What is "seafarer"

Usage examples of "seafarer".

Since my seafarer mask had so affrighted her, I slipped that off, too.

Madoc, long a sailor of all the known seas, had an uncanny sense for landfalls, and he believed almost without doubt that the continent of legends, called larghal, known to Plutarch as Eperios, known to the ancient African seafarers as Asqa Samal, lay ahead surely just under the horizon.

As seafarers and spacefarers had for thousands of years before the two of us, we both knew the ship we were on meant our very lives.

The extensive trade networks which distributed goods over long distances were either maintained as the linking of innumerable short-distance contacts between neighbours, or by the few communities which were travellers and seafarers, such as the Trobriand Islanders, famous for the Kula ring network of exchange.

It all went back, Jim knew, to something the dragons had always considered an insult: the fact that the early Vikings and other Scandinavian seafarers had used to take down the dragon-heads of their ships when they came into shore, because they thought the sight of the dragon heads would infuriate the trolls of the land.

Wego seafarers took chaplains along much as they carried pickles: just in case.

The Ocalidad Mountain Range that guarded the northern coasts of the forestland now called Wollendan had been infamous for its bandits long before the blond seafarers of the coast migrated through its passes to carve out cities from the great forests of the south.

Beneath, round the rude table, had sat fifty and more shaggy seafarers, each one entering the guarded door with the password for the night.

He had heard tales about such places from boastful old seafarers, but he had never expected to wind up in one on his maiden voyage.

All the seafarers stood transfixed with horror as the dawn breeze carried off the dust.

Clearly, the Pannion Domin was once a Genostel colonythe Genostelians were distant seafarers, my dear.

And, since all the fleet-clans denied the sneak-and-strike, kill-and-destroy tactics which had finished those Rover holdings, the seafarers were divided in their opinion as to whether the murderous raids were the work of Wreckers suddenly acting out of character and taking to the sea to bring war back to their enemies, or whether there was a rogue fleet moving against their own kind for some purpose no Rover could yet guess.

One prong of it became the Polynesians, who populated the most remote islands of the Pacific and were the greatest seafarers among Neolithic peoples.

Then he arose quickly, like a seafarer who all at once seeth the land.

There was the patience of the cold blue North in these seafarers - a lasting determination that would keep them steadfast to the bitter end, once their face was set toward a definite goal.