seaman-like

Up aloft, from sounds and cries, I knew were other men, undoubtedly those who were at least a little seaman-like, loosing the sails.

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If I felt this was a slight on my own seaman-like qualities, I was undoubtedly correct.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

He never alluded to the affair again in any way whatever, but went at his work in the same systematic and seaman-like manner that had, from the first, marked him as a thorough sailor.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

He had always prided himself on his seaman-like ways, and to proceed thus, down the great river, like a mountebank, or a Cockney out on a Bank Holiday, hurt his feelings more than he could say.

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

Down came in most seaman-like style the proud flag of merry England -- the

A Love Story A Bushman

Soon a little sailorly and seaman-like fellow named Ford, whose interest in the strange ship was marked, came from the group near the mizzen and asked if he should get the signal halyards ready.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

It is but justice here to acknowledge how much we were indebted to the intrepidity, courage, and seaman-like behaviour of

Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards

I heard those hardy fishermen make some observation, for at intervals, we were not many yards from their houses, either in derision of the cutter being imagined competent to work through the channel, or in laudation of the seaman-like skill with which she was managed.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

The clever lad, even in his infancy, must have noticed that the wretched apology for a ship which they offered him was not rigged in seaman-like fashion.

Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes

Managed with seaman-like dexterity, and superior in sailing capacity to vessels belonging to any other nation, they could not be easily captured.

Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper