sailorly

Example Sentences

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I glance down to see that my clothes look sailorly as well, although just as worn and frayed as before.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Mate McGaw was a sailorly man and understood how to fit one fact with another.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman

Jodoque, prompted to sudden hospitality, had offered the sailorly personage a seat at his marriage dinner-table, and he, with a great laugh, accepted the invitation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various

"I'd like to take up that loan and save the rest of the year's interest, Deacon Rowley," stated Mayo, with sailorly bluntness.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman

A burly individual in sailorly garb came down the beach from Maru's house to meet them.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John