"Sailor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... galley! Could anything happen in such ships to bring one to awe and wonder? The dark of the human mind is now lighted, one may say, with electricity. We have no shadows to make us hesitate. That book of sea superstitions was on my table, some weeks later, and a sailor, who gave up trading to the East to patrol mine-fields for three years, and who has never been known to lose any time when in doubt through wasting it on a secret propitiatory gesture, picked up the book, smiling a little superciliously, lost his smile when examining it, and then asked if ...
— London River • H. M. Tomlinson
... now. Canon Wrottesley's two elder sons with her and a sailor friend of theirs, and she was smiling at them all quite indiscriminately and doing considerable damage to their hearts without in ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
... darksome wood, And the hoar altar, wet with human blood! Marked ye the Angel-spectre that appeared? By other hands the holy fane[60] is reared High on the point, where, gazing o'er the flood, Confessed, the glittering apparition stood. And now the sailor, on his watch of night, Sees, like a glimmering star, the far-off light; Or, homeward bound, hears on the twilight bay 160 The slowly-chanted vespers die away! These scenes are fled and passed, ...
— The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 • William Lisle Bowles
... the youthful Whig found himself a playmate of Princes. Prince George of Hanover and Prince George of Cambridge were staying with King William IV. at the Pavilion; their companions were chosen from Dr. Everard's seminary; and the King amused his nephews and their friends with sailor's stories, "sometimes rather coarse ones." In his holidays little Freddy enjoyed more refined society at Holland House. In 1828 his mother wrote with just elation: "He always sits next to Lord Holland, and they talk without ...
— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell
... the Swede was a good prize, and had much contraband goods on board, though we could find none: but being supported by my officers, well armed, I at length pacified the men, after putting ten of the mutineers in irons, and soundly whipping a sailor who had excited the rest. This mutiny would not have been easily got the better of, but for the number of our officers, whom we now found very useful in bringing our crews under good discipline, a very difficult matter in privateers, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr
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