 | 1832 - 598 str.
...a conversation with him relative to my profession, and asked him whether it was not very ditricult to learn. ' Larn,' cried the sailor, interrupting...difficult for such chaps as me before the mast to Iam, but you, I presume, is a reefer, and they an't got much to larn, 'cause why ? they pipeclays their... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1842 - 490 str.
...saying a word. I commenced a conversation with him relative to my profession, and asked him whether it was not very difficult to learn. " Larn," cried the...weekly accounts , and walks up and down with their bands in their pockets. You must larn to chaw baccy , drink grog, and call the cat a beggar, and then... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1895 - 402 str.
...saying a word. I commenced a conversation with him relative to my profession, and asked him whether it was not very difficult to learn. " ' Larn,' cried...to larn, but you, I presume, is a reefer, and they a' n't got much to larn, 'cause why, they pipeclays their weekly accounts, and walks up and down with... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1896 - 580 str.
...saying a word. I commenced a conversation with him relative to my profession, and asked him whether it was not very difficult to learn. " Larn," cried the...difficult for such chaps as me before the mast to larn 5 but you, I presume, is a reefer, and they an't got much to larn, 'cause why, they pipe-clays their... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1896 - 478 str.
...saying a word. I commenced a conversation with him relative to my profession, and asked him whether it was not very difficult to learn. "Larn," cried the...difficult for such chaps as me before the mast to Jam ; but you, I presume, is a reefer, and they an't got much to larn, 'cause why, they pipe-clays... | |
 | Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - 1912 - 440 str.
...topsy-turvy ? — THMJ [The passage in " Peter Simple," chap, ii., is : — " Larn, cried the sailor. No ; it may be difficult for such chaps as me before...walks up and down with their hands in their pockets." Perhaps " to pipe-clay " in this sense was borrowed from the Marines, and meant " to make fit for muster."... | |
 | John Davis, John Moore - 1928 - 306 str.
...their collars. In Marryafs Peter Simple, chap, ii, the drunken sailor on the coach says to Peter : "but you, I presume, is a reefer, and they an't got...walks up and down with their hands in their pockets" ; and in chap. Hi Peter is informed by other middies that his captain gave the midshipmen four dozen... | |
 | Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - 1912 - 440 str.
...topsy-turvy ? — THMJ [The passage in " Peter Simple," chap, ii., is : — " Larn, cried the sailor. No ; it may be difficult for such chaps as me before the mast to larn ; but yon, I presume, is a reefer, and they a'n't got much to larn, 'cause why, they pipeclays their weekly... | |
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I presume, is a reefer, and they an't got much to larn, 'cause why, they pipeclays their weekly accounts, and walks up and down with their hands in their pockets. You must larn to chaw baccy, drink grog, and call the cat a beggar, and then you knows all... 