nauticalness

Example Sentences

• "However, Dinky did beautifully while I was being demonstrated to, and when he had made a skillful landing and getaway I turned her prow (that sounds much more nautical than bow, and much bigger, too, don’t you think?) towards the upper reaches (more nauticalness, d’y see?) of the river and chugged grandly away from that landing."
• "THE sailors’ inn of popular fancy is—as fanciful things have, fortunately perhaps, so often a way of being—very far removed from the sailors’ inn of sober actuality. It is, to begin with, of an incredible, nay, an impossible, nauticalness; so that, should a landsman venture his nose within it, he might almost be excused for feeling a little seasick."
• "Little coats that carry a suggestion of nauticalness in their trimmings. Of fine cheviot serge in blue, trimmed with brass button and emblems in embroidery work on the sleeve."
• "Nauticalness virtually overflows from this coffee shop–styled seafood house, from its steamy interior to its patio, where the smell of the salt air goes perfectly with the fresh seafood chowder."
• "And somewhere, somewhere in all this nauticalness and officialese and professionalismo there reposed, Hradec was almost sure, the walkie-talkie."
• "A gold tie clip was made in the shape of a sailboat. The object was a jaunty nauticalness, I guess, but it made me seasick."