide running.
One told what the longshore shrimper had said of finding the body near the fishing-ground known as the Mooragh.
I was gazing with pleasure at this animated 'longshore picture, full of color and splendor and movement, when I observed a gentleman rapidly coming along the pier, which happened to be almost deserted.
She was the woman who had carried away the book from Longshore Jack.
If he goes ashore, we could tip off Longshore Jack to keep an eye on him.
It was the voice of the Longshore Jack woman who had had those adventures with me.
It flashed into my mind that this man might be his friend, the "Longshore Jack" who was to keep an eye upon me as well as upon Mr. Jermyn.
I mean to put Longshore Jack on to this Mr. Jermyn.
Tunis Latham was thirty, handsome in the bold way of longshore men, and ruddy-faced.
It is a remarkable fact that mostlongshore women have little interest in the beauties or wonders to be found along the beaches, even in the sea itself.
At regular periods the great longshore radios threw out war warnings to guide us in a choice of routes and warn us away from mined areas.
We are content to leave our fraternization with the beach to the far distant day when we shall retire from the sea-service, 'swallow the anchor,' and settle down to longshore life.
As such, we may lay claim to a common liberty, and look at our seafaring selves from an average point of longshore view.
To the longshore division, who compose and arrange the integrals of our convoys, we have added a sea-staff of commodores, R.
We cannot appropriate a longshore point of view, we cannot conceal our seafaring and merge into the crowd.
With their coming we are introduced to a line of longshore life that had escaped us.
Our slender thread of communication with longshore happenings is often broken, and understanding is warped by conjecture.
There was a profitable 'longshore commerce in farm products and small manufactures, boats penetrating up the rivers far inland.
There was an active longshore coasting service by small craft, which ascended the rivers and gathered produce from the farmers; these they took to neighboring ports, and brought back other colonial products in exchange.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longshore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
