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Sentences starting with sail

Sail in, Metropolis!--said that same young man John, by name. [6]

Sentences ending with sail

If he refuses, you can go in in spite of him, since you and Mr. Farrar are the only ones who can sail. [9]
Emerson was sixty-three years old, the year I have referred to as that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called "Terminus," beginning: "It is time to be old, To take in sail. [6]
Sometimes a favorable wind sprang up, and we hoisted the sail. [9]
Weathered grey cottages were scattered over the landscape, and dark copses of cedars, while oceanward the eye was caught by the gleam of a lighthouse or a lonely sail. [9]
She was making to the south-east under full sail. [11]
Perhaps that was the signal to set sail. [11]
At five in the morning, the bathers enter it, and remain until ten o'clock,--five hours, having breakfast served to them on the floating tables, "as they sail, as they sail. [4]
The fleet hasn't the food to sail. [11]
It was as the chill of the ice-mountain toward which the ship is steering under full sail. [6]
There was a spanking breeze in the west-northwest, and a clear sky, a day of days for a sail. [9]

Short sentences using sail

Richard, I sail to-morrow. [9]
At night we set sail. [5]
Take in more sail! [5]
Pleni sail. [11]

Sentences containing sail two or more times

But fortunately the ships do not all sail west, half of them sail east. [5]
My passage is paid, and if the ship sails, I sail in her--but I make no calculations, have bought no cigars, no sea-going clothing --have made no preparation whatever--shall not pack my trunk till the morning we sail. [5]
Why, it's like old times, to step right into the study, damp from the breakfast table, and sail right in and sail right on, the whole day long, without thought of running short of stuff or words. [5]
The fleet could not sail now if it wished; but one ship can sail, and it is ours. [11]

More example sentences with the word sail in them

However, I may yet change my mind and sail Saturday. [5]
He said he would sail his balloon around the globe just to show what he could do, and then he would sink it in the sea, and sink us all along with it, too. [5]
He, the Celebrity, would gladly sail the Maria over to Bear Island provided another man could be found to relieve him occasionally at the wheel, and the like. [9]
And it was wonderful to see what these new ingenuities did for a time, and how each generation was deceived into the belief that its products would sail on forever. [4]
But Bucklaw said, with great candour, that unfortunately he had to sail for Boston within thirty-six hours, to keep engagements with divers assignees for whom he had special cargo. [11]
A sloop yacht, with a ridiculously shortened sail, was coming in from the Narrows, scudding before the wind like a frightened bird. [9]
Dion had often wished to set sail with his wife for a great city in Syria or Greece, but fresh and mighty obstacles had deterred him. [10]
Then the constellations will be re-organized, and polished up, and re-named--the most of them "Victoria," I reckon, but this one will sail thereafter as the Southern Kite, or go out of business. [5]
I bring my wife and my little Babette; and that was how we sail back to the great gulf. [11]
Ordering the sailors who were preparing to accompany him to remain on shore, he stretched the sail with a practised hand, and ran out towards the mouth of the harbour. [10]
A fleet of white clouds, like ships pressed with sail, hurried across the sky as though racing for some determined port; and the shadows they cast along the hillsides accentuated the high brightness of the day, emphasized the vivid and hateful beauty of the landscape. [9]
In a little while he would sail, and the days were overfull. [5]
In April, 1579, when Gilbert took active steps under the charter of 1578, diplomatic difficulties arose, growing out of Elizabeth's policy with the Spaniards, and when Gilbert's ships were ready to sail he was stopped by an order from the council. [4]
When he got well he set sail for Jersey, was wrecked off the Ecrehos, and everybody knows the rest. [11]
For one thing, weather permitting, they would all breakfast at twelve on the yacht, and then sail about the harbor, and come home in the sunset. [4]
A week later we shall reach Wellington; talk there 3 nights, then sail back to Australia. [5]
The captain said we ought to shorten sail anyway, out of common prudence. [5]
I say if we escape, because, as we sail out, orders will be given for the other mutiny ships to attack us. [11]
From there I was to sail for Spain. [11]
The now-and-then schooner was to sail for San Francisco about nine; when I reached the dock she was free forward and was just casting off her stern-line. [5]
A heavy sea was running, the gale was blowing hard from the north-east, and under the close-hauled sail the Belle Suzanne was lying over dangerously. [11]
The Quaker City was not to sail until the 8th of June, but the Alta wished some preliminary letters from New York. [5]
Where in Jehoshaphat was I going to sail it if I ever got it made? [9]
But the Maria was hardly cast and under way before it became painfully apparent that the Celebrity was much better fitted to lead a cotillon than to sail a boat. [9]
And through the varying waste of elements There passed a sail, which caught the opposing wind, Triumphant, as an army in its tents Beholds the foe it, conquering, left behind. [11]
Leaving all the vague, waste, endless spaces of the washing desert, the ocean-steamer and the fishing-smack sail straight towards each other as if they ran in grooves ploughed for them in the waters from the beginning of creation! [6]
The fire flashes up; all the row of heads is lifted up simultaneously to watch it; showers of sparks sail aloft into the blue night; the vast vault of greenery is a fairy spectacle. [4]
Your sail was up, and you turned the lugger to the wind in as little time as could be, but the coast-guardsmen rode after you, calling you to give in. [11]
So we took up the anchor and moved outside, to lie a dozen hours or so, taking in supplies, and then sail for Constantinople. [5]
This group also--soldiers, travelling artisans, peasants, and tradesfolk with their wives, who, like most of those present, were waiting for the vessel which was to sail down the Main early the next morning--gazed toward the door. [10]
He proposed to travel after sunset, with a few faithful servants on swift horses as far as Keft, and from thence ride fast across the desert to the Red Sea, where they could take a Phoenician ship, and sail to Aila. [10]
They are to touch neither a sail nor a pump, but to be merely passengers--deadheads at that--to be carried snug and dry throughout the storm, and safely landed right side up. [7]
We sail hence tomorrow, perhaps, and my next letters will be mailed at Smyrna, in Syria. [5]
I would sail to-day if I had anybody to take charge of my family and help them through the difficult journeys commanded by the doctors. [5]
Mr. Rogers was to sail southward this morning--and here is this weather! [5]
It is pleasant to sail into the long and broad harbor of Pictou on a sunny day. [4]
We are booked to sail in the "Bermudian" April 23rd, but don't tell anybody, I don't want it known. [5]
I shall plan to sail for England a shade before the middle of June, so that I can have a few days in London before the 26th. [5]
The Cephalonia was to sail at half past six in the morning, and at that early hour a company of well-wishers was gathered on the wharf at East Boston to bid us good-by. [6]
We have had to run ashore for shelter every time it has rained heretofore, but Joseph has been putting in his odd time making a water-proof sun-bonnet for the boat, and now we sail along dry although we had many heavy showers this morning. [5]
She was well to leeward of us, and the Araminta bore up under all sail, keen for action. [11]
His plan was to fill a torpedo with Greek fire and poisonous and deadly missiles, attach it to a balloon, and then let it sail away over the hostile camp and explode at the right moment, when the time-fuse burned out. [5]
G. P. "Dost thou spread the sail, throw the spear, swing the axe, lay thy hand upon the plough, attend the furnace door, shepherd the sheep upon the hills, gather corn from the field, or smite the rock in the quarry? [11]
To look upon this picture, and sail upon this sea, they had forsaken home and its idols and journeyed thousands and thousands of miles, in weariness and tribulation. [5]
More speech like this followed, and amid it all, with the flower of the world beside me at this table, I remembered my mother's words before I bade her good-bye and set sail from Glasgow for Virginia. [11]
By the time they were ready to sail from Vancouver five thousand dollars had been remitted to Mr. Rogers against that day of settlement when the debts of Webster & Co. were to be paid. [5]
From that place there is no escape--the desert is as the sea, and upon that sea there is no ghiassa to sail to a farther shore. [11]
There is nothing there but the sun, an occasional sail, and quiet, petrified Capri, three miles distant across the strait. [4]
They had decked themselves with fresh, green vines twined about their necks and bosoms, and were now going to sail a little boat made of bark in the tiny, walled pool into which the spring flowed. [10]
Powhatan cut off their boats, and refused to trade, so that Captain West set sail for England. [4]
The sailors of the vessel fled, and alone De la Foret set sail for the Ecrehos. [11]
I sail for the States in the Opposition steamer of the 5th inst., positively and without reserve. [5]
I can sail the skies all my life if I want to, and steer where I please, though they laughed at that, and said I couldn't. [5]
I threw from the shallop into the stream enough wheat to lighten her, and now, well stored and trimmed, we pushed away upon our course, the Chevalier and his men rowing, while my men rested and tended the sail, which was now set. [11]
Tarboe was giving the sail full to the wind, and thinking how he would just be able to reach Angel Point and get his treasure housed before mass in the morning. [11]
He thought of the present, and he wrote: "Wave walls to seaward, Storm-clouds to leeward, Beaten and blown by the winds of the West; Sail we encumbered Past isles unnumbered, But never to greet the green island of Rest. [11]
I will ride the maid beside Till we come to the sea, Till my good ship receive my bride, And she sail far with me. [11]
We sail for the Holy Land June 8. [5]
I sail up the harbour at New York twenty years ago and see that Liberty shining in the sun, I think so, yes. [9]
This was in the early half of March; the Clemenses were to sail on the 11th of the following month. [5]
The sail up the breezy and sparkling river was a charming experience, and would have been satisfyingly sentimental and romantic but for the interruptions of the tug's pet parrot, whose tireless comments upon the scenery and the guests were always this- worldly, and often profane. [5]
In the meantime the American frigate 'Alliance' had brought Lafayette to France, and was added to the little squadron that was to sail with the 'Bon homme Richard'. [9]
Captain Jones was the admiration of all the young officers in the navy, and was immediately flooded with requests to sail with him. [9]
Papa has decided that we sail next week, on the Annapolis, for home. [9]
In the summer, that season of desolation for Honora, when George Hanbury and Algernon Cartwright and other young gentlemen were at the seashore learning to sail boats and to play tennis, Peter Erwin came to his own. [9]
Iberville was apprehensive that a fleet of the kind could only be hostile, for merchant-ships would hardly sail together so, and it was not possible that they were French. [11]
I could see that a body could sail pretty close to the wind, but he couldn't go in the wind's eye. [5]
They could not talk, the old sail flapped so furiously, even if the other noises would have allowed them. [5]
And I shall surely see you again," I said, trying to speak lightly; "and your mother, to whom you will present my respects, before I sail for America. [9]
In a calm summer morning, such as our party of pilgrims chose for an excursion to the Pier, there is no prettier sail in the world than that out of the harbor, by Conanicut Island and Beaver-tail Light. [4]
Our forts are strong from the Sault au Matelot round to Champigny's palace, the trenches and embankments are well ended, and if they give me but two days more I will hold the place against twice their thirty-four sail and twenty-five hundred men. [11]
So, Delicio shall still sail by the compass, and shall still compass all, and yet be compassed by none; for it is written, Who compasseth Delicio existeth not. [11]
The ship flew southward under a cloud of sail which needed no attention, no modifying or change of any kind, for days together. [5]
Before breakfast was set upon the table, Guida saw the Narcissus sail round Noirmont Point and disappear. [11]
The travelling scholars set off singing merrily; but the strolling musicians waited for the ship to sail down the Main, on whose voyage they could earn money and have plenty to drink. [10]
Guida loved the sea; and she could sail a boat, and knew the tides and currents of the south coast as well as most fishermen. [11]
All morning she sat behind Mr. Cooke, on the rise of the cabin, her back against the mast and her hair flying in the wind, and I, for one, was not sorry the Celebrity had given us this excuse for a sail. [9]
We have not sailed, but three swims are equal to a sail, are they not? [5]
So, easing the sail, we brought our shallop before the wind. [11]
Your mast and sail, however, must be ours; and for these I will pay. [11]
She soon shortened sail, and went so leisurely that presently our light barge drew alongside, and I perceived Mr. Zachariah Hood, a merchant of the town, returning from London, hanging over her rail. [9]
I had rasher sail with a whole brigade of patriarchs than suffer so. [5]
After an hour's sail they reached a beautifully-built and fast-sailing vessel, the Hygieia, which belonged to Kallias. [10]
We propose to sail the 11th of April. [5]
Finished studies and sail Saturday in Minnehaha. [5]
Yes, doctor, I sail on a wide sea of ignorance, but I have taken soundings of some of its shallows and some of its depths. [6]
Else, he must sail north between the Ecrehos and the Dirouilles, in the channel called Etoc, a tortuous and dangerous passage save in good weather, and then safe only to the mariner who knows the floor of that strait like his own hand. [11]
So they set sail in a steamer for America--and the third day out, when their sea-sickness called truce and permitted them to take their first meal at the public table, behold there sat the lawyer! [5]
But the schooners sail idly, and the fishing-boats that have put out from the marina float in the most dreamy manner. [4]
He had set sail from England in a trading schooner, and was to join Phips at Port de la Planta. [11]
He immediately set sail for New York, and next week he will secretly visit you, for love of the dead man, and to thank you and our dear avocat, together with all others who believed in and befriended his unfortunate kinsman. [11]
I meant to sail earlier, but waited to finish some studies of what are called Family Hotels. [5]
In peace and safety the three boarded the Honeyflower off the point called Verclut, and set sail for England, just seven hours after Michel de la Foret had gone his way upon the Channel, a prisoner. [11]
Then the--fore-topmast crosstrees reports a sail on the weather quarter, the Richard is brought around on the wind, and away we go after a brigantine, "flying like a snow laden with English bricks," as Midshipman Coram jokingly remarks. [9]
Years after a reporter called on Mr. Clemens and submitted the manuscript of the speech, which was as follows: Day after to-morrow I sail for England in a ship of this line, the Paris. [5]
Ships were constantly putting to sea from that port for Constantinople, and Chusar was enjoined to sail by the first that should be leaving. [10]
All sail was put on, they got away to meet the newcomers, and they were not long in finding these to be their quarry. [11]
It was his purpose to arm his sloop with Lieutenant Stevens and some English prisoners the night before she was to sail, and steal away with her down the river. [11]
But as the proud wind fills the sail, My love to yours shall reach, then one deep moan Of joy; and then our infinite Alone. [11]
Quiet night and pretty comfortable day, though our sail and block show signs of failing, and need taking down--which latter is something of a job, as it requires the climbing of the mast. [5]

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