Example Sentences

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Biff watched Blount walk to the door with his rolling, sailorlike gait.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

To the inspiring strains of "In Her Hair She Wore a White Camellia," "Oh, Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out To-night?" and the "Mulligatawny Guards," the good work progressed with sailorlike speed and system.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd

Aye, and sailorlike they showed it by their reserve.

From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman

He was a wiry, sailorlike man, of middle age, with merry, black eyes which yet had a steely flash in them.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.

He seemed quite happy; and he was nice and sailorlike.

From Fanny's First Play by Shaw, Bernard