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A holiday boat excursion for two landlubberly married couples turns into a fascist parable in Way Upstream.

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After a slow, landlubberly beginning, the three of them, with Dan as first mate, set sail for the whaling grounds and a few stern lessons in character-building.

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The landlubberly FBI crew who manned it, however, promptly blew out one of its engines�and thereafter pretended to be in great fear of punishment from the all-powerful sheik.

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The WallyPower 70 may be the first motoryacht in its class to shelter the forward cockpit with a substantial bulwark: Think landlubberly friends and little children.

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In a good, old landlubberly manner we hitched Gadabout to a tree and waited to see if the rising tide would make a way for us.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.