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Example sentences for "lubberly"

Lexicographically close words:
ltniss; ltnisse; lua; lubber; lubbers; lubly; lubra; lubras; lubrica
  1. Rudders were smashed, bulwarks crashed in, and damage done in every way, but the crowd of lubberly craft pushed on in spite of the confusion that everywhere reigned.

  2. The Teeth-chatter or Gum-didder of Lubberly Lusks.

  3. I will tell you, "You lubberly dog, you lie.

  4. But if ever there was in my humble opinion a lubberly series of accidents from the time she got on shore to the time she was on her beam ends alongside the wharf, it was on board H.

  5. He is a stout lubberly boy, with infinite good humour, and not at all stupid, and laughs a good real nigger yahyah, which brings the fresh breezes and lilac mountains of the Cape before me when I hear it.

  6. I'd throw my ground-tackle overboard before I would be guilty of so lubberly an act!

  7. That word "harbour" comes to mean a good deal to the houseboater who attempts to make a cruiser of his unseaworthy, lubberly craft.

  8. They told of a unique and spirited way the Indians had of catching these huge, lubberly fish.

  9. The boats were gone from her skids, and the davit tackles, swinging lubberly overside, told that her crew had left her.

  10. We clutched and pounded at the board-like cloths, dug with hooked fingers to make a crease for handhold, and at last turned the sail to the yard, though lubberly and ill-furled.

  11. Hark you; how came the long lubberly fool, Jenkins, being a master of the noble science of defence, to suffer himself to be run through the body so simply by a rustic swain like this same Peveril?

  12. Another thing, master: you treat that poor lubberly Jekin like a brute, and I'll not see it done, so look to it.

  13. I was a great lubberly lad, I know, and tented the cattle then upon the moors.

  14. I wonder you can encourage the Boy to swill so much of that lubberly liquor----it's enough to make him quite stupid.

  15. On the eighth of March, a lovely spring day, the Merrimac made her trial trip by going into action with her wheezy old engines, lubberly crew, and the guns she had never yet fired.

  16. Perhaps the worst of all the disabilities under which the abortive Southern navy suffered was lubberly administration and gross civilian interference.

  17. What ails that lubberly wet-nurse to all the geese in the ship?

  18. From the wharf at Selby's we watched with careless interest the lubberly manoeuvre performed of bringing the yacht to anchor, and the equally lubberly manoeuvre of sending the small boat ashore.

  19. Nicholas and I had caught the spirit of the crazy craft, and we handled her in most lubberly fashion.

  20. She was his pet; why give her up to be sailed by a lubberly Frenchman?

  21. Although she was a fine vessel to look at, she grounded upon the bar upon her first attempt to sail, and, when once free, behaved herself in such a lubberly fashion that those who witnessed her starting out declared she was bewitched.

  22. See how that great lubberly Rufe treated our Zeph yist'day!

  23. Great wold and day and night, and the smithy with the older and the younger smith, and the lubberly boy that helped, and the few travellers and comers-by.

  24. Hut of the old man and his daughter and the lubberly boy, hut of Joan and Godfrey, Emmy was the daughter’s name and she had second sight.

  25. Britishers were different in nearly all their natural circumstances, while, to increase the difference, their practice became greatly modified by a deal of good but sometimes rather lubberly legislation.

  26. Ranzo's progress from a lubberly tailor to a good smart sailor is then related with infinite variations, but always with the same gusto.

  27. Experienced sailors, in like circumstances, acquainted with the varieties of winds prevailing in those seas, would speedily get their vessels out of this scrape, into which the lubberly Chinese junks sometimes fall.

  28. This is like Merry-Andrew on the low rope copying lubberly the same tricks which his master is so dexterously performing on the high.

  29. Waiting for a wind in port is lubberly seamanship, for he that wants one should go outside and look for it.

  30. Do not use such a lubberly expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession.

  31. I am not responsible for this lubberly calamity.

  32. Come fair or fowl, I'm a tar for all men; a seaman ever ready to face a foe, so here goes, you lubberly moon manufactured calf.

  33. It's like a whole flotilla attacking one vessel--a lubberly proceeding at the best, and I'll be hanged if I like it.

  34. Why should you throw away your life upon a lubberly vampyre?

  35. I wish I had you on board ship, I'd make your lubberly carcass like a union jack, full of red and blue stripes.

  36. You infernal scoundrel; how dare you preach to me in such a way, you lubberly rascal?

  37. Look at that great lubberly fellow with the queer smock-frock.

  38. Why, you lubberly lying swab, how dare you say so?

  39. One as hates the French, and is never so happy as when he's alongside o' some o' those lubberly craft blazing away.

  40. His youth was like that of the lubberly younger sons in the fairy stories.

  41. Popular imagination has everywhere got at something of this sort in its views of the lubberly younger brother, the ash-raker and idler who carries off the princess.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lubberly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    awkward; boorish; bulky; bumbling; bungling; careless; churlish; clumsy; cumbersome; cumbrous; elephantine; fumbling; gauche; gawky; graceless; hulking; inelegant; loutish; lumbering; lumpish; lumpy; maladroit; massive; ponderous; raffish; roughneck; rowdy; ruffianly; rugged; sloppy; stiff; uncouth; ungainly; ungraceful; unhandy; unwieldy