"sailor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The eries on the bank redoubled, Imhotep waved a welcoming hand, the sailors were heaving and pulling on the halyards.
- In the second dog-watch the sailors come on deck, stripped, and heave buckets of water upon one another from overside.
- The ground dropped away below him with the magical elongation of the trunk, as if he were riding a sling beside some tall ship's mast and twenty hearty sailors were heaving energetically on the rope.
- The sailors clustered around the prow were heaving her seaward.
- On the 28th, she shifted to the Ammunition Depot at Fort Lafayette, and there took on board four Mark I depth charges, the most primitive type, which required no fixed launcher - only a strong sailor to heave it over the side.
- The anchor windlass rattled around as the sailors heaved furiously on it.
- Panic-stricken, the sailors heaved his corpse aside.
- Three sailors heaved the fat spherical creature out of the water, and dumped it dripping on the deck.
- A sailor coiling a line on the deck nearby heaved a loud sigh of relief.
- I escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; which I made of the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was cast ashore.
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