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Sailor in sentence

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It need not be said that the sailor was proud of his pupil.
"To talk about?" asked the sailor.
"Bread, cakes, tarts!" replied the sailor.
"Come, the bread that this grain of corn will make won't choke us very soon!"Herbert, not attaching much importance to his discovery, was going to throw away the grain in question; but Harding took it, examined it, found that it was in good condition, and looking the sailor full in the face--"Pencroft," he asked quietly, "do you know how many ears one grain of corn can produce?"
"One, I suppose!" replied the sailor, surprised at the question.
"And now, Pencroft," he continued, "do you know how many bushels four hundred thousand millions of grains would make?""No," replied the sailor; "but what I do know is, that I am nothing better than a fool!""Well, they would make more than three millions, at a hundred and thirty thousand a bushel, Pencroft."
cried the sailor.
As to the sailor, from the moment when he found that the foxes were not classed in the genus eatable, they were nothing to him.
According to the sailor, any animal, whatever it was, would be a lawful prize, and the rodents or carnivora which might get into the new snares would be well received at Granite House.
The sailor had also made snares from the long tough fibers of a certain plant, and they were even more successful than the traps.
"My boy," replied the sailor, bending over the trap and drawing out one of these representatives of the family of sus by the little appendage which served it as a tail.
"I am very fond of pig," replied the sailor, "particularly of its feet, and if it had eight instead of four, I should like it twice as much!"
"Then it will be seasonable!" said the sailor.
But the obstinate sailor would listen to nothing of this, and he would give the engineer no peace till he promised to satisfy his desire.
"That's right, that's right," returned the sailor, who was not pleased whenever he heard his chase made light of.
And the sailor, followed by Neb, entered the kitchen, where they were soon absorbed in their culinary labors.
"The matter? the matter is that I have just broken a tooth!" replied the sailor.
"No! a hundred times no! a thousand times no!" cried the sailor, springing up from the table.
"Such is my advice," replied Cyrus Harding, "for it is to be feared that Malay pirates have landed on the island!""Captain," asked the sailor, "would it not be a good plan, before setting out, to build a canoe in which we could either ascend the river, or, if we liked, coast round the inland?
"Yes, a real boat," replied the sailor; "but we do not want one for a sea voyage, and in five days at the most, I will undertake to construct a canoe fit to navigate the Mercy."
While the sailor, seconded by the engineer, thus occupied himself without losing an hour, Gideon Spilett and Herbert were not idle.
Arrived at the dockyard, where the engineer and the sailor were working together, Herbert recounted what had happened.
"Oh! the stupids!" cried the sailor, "to have let at least fifty meals escape!""But, Pencroft," replied Neb, "it wasn't our fault that the beast got away; as I tell you, we had turned it over on its back!""Then you didn't turn it over enough!" returned the obstinate sailor.
"That is precisely what I had the honor of telling you before!" returned the sailor.
"Hurrah!" cried the sailor, who did not disdain to celebrate thus his own triumph.
"That's nothing, Neb," replied the sailor; "the wood will get seasoned.
The sailor first crossed the channel, and steered close to the southern point of the islet.
"Barrels, barrels, which perhaps are full," replied the sailor.
Well, perhaps a stone--"And the sailor, raising a heavy block, was about to break in one of the sides of the chest, when the engineer arrested his hand.
"You are right, captain, and I was wrong, as usual," replied the sailor.
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