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"Thanks, Beth." He choked out the words, for as he looked down he saw the sign of tears in her eyes. "I've been cruising round nigh onto three days, and that's a purty long spell for the land-lubber I'm getting to be." "Your return was as sudden as your departure, wasn't it?" "Sudden? What do you mean by that?" "Just what I say. I was looking for the Jennie P. to come into the harbor.
He joins his different items, it is true, but it is impossible to avoid knowing where one leaves off and the next begins. The play opens with the raging tempest on a rocky coast; the ship of one Daland is driven there, and Daland goes ashore to see if there is any likelihood of the storm ceasing a proceeding at which any land-lubber, not to mention experienced tars, might well laugh.
It signifies a skulk, a shirk, one who is always trying to get clear of work, and is out of the way, or hanging back, when duty is to be done. ``Marine'' is the term applied more particularly to a man who is ignorant and clumsy about seaman's work, a greenhorn, a land-lubber.
Kinraid groaned with impatience at seeing one, free to move with quick decision, so slow and dilatory. 'Come on then, cried the sailors, 'or we'll take you too on board, and run you up and down the main-mast a few times. Nothing like life aboard ship for quickening a land-lubber. 'Yo'd better take him and leave me, said Kinraid, grimly.
The "Connaught" was done for; that much was obvious to the veriest land-lubber. And the second torpedo could have but one purpose the wanton destruction of so many more helpless women. Besides, it revolted his sense of sport; it was like blowing a sitting bird to pieces with a shot gun. . . .
With a grin, he said it was a present from Wilson: it was all we were to get that day. A great cry was now raised; and well was it for the land-lubber that lie had a pair of legs, and the men could not use theirs. One and all, we resolved not to touch the bread, come what come might; and so we told the natives.
"Did you catch any waleths?" inquired Pip. "What did the mermaids say to you?" asked the governor. "It is the last of your going to sea, Wort. You will have to be a land-lubber," said Sid. This last remark touched Wort. "No, sir! See if I don't go to sea." And go he did.
"Ah! young massa, I tinks you hab de right sort ob spirit; you's born to be no land-lubber; but it my 'pinion you had better stay wid good, kind missus and de Sea-flower a while longer; you not find a better berth, I'm tinkin'."
Can't you see, you land-lubber, that that's the Stars and Stripes upside down? `Why, so it is, says Andy, with a couple of reefs in the joyfulness of his voice. An' Tom he began to growl as if somebody had cheated him out of half a year's wages. "The flag that we saw was on the hull of a steamer that had been driftin' down on us while we was sittin' under our canvas.
Kinraid groaned with impatience at seeing one, free to move with quick decision, so slow and dilatory. 'Come on then, cried the sailors, 'or we'll take you too on board, and run you up and down the main-mast a few times. Nothing like life aboard ship for quickening a land-lubber. 'Yo'd better take him and leave me, said Kinraid, grimly.
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