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Updated: June 20, 2025
It must be like going into a barbarous country, where they speak a strange dialect, arid dress in strange clothes, and live in strange houses. For sailors have their own names, even for things that are familiar ashore; and if you call a thing by its shore name, you are laughed at for an ignoramus and a landlubber.
"To me a certain amount of fear seems justifiable in the landlubber, who doesn't know anything of nautical matters and hasn't the least notion of what is happening." "Why should they be told anything?" rejoined Wilhelm. "Even if matters are very bad, it is advisable to deceive them." "Well, then," said Hahlström, "deceive them.
The nautical accuracy of these tales of the sea could scarcely have been attained by a "landlubber". It has much practical significance, then, that Cooper chose material which he knew intimately and which gripped his own interest. His success came like Thackeray's and Stevenson's and Mark Twain's without his having to reach to the other side of the world after his material.
He knew as little about a ship as a landlubber might be supposed to know, and his companion saw at once that he would make a mess of the story, so he came to his rescue by informing the assembly that a fine vocalist at the other end of the room was going to sing, and asked that the story be deferred until after the song.
There were not enough deep-water sailors to man half the ships that were built in these few years, and the crimps and boarding-house runners decoyed or flung aboard on sailing day as many men as were demanded, and any drunken, broken landlubber was good enough to be shipped as an able seaman. They were things of rags and tatters their only luggage a bottle of whiskey.
I suppose it's because he's an old sea-dog and not a landlubber." Mr. Mott coughed. "I fancy he would have thought of it in good time." "Well, in case he doesn't think of it in time, you might suggest it to him, Mr. Mott." The result of this conversation was the formation of a party of explorers to ascend the mountain.
Then, before I could answer, he bent over quickly and laid his lips to my ear, whispering "Refuse it, boy, refuse it! It will be a narrow match enough between you with the cutlass, which was the weapon I stuck out for for your sake. But out in a trumpery rocking boat, with you a landlubber against a man that has been at sea these ten years, I would not give a farden for your life."
I heerd one o' your electrical fellers explaining to a landlubber t'other evenin' that electricity could only run along wires when the circuit was closed, by which he meant to say that it would fly from a battery and travel along a wire ever so far, if only that wire was to turn right round and run back to the same battery again.
Frank did not know what to make of this, and stepping up to the boatswain's mate, he inquired: "What is that man doing with that bundle of rope behind him?" "That ain't a bundle of rope, you landlubber," replied the mate; "that's a swab." "Well, what is he doing with it?" "The best way for you to learn would be for you to spill some of that water you have got in your kettle on the deck."
And while she was making her way thither, the captain had to amuse himself like any landlubber, contemplating the ferocious chase and laborious digestion of these monsters.
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