Word: landsmen
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...first American to do so. The natural text for Hopper's city painting had been written by Melville in the first pages of Moby Dick: "Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries ... But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone...