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- noun irregular Plural form of
landsman .
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Examples
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In this awful moment of suspense, which seemingly but preceded the disuniting of soul and body, each of the young men turned a breathless look of horror upon the old hunter, such as landsmen in a terrible gale at sea would turn upon the commander of the vessel; but, save an almost imperceptible quiver of the lips, not a muscle of the now stern countenance of Boone changed.
Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett
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We spend much of our time sorting truth from the web of myths spun about fracking by fast talking landsmen, smarmy CEOs, and federal regulators.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The Fracking Industry's War On The New York Times -- And The Truth Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2011
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There's no end of landsmen don't believe in the Flyin '
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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Early in the novel, we're given some backstory: how deepsmen and Venetians clashed centuries earlier, how the deepsmen got the better of the landsmen, forcing them to accept a mermaid Queen, and after subsequent generations of inter-breeding, deepsman/landsman hybrids ruling every country.
Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters (2009) Adam Roberts 2010
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Lasky and Zukor were Jews, landsmen, and Cecil was only half a landsman, and not even that much emotionally.
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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He was not a cruel man, but he held landsmen and women in a kind of placid contempt and so felt little sympathy for their trifling complaints.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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He was not a cruel man, but he held landsmen and women in a kind of placid contempt and so felt little sympathy for their trifling complaints.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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And so they have, in In Great Waters: deepsmen and landsmen having interbred to produce hybrid humans who dominate the royal houses of Europe.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Ye landsmen all, on you I call, and gallant seamen too,
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He was not a cruel man, but he held landsmen and women in a kind of placid contempt and so felt little sympathy for their trifling complaints.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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