lubberly

He'd worn round in the most lubberly way, with some evidence of panic on his deck.

Many of the ships, it was obvious even at this distance, were being handled in a lubberly fashion.

When he swam, his lubberly motion became suddenly graceful.

Its topsails were drawn up, albeit in a laggardly and lubberly fashion.

Manthar, my good lubberly apprentice, I would have you build a fire of driftwood on the beach.

There were the fifty captured galleys straggling across the river in the most lubberly fashion.

Nicholas and I had caught the spirit of the crazy craft, and we handled her in most lubberly fashion.

No more being tied to a lubberly parcel of sneaking rogues, merchants creeping up and down the sea.

He began, straight off, in the most innocently artful, and transparent, and lubberly way, to lead up to the subject of agriculture.

In addition to the period language, O'Brian is adept at using naval jargon with little or no translation for the "lubberly" reader.

The clothes had probably belonged to a somewhat lubberly boy of fifteen; and they hung about me like a sack, and cruelly hampered my movements.

Inside the hour the ship was over on her beam ends, the lubberly cowards climbing up her side and hanging on in the rigging.

I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page, and she's a great lubberly boy.

How perilous for actors and viewers to navigate a lubberly script that steers a course of cliche through a sea of implausibility!

But a fouled anchor-one with the cable twisted round the shank-was hardly suitable; in fact it would be hard to think of a more lubberly symbol.

At that moment Southwick turned to Ramage, gave a prodigious sniff and commented: "They're a lubberly lot, these Frogs."

Bag of reeds here, sir, lanyard there, sir, and it's best to fire on the uproll if you don't want to make us look like lubberly fools.

Unlikely to be Swedish and definitely not Russian - both because few were still at sea and because they were handled in an unbelievably lubberly way.

He could see why it was operating in the Gulf One look at real blue water would probably have frightened the clumsy, high-sided, lubberly joke's crew to death.

They bristle before him and after, They flutter above and below, Shrill shriekings of lubberly laughter, Weird wailings of woe!

All around them boats full of laughing women were being rowed along in the most lubberly way, with much screeching and derisive laughter at what Harry surmised were the physical shortcomings of the Sw flsure's crew.

His frantic and lubberly 'prentice-work found but a poor market for itself when pitted against an arm which had been trained by the first masters of Europe in single-stick, quarter-staff, and every art and trick of swordsmanship.

He would have to find a few good swordsmen to guard his back and the fortune he bore on it, but the last thing he would choose on a quest would be to have a lubberly adolescent underfoot.

From the wharf at Selby's we watched with careless interest the lubberly manoeuvre performed of bringing the yacht to anchor, and the equally lubberly manoeuvre of sending the small boat ashore.

There had been scores of occasions when he had seen a crowd of lubberly volunteers or newly pressed men being shown how to do various tasks on board a man-o'-war, and it had taken weeks for them to get into the swing of it all.

The streets are full of the Highland fishers, lubberly, stupid, inconceivably lazy and heavy to move.

At the horizon he noted a ship which under the lens proved to be that lubberly little cog he had evaded several days before.

'Lubberly crowd,' Jackson whispered.