And it was only John Barleycorn that made possible that long afternoon with the old sea-dog. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When, in that first Kydd novel, a crusty old sea-dog tells our protagonist: "I can see a fine future for you in the King's service—mark my words," we are duly warned, almost threatened, that we're in for a long voyage. ❋ Steve Donoghue (2011)
But I know Mr. Pike now -- the stubborn, wonderful old sea-dog. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Von had been in the army, and Dad was an old sea-dog, and they were both stern disciplinarians; only the two girls had no mother, and neither had I, and they were two men after all. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A corrective to that is supplied by Tuck's eye-popping turn as a boy who regrets asking "What happens when sailors die?" of a salty old sea-dog. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sniffing the keen salt air like a young sea-dog, he stripped and plunged into the breakers, and dived, and rolled, and tossed about the foam with stalwart arms, till he heard himself hailed from off the shore, and looking up, saw standing on the top of the rampart the tall figure of his cousin Eustace. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Ah! thou hast the palabras, and the knee, and the cap, and the quip, and the innuendo, and the true town fashion of it all — no old tarry-breeks of a sea-dog, like thy dad! ❋ Unknown (2007)
And if John Hawkins did as much for a Spanish fleet in time of peace, there is more than one old sea-dog in Appledore who will do as much for a single ship in time of war, if he can find even an iron pot to burn powder withal. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But her destiny in the rough hands of the old sea-dog, acting under unreasoning impulses of the heart, took a strange and to her a terrible shape. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Meanwhile, the adventures of Tintin, the boy reporter, a Belgian and eventually international institution since the 1920s, featured as a recurring character Captain Haddock, an alcoholic and irascible but good-hearted old sea-dog. ❋ Unknown (2004)
John Payne was born in 1842 of a Devonshire family, descended from that breezy old sea-dog, Sir John Hawkins. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He put whips and fetters into his voice, and was relieved when the old sea-dog snatched the locket from his hand and dashed back the way they had come. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1998)
If Spanish gold, the gold of King Philip's Americas, had to end up in the kitchen garden of a great house in England, it should more likely have come via the son of a Devon sea-dog than by the order of a nameless Russian bureaucrat in some dusty office in Dzerzhinsky Street. ❋ Price, Anthony (1976)
But Shane Boreland, clean-hearted adventurer, to whom the vagaries of a woman's mind were a closed book, had only laughed at her request, retorting that life aboard the _Hoonah_ had made her into a little sea-dog and a few weeks ashore with such a host as the White Chief would do her a world of good. ❋ Barrett Willoughby (N/A)
He was a sturdy, thick-set man of about fifty, whose grizzled hair, weather-beaten face, groggy nose, and whiskers, coming all round under his chin, gave him the air of old Benbow as he appears on the stage -- "a reg'lar old salt," "sea-dog," or whatever other name the popular taste loves to apply to the British tar. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)
I wish he'd let me ride on his back like a sea-dog - but he always slips away under me when I try. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1950)
[8] Confined for six weeks in the narrow prison of an eighteenth century trading vessel; unable to move save when lifted by unskilled hands; with food often intolerable to the healthiest appetite; with no relaxation save the company of the rough old sea-dog who commanded the _Queen of ❋ G. M. Godden (N/A)
"Not a bit of it," said the skipper bluntly, in sea-dog fashion. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In the winter season the length of the nights, the tempestuous weather and the cold told heavily against success, as did at all times that factor in the problem which one old sea-dog so picturesquely describes as "the room there is for missing you." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"No dreams of a sea-green palace, with an Undine in wavy hair, and a big brother with fan-coral plumes, who afterwards turned into a sea-dog?" ❋ Various (N/A)
