windjammers

Resorting to the old trick which came up from South American ports in disreputable windjammers, which is known to the San Francisco waterfront, he raised

Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912

Aged wooden "windjammers" doze at their moorings, everywhere are jabbering natives with that shifty half - cast eye and frequent evidence of deep-rooted disease.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

I used to hold the mail for boys on all the famous old windjammers: the Sophie Sutherland, the Mary Thomas, and a whole fleet of others.

Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon 2010

The Heritage is the newest of the windjammers (built in 1983) by its captains and owners, Doug and Linda Lee, with pure hospitality in mind.

Nancy Clark: Sea-Chic: Sail The Heritage, No Dramamine Needed Nancy Clark 2010

But it coincided with an exhibition commemorating Finnish-owned windjammers involved in the grain trade between Australia and Europe, and we had a very jolly dinner with Alexander Downer and his wife at the Maritime Museum.

Journal for 9 July Alex Allan 2009

Fewer than a dozen of these mighty windjammers remained, but their sailors, as men will, still competed to make the fastest voyage -- hence "The Last Grain Race."

Five Best 2008

Any that remain in service will certainly be phased out as hyperdrive comes in, because it makes them as obsolete as windjammers.

Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

There was nothing worse for morale than idleness, and he wondered how the skippers of the old windjammers had kept their men busy on those interminable voyages.

2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

The waterships in port were nearly all wooden too, archaic windjammers because those had been what the wrights knew how to make; but most had gotten auxiliary engines, and some were hovercraft of fairly modern design.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

The faint sounds of the windjammers pounding out ragtime in the main top began thumping at the insides of his eardrums as the full complement of seventy-five bulls went tail-and-trunk around the hippodrome inside his eyelids.

Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982