Your father persists in believing that my father is some sailor who robbed him.
Russian Sailor Slave] It was also here in Etrek, in the tent of a distinguished Turkoman named Kotchak Khan, that I encountered a Russian, formerly a sailor in the naval station at Ashourada.
One sailor who claimed to have been an officer in the British navy had an excellent tenor voice, and delighted not only his messmates, but frequently the officers as well, with his rendering of popular songs.
The Alabama proved to be a good sailor under canvas, and the greater number of her prizes were taken simply under sail.
The sailor who grabbed at him first missed him, and the boat shot ahead of him, which rendered it necessary for her to turn and pull back a short distance before she could rescue him.
On the day that the captive Indian was set ashore, a Biscayan sailor died, who had been wounded by the Caribs in the fight between the boat's crew and the canoe.
He meant to send with it a sailor who had been to Guinea, and some of the Guanahani Indians.
He gave orders that every sailor should draw lots as to who should make a pilgrimage to Santa Maria of Guadeloupe, to carry her a five-pound wax candle.
The lot having fallen this time upon a sailor of the harbor of Santa Maria, named Pedro de Villa, the Admiral promised to give him all the money necessary for the expenses.
Of all its glories the greatest, as it has proved, was connected with the life and discoveries of the sailor who was now to approach them.
A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana was the first to see this land.
A sailor first saw the summits of three mountains, and gave the cry of land.
He was an excellent sailor and at the same time he was a learned geographer and a good mathematician.
The coming of the old sailor ended the battle, so far as the bad boys from Rockpoint were concerned.
There are hardly any conditions under which, after his passage from the Continent, the early sailor would have found it impossible to make either the Needles channel or Spithead.
On either side high land will comfort and guide a sailor almost throughout the passage, and upon the northern shore is the best conceivable arrangement of chances for his rescue from a gale or from the chance of a tide.
The snarling continued, mingled with soothing cries from Venning; and then the weird howl burst forth anew, daunting the sailor who was carrying out the captain's order.
They had cause now for uneasiness, and the boys for the first time began to entertain suspicions about Muata's faithfulness, for the loss of the Okapi in the very thick of the forest meant to them what marooning is to the sailor man.
Now, however, a bill came to him touching the desertion of a sailor in the navy.
Congress was willing to strike the black record of the sailor from the books, but President Roosevelt would not have it.
Well, the sailor has come to the fore again; and honest-hearted Nina travelled here from Pisa with the news, and we sent for his lordship to come down and hear it.
It seems that Bianca had been married when very young to a sailor named Dromio; within a month of the wedding he sailed away again and did not return.
A sailor was standing before it, his head bent over the volumes.
As the ship sped along, some of her men saw a Spanish sailor struggling in the water.
The struggling sailor clung to the cross and was afterward picked up by one of the small boats.
These islands were discovered nearly four hundred years ago, by Magellan, as we call him in English, a famous sailor and explorer.
A knowledge of the sea among your sex is so rare that a sailor could never value it too greatly in a lady.
Your qualifications as a sailor should make you an excellent mate, and you will tell me how much a month you will take to serve in that capacity?
Helga,' said I, gently touching her hand, 'you are a better sailor than I.
The Dane's a fust-class sailor and a temperate man, and when Tommy there'll give me an opportunity of saying as much for him I'll proclaim it.
Their resolution to proceed might appear as a wonderful stroke of courage to a landsman's mind, but to a sailor it could signify nothing more than the rankest foolhardiness.
A sailor disturbed in his rest, grim, unshorn, scarcely awake, with the nipping night blast to exchange for his blanket, is proverbially the sulkiest and most growling of human wretches.
No, no; the sailor on the Indian seas must pass months and months on shore before he can return to his duty.
The sailor was ordered in, and in a few minutes, who should make his appearance but their tormentor, the one-eyed Schriften.
Well, she must be a capital sailor at all events: look there, a point abaft the beam.
Some days after this conversation, as they were all three seated at table, a corporal entered, and saluting the Commandant, informed him that a Dutch sailor had arrived at the fort, and wished to know whether he should be admitted.
His hair was flaxen, and fell in long flakes upon his shoulders, his complexion fair, and his eyes of a soft blue; although there was little of the sailor in his appearance, few knew or did their duty better.
I felt like a shipwrecked sailor on a great, big, lonely, old island.
Selecting a blue serge dress, made sailor fashion, she slipped into it and began fastening it as she walked to the mirror.
The sailor is no more what he used to be than the ship is.
List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.
It is thus that the sailor "makes it," triumphantly!
I guess your flannel sailor suit will be the best, Jewel.
Two groups of men had always known a good deal about the weather from experience: the sailor had to know it to save his life, and the farmer had to cultivate a weather eye along with his early peas.
He treats in simple language of the many problems confronting the amateur sailor and motor boatman.
Among others who attended, was a young sailor of intelligent and prepossessing countenance.
Father T----' was the sailor boy of the prayer meeting and the prison.
And such a pilot and ruler will provide and prescribe for the interest of the sailor who is under him, and not for his own or the ruler's interest?
No soldier or sailor of any other country, saving and excepting those damned Yankees, can stand against them.
Jack Lang, a sailor from New Jersey, scrambled out on the bowsprit, cutlass in his fist, without waiting to see if his comrades were with him, and dropped to the forecastle of the Frolic.
His fame among naval men outshines Perry's, and he is rated as the greatest fighting sailor who flew the American flag until Farragut surpassed them all.
A sailor of Lawrence's heroic temper was unlikely to avoid such a combat, stimulated as he was by the unbroken success of his own navy in duels between frigates.
In this gallant manner did Perry and Barclay, both heirs of the bulldog Anglo-Saxon strain, wage their bloody duel without faltering and thus did the British sailor keep his honor bright in defeat.
At sunrise of the 10th of September, a sailor at the masthead of the Lawrence sighted the British squadron steering across the lake with a fair wind and ready to give battle.
Trained in the school of hard knocks, the sailor knew the value of discipline and gunnery, of the smart ship and the willing crew, while on land the soldier rusted and lost his zeal.
The valiant commander of the squadron, Captain Barclay, was a fighting sailor who had lost an arm at Trafalgar.
Twice each week the crew fired at targets with great guns and musketry and the sailor who hit the bull's eye received a pound of tobacco.
The sailor on his airy shrouds; When wrecks and beacons strew the steep, And spectres walk along the deep.
In her they found a sailor who was to accompany them on their voyage--a noted contrabandista, called Francisco, whose friendship Owen had lately acquired, and who acted as his lieutenant on his marine excursions.
Not if all the wonders seen by Sinbad the Sailorlay within a day's sail.
