That was Martin, our gallantly truculent, overbearing Old Martin; and, as we looked on the motionless figure outlined by folds of the Flag, we thought with regret of the time we took a pleasure in rousing him to a burst of sailorly invective.
The sailmaker was sewing him up in the clew of an old topsail, a sailorly shroud that Martin would have chosen.
The moresailorly you are, the more he will admire you.
He then, and with a sailorly eye methought, despite his whiskers and dingy fleshy face and fixed smile, sent a searching glance to windward, following it on with a cautious survey of the horizon.
A line lay ready, as though our want had been foreseen; with sailorly celerity the white man gathered it into fakes, and in a few moments the coils were flying through the air.
Clearly his study in the direction of posture was animated by a theory of careless, youthful, sailorly elegance; yet never did nautical man so completely answer to one's notions of a West-End hairdresser.
Caudel taking the earth with sailorly strides bowled and rolled along at her right, keeping her between us.
We were received by the captain of the yacht, a fellow with a face that reminded me somewhat of Caudel, of a countenance and bearing much too sailorly to be rendered ridiculous by his livery of gold band and buttons.
This was good sailorly logic, and they climbed back into their bunks, to smoke, to read, or to talk themselves to sleep again.
Miss Sheldon, I have wondered if it were possible that you could be like your picture--and you are," he returned with true sailorly bluntness.
But Barry expected only sailorly qualities and loyalty from his officers; on the first count he was satisfied with Rolfe, and his doubts were few on the second.
Mate McGaw was a sailorly man and understood how to fit one fact with another.
Much of what had, in 1653, been sailorly had been eaten out by time, and he flourished chiefly on those instincts which had miserably won him his doom.
McLean read them by sea-lore and sailorly instinct alone--the skipper combining these qualities with more scientific forecasts in squints at barometer and compass.
In their parti-garb make-up the women looked more sailorlythan the sailors themselves.
Trolling out this sailorly reproof of Don's fears, the captain stretched himself in the bottom of the boat, and drawing a tai paulin over his nose, was soon sleeping off the effects of his recent exertions ashore.
And having delivered himself of this sailorly apology for his weakness, he added in his usual voice: "Blow me!
While Darius was not well acquainted with the stream, he had a sailorly eye for bad places, and never made the mistake of trying to jump the little vessel where she was likely to be held hard and fast.
Darius claimed that he could treat it after a sailorly fashion, provided we found clean water and cotton cloth, and declared that it would heal as well after such treatment as if any save a skilled surgeon had dressed it.
A burly individual in sailorly garb came down the beach from Maru's house to meet them.
Illustration: A burly individual insailorly garb came down the beach.
It will be observed how characteristically sailorly he is in his leanings on Divine monopoly in punishing the "bloody Corsican" for his wickedness in waging war against Britain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailorly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
