Crossword-Solution: SHIPOWNER 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

The landlord has long shaken his head over the manufacturer; those who do business on land have lost all trust in the virtues of the shipowner; the professions look askance upon the retail traders and have even started their co-operative stores to ruin them; and from out the smoke-wreaths of Birmingham a finger has begun to write upon the wall the condemnation of the landlord.

Sterne,” he said violently, “let me tell you--as a shipowner--that you are no better than a confounded fool.” VII Sterne went down smirking and apparently not at all disconcerted, but the engineer Massy remained on the bridge, moving about with uneasy self-assertion.

And now that he had risen to be a shipowner they were still a plague to him: he had absolutely to pay away precious money to the conceited useless loafers:--As if a fully qualified engineer--who was the owner as well--were not fit to be trusted with the whole charge of a ship.

When thinking of his rise in the world--commander of ships, then shipowner, then a man of much capital, respected wherever he went, Lingard in a word, the Rajah Laut--he was amazed and awed by his fate, that seemed to his ill-informed mind the most wondrous known in the annals of men.

Thence we sailed against the Spaniard with his hoards of plate and gold, Which he wrung with cruel tortures from Indian folk of old; Likewise the merchant captains, with hearts as hard as stone, Who flog men and keel-haul them, and starve them to the bone." The buccaneer is "a gallant sailor," according to Kingsley's poem--a Robin Hood of the waters, who preys only on the wicked rich, or the cruel and Popish Spaniard, and the extortionate shipowner.