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Sailor in sentence

519 examples of Sailor in a sentence

"Well!" said the reporter, pressing the sailor's hand.
The sailor squeezed the reporter's hand, for he could not make himself heard, in a way which signified "Wait!" then he reentered the passage.
The reporter and Herbert walked behind the dog, and the sailor brought up the rear.
As soon as the sailor and his companions left the precipice, the wind struck them again with renewed fury.
Spilett and the sailor turned pale.
The poor Negro, absorbed in his grief, evidently had neither seen his companions nor heard the sailor speak.
For the present the question was, how to recall him to life, and it appeared likely that rubbing would bring this about; so they set to work with the sailor's jersey.
The sailor concocted something which he introduced between the lips of the engineer, who eagerly drinking it opened his eyes.
On the way the sailor could not help repeating,--"Island or continent!
"It's my opinion," said the sailor, "that Captain Harding will be able to listen to you still better, if he will have some more grouse jelly,--for we have grouse, captain," added he, presenting him with a little of this jelly, to which he this time added some of the flesh.
"Well!" said the sailor, "there is plenty of food at the Chimneys, for you must know, captain, that down there, in the south, we have a house, with rooms, beds, and fireplace, and in the pantry, several dozen of birds, which our Herbert calls couroucous.
"But," resumed the sailor, "can you tell us what happened after you were carried off by the sea?"Cyrus Harding considered.
The sailor did as the engineer requested.
But he was obliged to lean on the sailor, or he would have fallen.
This accident, which appeared so very serious to Pencroft, produced different effects on the companions of the honest sailor.
Herbert shared in some degree the sailor's feelings.
"Never mind!" said the sailor, "the captain will help us soon."
The sailor, extremely vexed, tried in all sorts of ways to procure fire.
The sailor was wrong to despise the proceeding.
The hardy sailor could not restrain a burst of laughter on seeing the efforts of the lad to succeed where he had failed.
"That's capital!" cried the sailor.
And the sailor recounted all that had passed the day before.
"We shall consider," replied the engineer, "and if we do not find some substance similar to tinder--""Well?" asked the sailor.
"Chemicals?""Chemicals!""It is not more difficult than that," cried the reporter, striking the sailor on the shoulder.
"What?""Fire," said the sailor, who, also, had a fixed idea.
"Yes, fire!" said the obstinate sailor again.
"Captain," said the sailor, "since you are speaking of game, if on my return, I was as certain of roasting it as I am of bringing it back--""Bring it back all the same, Pencroft," replied Harding.
Neb, Herbert, and the sailor were to return to the forest, renew their store of wood, and lay violent hands on every creature, feathered or hairy, which might come within their reach.
All three climbed the bank; and arrived at the angle made by the river, the sailor, stopping, said to his two companions,--"Shall we begin by being hunters or wood-men?"
"We will hunt, then," said the sailor, "and afterwards we can come back and collect our wood."
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