That is a thrilling cry, even in time of peace, and half-slumbering sailors spring to their feet with staring eyes and panting breath.
In the first dog-watch of the next afternoon, when the sailors forward are amusing themselves with pipe and song, the lookout in the foretop cries, "Steamer ho!
Mr. Sheldon wanted me to, but I saw that he had a couple of good sailors in his boat, and I said I’d take my chance staying on the old Hassen.
I don’t see how those sailors we saw managed to keep their footing on here.
Patience, by the way, was a powerful characteristic of the sailors engaged in landing stores on the coast.
The inhabitants seemed uncommonly glad to see British troops, and gave the sailors who were granted shore-leave a particularly warm welcome.
As there was a "U" boat in the offing most of the time, however, the humour of the situation did not strike the sailors till afterwards.
All through the intervening years, our sailors on our merchant vessels, and even, in some instances, those belonging to our navy, were subjected to insults and oppression when met on the high seas by the more powerful ones of the English.
Not only did soldiers and sailors desert, but captains and masters of ships actually abandoned their vessels and cargoes to try their luck at the mines.
Leaving the midshipman and four sailors to guard the boat, we started on foot with the other four for Sonoma Town, which we soon reached.
We passed out, Green following us with loud words, which brought the four sailors to the front-door, when I told him to hush up or I would take him prisoner also.
A few other friends were of the party, but at last they left us, and we were alone upon the sea, and the sailors were busy with the sails and ropes.
Soldiers orsailors who could reach the mines were universally shielded by the miners, so that it was next to useless to attempt their recapture.
Two of the Norwegian sailors were forward keeping as sharp a look-out as was possible for the mist; and as Steve followed the dog he was sensible of a peculiar feeling of chill, as if an icy breath was blowing over him.
Poor people eat it sometimes, sir, for it's nice and white; but we sailors never care for it.
It was another example of the difficulties of navigation in the north, another of the risks to which sailors are exposed.
Yes, sir; I don't want to what the English sailors call spin yarns; that seemed to come naturally after our escape.
She nods and curtsies to each passing wave, kisses some, turns coyly away from others, and altogether behaves as if she really were the thing of life the sailors on board half imagine she is.
Two sailors and I alone were saved by a Lapland walrus boat.
I have but to shut my eyes, any time I wish, and such pictures rise up before me as few but sailors ever see the reality of.
It was a good thing for these unfortunate sailors that this house and camp had been built on shore, and that it contained all the necessaries for cooking, etc, that they were likely to want.
Every defect in our astronomical knowledge helps to wreck our vessels on doubtful coasts; every advance helps to save the lives of many sailors and the cargoes of many merchants.
The means for the payment of the stipends due under existing laws to our disabled soldiers and sailors and to the families of such as have perished in the service of the country will no doubt be cheerfully and promptly granted.
The munificence of Congress has been conspicuously manifested in its legislation for the soldiers and sailors who suffered in the recent struggle to maintain "that unity of government which makes us one people.
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the firstsailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
But sailorsaresailors wherever they may be; it is not easy to beat them.
Do you know what sailors of ancient times meant by 'sea legs?
The Dutch sailors were businesslike in their acts now, and before the alarm had subsided, the schooner's men were lightly hand-tied and passed down to the launch.
A shuffling formation took place, and half of the Dutch sailors ranged up beside the prisoners; the other half remained and herded the gold washers together.
Old Bill Blunt was forward, making the decks rattle with his lusty roar as he drove the little brown sailors to their jobs of preparing for sea.
Salem, where thesailors used to come from," growled Barry.
Vandersee replied with a sharper order that was punctuated by a rifle shot, and on the bank abreast appeared a file of sailors with rifles aimed at the schooner.
The Barang's men certainly looked anything but the rascals she had been told they were; she had never seen sailors more utterly peaceable in their demeanor.
We staid here till we had fully loaded our ship with pepper, which might indeed have been done much sooner, had there not been a mutiny among the people, as the sailors would only do as they themselves pleased.
That night brought the climax; he had reached the limit of endurance and was brought home by two sailors who had found him on the Man-of-War Steps.
The sailors were sluicing the deck with great hoses, and sprinkling it with little watering-cans of disinfectant.
Some of the fishes flopped on board, and were put out of life by the blows of the sailors who dried and stuffed them and sold them afterwards to the passengers.
Then she came back and stood against the wall again, watching the sailorson the man-of-war with unseeing eyes.
The sailors seemed to discuss the matter together.
Back in the days of Henry the Eighth, when England first had a navy, the sailors only worked the ships.
Later, when the ships were armed with many guns and carried a greater spread of canvas, there was no space for great companies of soldiers, and the sailorsbecame gunners as well.
Overwhelmed by the fierce onslaught, the Tripolitans fled for life, the sailors driving them up on the forecastle and overboard in a mass, where their falling bodies sounded like the splash of a ricochet.
It was Spartan treatment; but a year of it made men and sailors of them or else sent them posting home to their mothers and sisters.
To combat this new element of the unknown and uncertain has required sailors and men of a different stripe from the old.
The watchful eyes above the rail saw the anchor and cables and the white jackets of the sailors below decks as they strove to hide themselves in the shadows.
To his surprise, twenty-four American sailors were found prisoners aboard of her.
The sailors bent to their oars, and presently the schooner's head was put to the wind.
Soldiers and sailorshave their excitement to keep them up to the mark; praise and rewards.
It's not that I'm superstitious, but to give a boat a name of bad augury to sailors appears to me.
They stared at us in silent wonderment, while the sailors looked down into our little boat with comical curiosity.
We paddled on very slowly, while the sailors and officers began to gather in little squads, and look at us with mingled curiosity and merriment.
It was estimated that one man engaged in tobacco growing in Virginia kept three Englishmen employed, that is, sailors engaged in transportation, processors and tradesmen.
It is quite likely that the sailors under Hawkins command acquired the habit and took some of the "dried herbs" back to England.
Besides which, he had received an education much superior to that of sailors generally.
I looked with bitter regret toward those faithful sailors who had trusted their lives to my care, and who were now exposed to unnecessary hardships and dangers by my boyish rashness.
The sailors were signaling again and there didn't seem to be any welcome letters in the signals.
He slid his arm down, and all around the ship a ring of red-faced sailors peered at him, some of them grinning broadly.
Five were sailors and firemen from the Andromeda; three were Germans from the Unser Fritz.
By one of those queer chances which sometimes decide the hazard between life and death, the window nearest that end of the room where the sailors strove to protect a few shrieking women had not been broken in.
You must not talk," he said firmly, well knowing that if the sailors and firemen lumbering close behind had not heard her earlier comment it was due solely to the blustering wind.
He swung a couple of the excited sailors out of his way and managed to stem the torrent of Coke's futile curses.
He did not deny himself that the confident air of these hard-bitten sailors made strong appeal to his judgment.
Some sailors were lowering a boat as quietly as possible.
Many of the sailorswanted to join in on behalf of their friends.
If politicians fail to engineer a quarrel, the soldiers and sailors will indulge in one on their own account.
He was searching for Iris, who had been compelled by Coke and Bulmer and her uncle to take shelter behind the score of sailors who still remained at Las Flores.
On the fore-deck groups of sailors and firemen belonging to both vessels were fraternizing.
Sailors themselves, the mind of the cruiser's commander was laid bare to them.
If Philip Hozier was no poet, he was a sailor, and sailorsare notoriously susceptible to the charms of the softer sex.
If she followed the beaten track on her long run to the River Plate--as sailors will persist in miscalling that wondrous Rio de la Plata--she might be signaled from Madeira or the Cape Verde Islands.
Somehow, this flimsy shelter, whichsailors call the "dodger," gave some sense of safety.
Have you seen the curious natural canal which you sailorscall the Hole in the Wall?
Even the hardened sailors soon found that if the atmosphere of the cavern were to remain endurable they might not smoke.
The Government of the day had expressed a desire for the establishment of a medium by which soldiers andsailors might transmit to their homes such small sums as they could manage to save for that purpose.
Some years ago there might have been seen at Wapping, Shadwell, and other localities in London where sailors resorted, announcements in small shop-windows to the effect that letters were written there "to all parts of the world.
But the captain knew that when sailors get an idea into their heads they're no better than children; and if he forced them to stay aboard he wouldn't get much work out of them, and couldn't rely on them in a difficulty.
They owed me a grudge for making them work during the last few days, and most of them dropped into the boat without so much as a word or a look, as sailors will.
There were still sailorsin the coasting trade in those days, you remember.
All I can say is, though, that through this dodge they took the Frenchies unawares and gave them a dressing as British sailors have always done when we've been at loggerheads with them furrin chaps!
It is probably a tattoo mark, the same as all sailors like to deface their bodies with.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
