Scarcely a mariner perishes at sea who would not require many years of a devotional life to purge himself of his numerous vices.
Any owner, master, or mariner who cast away, burned, or otherwise destroyed a ship to the prejudice of underwriters of policies of insurance or of any merchants whose goods have been loaded on the ship was to suffer death.
It would not be easy to name, before the time of Cook, a navigator to whom the merchant andmariner are so much indebted.
In the time of Homer, all voyages in which the mariner lost sight of land were considered as fraught with the extremest peril.
Then shall the mariner fearlessly cruise over the immense abyss and discover new lands and unknown seas!
This small settlement failed, as is well-known, and the bones of the Genoese mariner who founded it have been mouldering in dust for centuries.
The author heard a mariner of some reputation in his class vouch for having seen the celebrated sea-serpent.
Jolly Mariner of Canton, once more, for the benefit of those that will stick by her; and let the rest have a fling with the fiddlers, who have been summoning us this hour.
What is a simple master-mariner at best alongsides a parson with a persuasive voice?
It seems that Nelly met this good master-mariner a year ago at Bristol, and following the usage of all our swains, he falls in love with her.
Once 'twas on the Atlantic, and the master of our ship, who was a mariner of experience, told me that that outer circle was due to the sun shining through particles of moisture.
What, are you a master-mariner and yet have not learned that the best way to stamp out a mutiny is by a display of promptitude.
The mariner struck the palm of his left hand with his right fist.
On this day it was that that great and boldmariner the Admiral Don Pedro de Valdes by his great daring and the hazard of his life saved my own life, when I had been swept overboard by a mighty sea.
So we said farewell to that gallant mariner Don Pedro de Valdes.
This day no mariner grumbled at the call to awake.
Every mariner now was emulous to be the lookout, every man kept eyes on the west.
His wife drives the canoe, but he himself is so thorough a mariner that he can spring up in his cockle-craft and whack his wife over the head with a paddle without tipping the whole affair into the water.
But his left hand is a marvellously persuasive one, and when on duty his sleeves are turned up to the shoulder that the jovial mariner may see that there is no deception.
It augured hope--more than hope; and, as the wrecked mariner clings to the disjointed spar, his mind fastened upon that smile as the forerunner of a blissful reunion with her his soul cherished.
The insecurity of his position was so tedious, that he sought, as the tempest-tost mariner seeks the quiet haven, to fortify it, so that he might be at rest from the tormenting doubts which assailed him.
Like the breaking clouds which disclose to the worn mariner the faint outline of the distant land, he hails it as the omen of future bliss!
Evidently the retired mariner deemed this prohibition sufficient, for he made no further mention of the matter.
He was still indignant with Captain Huxham for his base offer, and came to the conclusion that the ex-mariner was mad when he made it.
If the soul has a hundred compasses pointing in different ways, what compass shall lead the bewildered mariner to know the true compass?
Never did a mariner on a storm-tossed vessel keep his eye more resolutely fixed on beams from a distant lighthouse.
Of The Ancient Mariner I have already told you, although perhaps it is too full of fearsomeness for you to read yet.
But one day as the Mariner watched the water snakes, the only living things in all that dreadful waste, he blessed them unaware, merely because they were alive.
Then, relieved from his terrible agony of soul, the Mariner slept, and when he woke he found that the dreadful drought was over, and that it was raining.
Meyer, then and there being in and on board of the said brig, and being a mariner and master and commander of the said brig, and the said Thies N.
But they were reassured by the ancient mariner with the striped shirt, whose mission in life seemed to be to stand about and enlighten land-minds about sea-facts.
She had a moment only of suspense after speaking, and then, as his voice came in answer, she breathed again freely.
This cliff extended for leagues in both directions, rendering drowning nearly inevitable to the shipwrecked mariner on that inhospitable coast.
These last required a little more time; but I am satisfied that, in all things but judgment, a clever lad, who has a taste for the business, can make himself a very useful and respectable mariner in six months of active service.
Though Doctor Grenfell was himself a master mariner and thoroughly qualified as a navigator, he had never crossed the Atlantic, and in any case he was to be fully occupied with other duties.
The mariner had to carry everything in his head, and indeed he must still do so.
To their own steady nerves, and the intervention of Providence the fearless mariner and his little crew undoubtedly owed their lives.
By means of the rudder the mariner guides the ship in whatever direction he pleases.
I am Sebastianillo, a poor broken mariner of Padron, and my master for the present is the gentleman whom you see, the most valiant and wealthy of all the English.
There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.
Yet the grey Manxman--the oldest mariner of all--declared that the wild thrilling sounds that were heard, were the voices of newly drowned men in the sea.
Yet where is the mariner who will tell thee, "Sir, it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me?
So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon.
