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In his first public appearance at the China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Sir Andrew is opposed to an alien thing, an unnautical, ugly contraption: the airplane.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, a Sea Sled salesman, addressing an unnautical prospect, explained the mooring of the boat by remarking: "You just put a rope on here and tow her right into the garage."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the gloaming the side-lights were being put in place, and Gadabout turned a baleful green eye upon us, as though overhearing our talk of such unnautical things as gardens and heirlooms and ancestral halls.

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

The speaker, though apparently more at his ease at sea, was in dress and appearance fully as unnautical as Banks.

From The Crusade of the Excelsior by Harte, Bret