sailorlike

And keep on rolling until Jan and the carpet are inside a thirty-foot blue sausage which, to sailorlike cries of “There she blows” and “Heave, lads, heave,” Mundy and a bunch of willing helpers manhandle onto the roof of the bus, then strap lengthwise down the rack with its tail drooping over the end.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

We could see neither guides nor houses, and it looked like a forlorn hope to try to find either, but, asking us to stay where we were until he came back, our friend disappeared; and some time afterwards he reappeared from some unknown place, accompanied by an intelligent sailorlike man whom he introduced to us as the guide.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

And although a Téméraire -- as a man who had served in her was always afterward called -- was now and then shown as an example of sailorlike smartness and activity, very few knew how dearly that one success had been purchased, nor by what terrible examples of agony and woe that solitary conversion was obtained.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

"Aye, aye, sir!" he returned in his sailorlike way; for in Bolderhead if you ask your direction of a man on the street he'll lay a course for you as though you were at sea.

Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers W. Bertram Foster

They were very much pleased with his bold, frank, sailorlike manner, and invited him to visit them, Allen at his home, "Mount Gallant," and Wyley at the

Memoirs of a southern woman "within the lines", Mary Polk Branch 1912

He seemed quite happy; and he was nice and sailorlike.

Fanny's First Play George Bernard Shaw 1903

The Garlies men swarmed up them and with sailorlike agility descended into the big courtyard of the ancient Cassillis townhouse.

Patsy 1887

Lespel says it is sailorlike to do something of this sort after

Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

Lespel says it is sailorlike to do something of this sort after a cruise.

Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

Lespel says it is sailorlike to do something of this sort after a cruise.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868