And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
I swear like a sailor.
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.