Sea Folk

Word SEA FOLK
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The word "sea-folk" in example sentences

Who of all the sea-folk had not heard the wild, bloody tales told of Conan, the wild rover who had once been a captain of the Barachan pirates, and one of the greatest scourges of the sea? ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

Presently, although no sound had been heard, she looked up, with that apparently intuitive sense of what is happening at sea, which sea-folk seem to possess, and perceived an orange-sailed fishing boat just rounding the headland and making for the open sea. ❋ S. Elizabeth Hall (N/A)

The war-gear of the sea-folk all gather'd together. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

On the other side of the stream the herald of the vikings (or pirates) stood, and with a loud voice gave the scornful message of the sea-folk to the ❋ Emily Hickey (N/A)

But Ruddy was bred of sea-folk who do not expect quick results. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

Never before had so many of the sea-folk been gathered together at one place, and the noise of their tails flapping through the water brought all the little fishes and great sea monsters out, eager to know what was happening. ❋ Henrietta Elizabeth (1920)

"This comes from Provence, too," she said in answer to my pleading, "and will show you that sea-folk can sometimes be merciful." ❋ Unknown (1912)

But to-day the indifferent attitude of the peasants made the sea-folk eye them with suppressed rage. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)

The jovial but conservative sea-folk never varied their utterance on those many solemn occasions when a foreigner, for the purpose of evaporating, paid in advance for the hire of a boat, or was supposed to have done so. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

Southerner; that men, refusing to believe what is improbable, reserve their credulity for what is utterly impossible; in brief, that the prosaic sea-folk of Nepenthe were like everybody else in possessing a grain of stupidity in their composition -- "which does not bring us much further," he would add .... ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

There was the love of a valley or a village, a site or a family; there were enthusiasms for a prince and his hereditary office; there were passions rooted in locality, special emotions about sea-folk or mountain-folk; there were historic memories of a cause or an alliance; there was, more than all, the tremendous test of religion. ❋ Unknown (1905)

“Fetch down the woman,” ordered Hasdrubal; in the mongrel Greek current amongst Mediterranean sea-folk. ❋ William Stearns Davis (1903)

The child of Finnish sea-folk who had drifted to Brest and died there, she had been adopted by an old Breton sea-dog and his wife. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

That is how it is, "she explained," that you do not oftener see us sea-folk. ❋ Mabel Quiller-Couch (1895)

But besides the sea-folk of the ship-shires King Orry remembered the Church. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

The Manx people being sea-folk, living by the sea, a race of fishermen and sea-rovers, he divided the island into six ship-shires, now called Sheadings. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

Yea, yea! puir Tammy and his pate-keschie does mair for ill-luckit, wandering sea-folk than does the muckle kirk and the peerie [3] queen pit together. ❋ Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby (1891)

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