Pale cows watched the sailors pass and dogs barked frantically, waking the homeless poor who huddled between the ditches and the house walls.
The sailors passed us, or toiled close to us, with lowered eyes.
Just at that moment a sailor, who had mounted to the main-top to do something to the rigging, passed close be- hind me.
Some sailors were passing a hose down through the air lock, and from below there issued a stream of vile workmanlike cursing.
They came alongside a dock, but the ship stood off from it a good ten feet as the sailors passed lines back and forth.
They had already been on the pier when Anna's boat drew up, and their presence had almost been enough to cause the sailors to pass by entirely.
Each year, only about 200 sailors pass the training program; the dropout rate is around 70 percent, and the motto is, "The only easy day was yesterday."
A sailor passed Bailey the Mark 22 and its magazines.
Onshore, Holloway was waving a black Team New Zealand sign as the sailors passed.
The sailor grinned and passed him a fragment of sea biscuit.