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Sailor in sentence

519 examples of Sailor in a sentence

Sailor after sailor heaved insults at the monster, which couldn't be bothered with answering back.
He brought us some clothes, jackets and sailor's pants, made out of a fabric whose nature I didn't recognize.
Just then Conseil woke up, together with the Nautilus's sailor.
Had some sailor on board lived to tell the story of this dreadful disaster, or do the waves still keep this casualty a secret?
Inside the corpse of one of these animals there were found a buffalo head and a whole calf; in another, two tuna and a sailor in uniform; in yet another, a soldier with his saber; in another, finally, a horse with its rider.
"And who doesn't want for women, either," softly added the sailor, thinking he was paying the stranger a compliment.
"Oh, I see," said K., looking straight at the whip-man, his skin was burned brown like a sailor's, and his face showed health and vigorous.
"Good sailor!" he replied in answer to a mild young man's envious query; "well, I did feel a little queer ONCE, I confess.
For her I left my father's house, and for her I assumed this disguise, to follow her whithersoever she may go, as the arrow seeks its mark or the sailor the pole-star.
The general was about to ask what these lashes were, and what was Dulcinea's disenchantment, when a sailor exclaimed, "Monjui signals that there is an oared vessel off the coast to the west."
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home!
I am a sailor."
A sailor on watch hailed the boat; the boat replied.
With the eagle glance of a sailor he had recognized there, where another would have seen only a gull hovering over the waves, the sail of a sloop which was directed toward the cost of France.
Only once in those long years did my father return home, which will show you what it meant to be the wife of a sailor in those days.
What do you suppose I hold in this bag?""Bullets," said Troubridge."Something that a sailor needs even more than that," answered the admiral, and turning it over he tilted a pile of acorns on to his palm.
"Sir," said the angry old sailor, "such an officer is at least in no danger of being mistaken for a privateersman."
But it is a useless sailor who does not risk himself every day, and the lives of all of us are in the hands of Him who best knows when to claim them."
This was a sailor named Pencroft, a man of about thirty-five or forty years of age, strongly built, very sunburnt, and possessed of a pair of bright sparkling eyes and a remarkably good physiognomy.
But after having with a penetrating eye observed the open face of the sailor, he was convinced that he had before him an honest man.
"Well," replied Harding, "and in what way do you propose to escape?""By that lazy balloon which is left there doing nothing, and which looks to me as if it was waiting on purpose for us--"There was no necessity for the sailor to finish his sentence.
There the sailor developed his project, which was indeed extremely simple.
Captain Harding had listened to the sailor without saying a word, but his eyes shone with satisfaction.
"How many people do you wish to bring with you?" asked the sailor.
The courageous boy knew of the sailor's plan, and it was not without anxiety that he awaited the result of the proposal being made to the engineer.
It was the work of a few minutes only, and the sailor rejoined his companions.
The sailor, observing the heavy surf on the shore, shook his head.
The sailor thought he recognized gulls and cormorants, whose shrill cries rose above the roaring of the sea.
"It is a promontory," said the sailor; "we must retrace our steps, holding towards the right, and we shall thus gain the mainland."
The sailor was right; they had been thrown, not on a continent, not even on an island, but on an islet which was not more than two miles in length, with even a less breadth.
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