Wilson attacks the critics as "drones and no bees, lubbers and no learners," but the fault he finds in these "croaking paddocks and manifest overweeners of themselves" is that they are "out of reason curious judges over the travail and painstaking of others" instead of being themselves producers.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
"Charts are all made by planet-lubbers.
"The World with a Thousand Moons"
Edmond Hamilton
And in a degree he was saved from the disgrace of being a landsman by the smell of tar and bloaters that heralded his coming, by the blue jersey and the brown homespun trousers which he wore all the week, and by the saving word which distinguished him from the poor inland lubbers who had no dealings with water at all.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman