sailor-men

I found there all sorts of men, many of whom had once been as good as myself and just as blond-beastly; sailor-men, soldier-men, labor-men, all wrenched and distorted and twisted out of shape by toil and hardship and accident, and cast adrift by their masters like so many old horses. ...

How I Became a Socialist 2010

When he looked back now from his vantage-ground, the old world he had known, the world of land and sea and ships, of sailor-men and harpy-women, seemed a very small world; and yet it blended in with this new world and expanded.

Chapter 8 2010

In the end the sailor-men married girls of their own homeland and settled down to become exemplars of all the virtues for which the island was noted.

SAMUEL 2010

The lieutenant, in turn, who knew all the "rules and regulations" by heart, explained that the harbor police were not ferrymen, and that the police-boats had other functions to perform than that of transporting belated and penniless sailor-men to their ships.

In Yeddo Bay 2010

I found there all sorts of men, many of whom had once been as good as myself and just as blond-beastly; sailor-men, soldier-men, labor-men, all wrenched and distorted and twisted out of shape by toil and hardship and accident, and cast adrift by their masters like so many old horses.

HOW I BECAME A SOCIALIST 2010

Jacobsen, stupid Scandinavian sailor-men; Ditman Olansen, the crank-eyed Berserk; John Hackey and Arthur Deacon, respectively hoodlum and white slaver; Shorty, the mixed-breed clown; Guido Bombini, the

CHAPTER XLIII 2010

I know only that I reached the deck, in a blind whirl of fear and excitement, and the next thing I remember, I was among a crowd of shouting, half-mad sailor-men.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

And still all around me came crying of the lost sailor-men.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

Like the souls of old dead sailor-men as used to be 'er crew.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Various

Would mine hostess -- who has so lavishly fed three poor sailor-men -- like to go to a banquet in the palace of "El Dorado"?

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan