Ship-shape

"Ship-shape" in a Sentence (6 examples)

Things couldn't be more ship-shape.

I'll tidy the flat and get everything ship-shape.

SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.

[I]t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]

No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity.

Some of you have n't sense enough to put a blanket ship-shape over a sick man. There! Leave it alone! I can die anyhow!

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