If that aged sailorman could remember Billy Harper, I see no reason why I should not some day meet the husband of my sister who lives in Salt Lake City.
I met that aged sailorman glad-eyed and beaming, with all the simulated relief at deliverance that a drowning man would display on finding a life-preserver in his last despairing clutch.
That aged sailorman worked hard to recollect, but the Billy Harper of my imagination was beyond his faded memory.
For fully half an hour longer, the sailorman and I talked on in similar fashion.
The sailorman walked slowly into the room and looked about him.
He knew that Mr. Toby would not mind making a little gift to the sailorman after his long journey.
One of the Committee rose and offered the sailorman his chair.
Freddie looked at the Sailorman, and the Sailorman straightened up and touched his cap.
Looks like some sailorman might have drawn it, maybe; it's certainly pretty old.
Jimmy made a sign to Prescott and went up the ladder, and when he stood on deck the grizzled sailormanwondered at the change in him.
Still, the days had slipped by, and there was no word from the silent north which has been for many a sailorman and sealer the fairway to the tideless sea.
There could be no greater insult to a self-respecting sailorman than this phrase.
I believe that they really intended to, but you know the sailorman ashore scents the rum barrel, and becomes an easy prey to the crimp and boarding-house runner.
But there is a good-hearted sailorman on board the British ship.
That is the sailorman who saved me from the Indian women, and brought me safe home," exclaimed Anne.
I wish I could hear the sailorman speak of my father," said Anne, "and tell me of his little girls in England.
The sailorman gazed at her, long and earnest, and turned to his mate.
The first sight she saw when she opened the door was a sailorman standing there under the verandah, and smiling at her with a shiny, good-natured face.
I should like to ask an abler sailorman than Peterson what to do, with the glass falling as it is, and the holding ground none too good for an anchor.
The sailorman no longer eats his meals sitting on a deck with the food spread out before him on a piece of canvas.
You associate certain words with certain jingles--perhaps it would be better to say certain jangles--and then you pat yourself on the back and feel that you are pretty nearly half as good as a sailorman in Uncle Sam's navy.
He was there with his back against the closed door, and his lean figure towered over the shorter sailorman in dungaree, who stood gazing up at him questioningly.
The toughest and best sailorman on the Labrador coast!
But I only wish you could see the sorry sort of sailorman you look.
I vas a sailorman pefore you vas borned, und I knot und reef und splice ven you play mit topstrings und fly kites.
Chris, mine boy, I haf ben a sailorman for twenty-two years, und do you t'ink you are so good as me?
This is piracy on the high seas, and you don't have to be much of a sailorman to know what that means.
Any court would have exonerated the sailorman for killing his assailants, but Dave's messenger was much too good-natured to kill while there was another path to safety.
It wasn't really a letter, sir," the sailorman replied, this time with a very broad grin.
I hope we shan't run into a gang of hoodlums again," said the sailorman respectfully.
Before I lead the way I will ring for some one to see that your sailorman is well taken care of.
Cap'n Bill had determined to fight desperately for their lives, but he was a shrewd old sailorman and he found much that was reasonable in the Witch's assertion that fairies would protect them.
Here in the servants' hall there was one vacant seat next to Button-Bright which was reserved for Trot; but the little girl had not yet appeared and the sailorman and the boy were beginning to be uneasy about her.
Then he rushed down stairs into the courtyard, shouting loudly for his soldiers and threatening to patch everybody in his dominions if the sailorman was not recaptured.
Some of them soon got ahead of the old sailorman and came to the rope ladder which Trot had left dangling from the stone bench, where it hung down inside the City.
When supper was over and Trot had helped with the dishes she joined Button-Bright and the sailorman on the little porch again.
The old sailorman had refilled his pipe and lighted it again, and he smoked thoughtfully as he pegged along beside the children.
The sailorman did not seem to be in any of the rooms she entered, so she decided to visit the Boolooroo's own apartments.
When the old sailorman at one time spilled some tea on the tablecloth Trot's mother flew angry and gave the culprit such a tongue-lashing that Button-Bright was sorry for him.
Meantime Cap'n Bill had the army assembled in the Court of the Statues, where Queen Mayre appeared and told the Pinkies that the sailorman was to be Commander in Chief of the Expedition and all must obey his commands.
Button-Bright took to his heels and ran along the passages until he came to Cap'n Bill's room, where the sailorman and Trot were anxiously awaiting him.
So Cap'n Bill and the Boolooroo had breakfast together, six Blueskins standing in a row back of the sailorman to grab him if he attempted to escape.
Cap'n Bill sat flat upon the ground, landing with a force that jarred the sailorman and made his teeth click together, while down upon him came the seat that Trot and Button-Bright occupied, so that for a moment they were all tangled up.
Wyllard strode up and down the room, and when he sat down again with a clenched hand laid upon the table he and the sailorman looked at each other steadily for a moment or two.
The sailorman once more felt in his pocket and took out a piece of paper cut from a chart.
She's married a sailorman before the mast, a Liveyere from the Labrador, a man without a dollar, suspected of being Episcopalian.
The Norman sailormanis a hardy, intrepid navigator even to-day, but he is to a great extent of the longshore and fishing-boat variety, whereas the true Breton is a sailor through and through.
How did a sailorman contrive to tumble over-board?
Stavin' the timbers was what you might call an accident, an' didn't come about through carelessness, so I allow that he put her in here as neatly as any sailorman could.
Do you mean to tell me you're the sailorman who fell out of the motor boat, leavin' Sonny alone?
Many a sailorman has got up a ship's side, thinking it was stairs, and gone off half acrost the world instead of going to bed, through him.
They was both pretty talkers, and the way they went on was a education for every sailorman afloat.
I've licked every kind in the sailorman line, from a nigger up to Six-fingered Jack the Portugee.
A man with less assurance and slighter knowledge of sailorman character might have been less abrupt--might have given them a moment in which to reflect.
From her throne among the pine needles Helen looked up at the sailormanand frowned.
But the particular sailorman that Latimer bought for Helen Page and put on sentry duty carried on his shoulders most grave and unusual responsibilities.
In Helen's ears Latimer's commands to the sailormanrang as clearly as though Latimer stood before her and had just spoken.
So, alone and with no one to come to his relief, the sailorman stood his watch.
Then it tired of him, and went off to try to drown the Chapman boy, leaving the sailorman motionless with his arms outstretched, balancing in each hand a tiny oar and smiling happily.
But when the wind suddenly drove past them the sailorman sprang into action and the crow screamed in alarm and darted away.
With a joyous laugh that was a sob, she clutched the sailorman in both her hands and kissed the beseeching, worshipping smile.
Once a fox stole into the secret hiding-place, but the sailorman flapped his oars and frightened him away.
Meanwhile, from the branch of the tree in the sheltered, secret hiding-place that overlooked the ocean, the sailorman kept watch.
For one thing, a sailorman has a sweetheart in every port.
With one hand Helen Page dragged down the branch on which the sailorman stood, with the other she snatched him from his post of duty.
I'm playin' I'm a tug towin' this 'ere sailorman to bed.
I caught myself wondering if the folks in Liverpool could only see me now; and I thought of yellow- haired Gussie, whose brother I licked after my first voyage, just because he was not for having a sailorman courting his sister.
Instead there was only this cowed, miserable sailorman taking over the wheel.
I know he's a sailorman by the cut of his jib," I said.
I did not need his warning; the mere presence of either of the pair was sufficient to keep any sailorman wide awake and watchful of his p's and q's while steering her.
It's more than pity will bring a sailorman like me into port.
Mary looked quizzically across at the sailorman through the dim light of a car interior passing under a Hammersmith archway.
XV To the disappointment of the drawing-room, Klondyke and the sailorman sat a long time together.
XI One of Mary Pridmore's first acts upon her return from Greylands was to summon thesailorman to dine in Queen Street.
The haunted eyes of thesailorman too clearly proclaimed his knowledge.
VIII Mary's enthusiasm for the sailorman was shared by Silvia, although not perhaps in an equal degree.
As the sailormanwas handing them into the car, Silvia said: "By the way, have you remembered to tell Mr. Harper about Klondyke?
He's the black sheep of the family, of course you know that," she said, feeling it necessary to take precautions against this delightful young sailorman who had already intrigued her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailorman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
