We went out ter hunt fer a fillibuster's ship when wot wuz our surprise ter have ther lubber tackle us.
No, on some motor boats there are what are called land-lubber wheels.
A land-lubber wheel turns in the same direction you want the boat to steer.
I suppose he's some long slab of a lubber after all, ain't he, with no strength.
I'll see if I can't make the lubber say something, providing his tongue's not cut out.
Upon that he kicks the poor little lubber from quarter-deck to bowsprit, or nearly, and goes down to his supper.
I don't suppose I should ever have remembered the lubber from that day to this, except that I liked the looks of Molly smiling at him through the dark.
And a good deal of a lubber even at that, I am afraid.
That the young woman I was sweet upon was already engaged to be spliced to some loblollylubber or other at Cambridge, that she'd never even clapped her precious eyes on!
Yes, miss; so I bore up for London, and the first thing I hear is that you're going to be spliced to some other lubber from Cambridge.
When Mark was ready to construe, Archie and the Lubber produced a couple of battered books, and listened attentively enough to what Mark had to say, noting in light pencil marks unfamiliar verbs and nouns.
The Lubber says he'd have made a great player, a great captain.
Archie and the Lubber practised what they called the "co-operative system of work.
Fortunately he was on the ground, but had retired with the Lubber to a distant bench, busy in bandaging that giant's ankle.
The Lubbersauntered up, sucking a lemon, and stolid as usual.
The Lubber welcomed him warmly, looking very funny, with his swollen foot in a footbath and a huge piece of sticking-plaster across his nose.
Here they found Archie and a friend of his, Lubber West, who in these latter days doubtless would have been superannuated, and not without cause.
The Lubber accepted this assurance with the faith of a child; then he looked at the cupboard.
Although she'd been forced into a marriage with that lubber David, she'd not forgotten me; and she'd come to tell me all.
Gwen went on talking; and at last, when she saw what was up, she ran and fetched my father, and the old lubber hoisted me somehow indoors, and shoved me into a hammock.
Decidedly not; I'm a steady land-lubber for my life: thank you, father.
You need be under no alarm, sir; the thunderinglubber knows what he is about, at that work.
Welch admitted Wylie was liberal with that, and friendly enough with the men; but, still, he preferred to see a ship commanded by the captain, and not by a lubber like Wylie.
He swore a great oath, and said thelubber would be through the ship's side.
Run forwards and see what that lazy lubber of a lamp-trimmer is about.
Two or three voyages will make a man of you, and you will then be able to go back home, and teach the lubber manners, should he forget 'em.
I heard what you said to the lubber as brought you aboard, and I always respects a boy as respects his mother.
The lubber grunted like a pig, and every time he stopped for want of breath in come Master Dolly again with a lightning one which shook him like a thunder-bolt.
And there's more to follow--a fleet of them, as any lubber could tell you.
And by causing the helm to work, this must soon rouse the lubber there stationed, if not already awake.
Thrice did I pass my hand full before the face of the slumberinglubber at the helm, and right between him and the light of the binnacle.
Three times the landlord turned the envious lubber out, but he was no sooner out than he was in again, challenging me to fight.
But, on the contrary, they wheeled confidently and rode jauntily on, and we three meekly followed, having by this time lost the Lubber Fiend, the devil doubtless knew where.
But the Lubber Fiend only shook his head till his ears flapped like burdocks in the wind by the wood edges.
Such was Ysolinde, daughter of Gerard von Sturm, favorer of Lubber Fiends and creator of this strange paradise through which she glided like a spangled Orient serpent.
So soon as I judged it safe I went to the top of the Red Tower and unfolded the paper which Jan the Lubber Fiend had brought me.
Jan the Lubber Fiend stood on his tiptoes and whispered up to me with his elbows on the sill.
See," I said, "do you desire gold, Sir Lubber Fiend?
As we went I saw the wild head and staring eyeballs of Jan the Lubber Fiend peering at us.
That fool, Jan Lubber Fiend, will ever be at his tricks.
But what pleased me better than the appearance of the Lubber Fiend was that ere we had gone quite two miles out of the city we found two well-armed and stanch-looking soldiers waiting for us at a kind of cross-road.
Suddenly a great hand was reached up from the pavement, a folded paper was thrust in at the lattice, and I saw the face of the Lubber Fiend looking up at me from the street below.
I felt oafish and awkward, as Jan Lubber Fiend might have done before the King.
The angry serving-man held the door as wide as possible and stood aside, whereat the Lubber Fiend tucked his head so far down that it seemed to disappear into the cavity of his chest, and scurried along the passage bent almost double.
Lubber Jan," said Ysolinde, "what do you up there?
And with that the Lubber Fiend disappeared in a final avalanche of brick-dust and clay clods.
Tis true; a booby general got him the commission, and the lubber Grootz pays.
Such as fencing with that lubber Robert, and trying to bend his stiff limbs to the noble art of l'escrime.
Often he fancied himself the lubber fiend resting at the fire his hairy strength, and watching for cock-crow as the signal for flinging out-of-doors.
I understand now what a set of oafs we were to despise the poor fellow you wot of, because he was not such a lubber as ourselves.
The Lubbertook up his position near the boys, turning a broad back to them.
The Lubber could have crushed the speaker by mere weight; but he hesitated, and the harder he stared at Desmond the less he fancied the job of kicking him.
John timed his kick, which for a small boy he delivered with surprising force, so accurately that the Lubber fell on his face.
Very soon, the sun was obscured by ever-thickening clouds, John happened to provoke the antipathy of a lout in his form known as Lubber Sprott.
He began to call over as Lubber Sprott neared the place whose Desmond and John awaited him.
Next day, a whole holiday, at nine Bill, both Caesar and John were standing close to the window of Custos' den, waiting for Lubber Sprott to appear.
Then he came back and stood before Hardcastle as if waiting some commandment, but the warrior said: "What is this big lubber here, and what is his name?
However we take it, the sea-life is a hardship the like of which no land-lubber knows.
As it was, they only swore at the stupidity of the Irish lubber they thought he was.
