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Sentences starting with sailed

Sailed in the Rosetta. [5]
Sailed last night in the Flora, from Lyttelton. [5]
Sailed from Sydney for Ceylon in the P. & O. steamer 'Oceana'. [5]
Sailed from Honolulu.--From diary: Sept. 2. [5]

Sentences ending with sailed

This was the understanding you and I had the day I sailed. [5]
The report is that he got to the dock just as the ship sailed. [9]
November 26--3 P.M., sailed. [5]
Not, certainly, by repeating the word pleasure over and over again: not by describing the palaces at which she lunched and danced and dined, or the bright waters in which she bathed, or the yachts in which she sailed. [9]
St. Ouen's Bay, l'Etacq, Plemont, dropped behind them as they sailed. [11]
I don't really know anything about cattle, except what I was able to pick up in a week's apprenticeship over in Jersey just before we sailed. [5]
She had taken her passage for Europe, and was very anxious to let the flat before she sailed. [8]
I only saw her in the street, an hour before the ship sailed. [11]
Friday seemed the beginning of eternity; the day dragged through I know not how, and toward evening we climbed back to our little room, not daring to speak of what we knew in our hearts to be so,--that the Sprightly Bess had sailed. [9]
There was gun-drill and cutlass-drill every day, and, what was also singular, there was boat-drill twice a day, so that the crew of this man-of-war, as they saw Golden Gate ahead of them, were perhaps more expert at boat-drill than any that sailed. [11]

Short sentences using sailed

We sailed again, refreshed. [5]
He sailed under Paul Jones. [9]
Then we sailed for Boston. [11]
He sailed immediately. [5]

Sentences containing sailed two or more times

We sailed from Calcutta toward the end of March; stopped a day at Madras; two or three days in Ceylon; then sailed westward on a long flight for Mauritius. [5]

More example sentences with the word sailed in them

I knew that you had advertised a trip to Europe (why, the Lord only knows), so I went East and sailed for England on the Canadian Line. [9]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
Those illustrious adventurers who sailed in her landed on the Jersey flats, preferring a marshy ground, where they could drive piles and construct dykes. [4]
There are many who are willing to believe that in spite of my modest appearance--maybe because of it--I have sailed over in a galleon filled with gold. [9]
The Clemens party, which included Miss Clara Spaulding, of Elmira, sailed as planned, on the Holsatia, April 11, 1878. [5]
Here, as it were, round the bent and broken sides of a bowl, war raged, and the centre was like some caldron out of which imps of ships sprang and sailed to hand up fires of hell to the battalions on the ledges. [11]
In the harbour were the men-of-war of all nations, and Arab dhows sailed slowly in, laden with pilgrims for Mecca--masses of picturesque sloth and dirt--and disease also; for more than one vessel flew the yellow flag. [11]
But the Moslems were no less eager for the fray, and at the close of his council-of-war, and contrary to its decision, Kapudan Pacha sailed to meet the enemy. [10]
We tied the week's washing astern of our boat, and sailed a quarter of a mile, and the job was complete, all to the wringing out. [5]
Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. [5]
In the night we sailed by a most notable curiosity, and one we had been hearing a good deal about for a day or two, and were suffering to see. [5]
Beyond and below was the spring-house, and there was the place where the brook dived under the ruined wall,--where Dorothy had wound into her hair the lilies of the valley before she sailed for London. [9]
A cable inquiry was immediately sent, but the reply when it came was not satisfactory, and Mrs. Clemens and Clara sailed for America without further delay. [5]
They sailed from Vancouver August 23, 1895. [5]
She smiled a vacuous smile; she played "the lady" terribly, as, with a curious conception of dignity, she held her body stiff as a ramrod, and with a prim merci sailed into the street. [11]
They had passed us as we came down, for we had sailed inside some islands of the coast, getting shelter and better passage, and the fleet had, no doubt, passed outside. [11]
Unfortunately, I insisted upon my plan, and the next morning sailed in a pouring rain through a dense mist to the mouth of the Weser and out to sea. [10]
A dromedary flashing up the sands,--spray of the dry ocean sailed by the "ship of the desert. [6]
He had sailed two cruises as master's mate of the Cabot, and was then serving as master of the Trumbull, Captain Saltonstall. [9]
When I got to Victoria I wired for money and sailed to Japan; and then I went on to India and through the Suez, taking things easy. [9]
We got back to the schooner in good time, and then sailed down to Kau, where we disembarked and took final leave of the vessel. [5]
So we went to Procida, and from thence to Pozzuoli, where St. Paul landed after he sailed from Samos. [5]
So Launcelot sailed to his Duchy of Guienne with his following, and Gawaine soon followed with an army, and he beguiled Arthur to go with him. [5]
It was good to hear Dan and the doctor laugh--such natural and such enjoyable laughter had not been heard among our excursionists since our ship sailed away from America. [5]
Half a dozen times I have wished I had sailed long ago in some ship that wasn't going to keep me chained here to chafe for lagging ages while she got ready to go. [5]
And many a time they came back to me when the old man was laid away in the spot reserved for those who sailed the seas for Mr. Carvel. [9]
The lower down they sailed, the denser were the thickets of papyrus on the shore. [10]
A week later they sailed straight over them. [5]
That he visited them when he sailed along the coast is probable, though he never speaks of doing so. [4]
In a moment the vessel's nose was towards the bay, and she sailed in, dipping a shoulder to the sudden foam. [11]
Clouds scudded across the sky and their shadows sailed darkly down the sunny slope. [13]
The Victoire sailed the seas battle-hungry, and presently appeased her appetite among Dutch and Danish privateers. [11]
We sailed in the propeller Ajax, in the middle of winter. [5]
I sailed in the packet ship Philadelphia from New York for Portsmouth, where we arrived after a passage of twenty-four days. [6]
He sailed on the New Providence expedition under Commodore Hopkins as first lieutenant of the Alfred, thirty; and he soon discovered that, instead of gaining information, he was obliged to inform others. [9]
He was sailing the Maria that day as she will never be sailed again: her lee gunwale awash, and a wake like a surveyor's line behind her. [9]
We sailed by the hotel in the mellow glow of sunset, and came slashing down with the mad current into the narrow passage between the dikes. [5]
Perce Bay--that was the exact point for which Elie Mattingley and Carterette had sailed with Sebastian Alixandre. [11]
From the window-sill the dove, caught up on the wave of wind, sailed away down the widening glade. [11]
He sailed for the Chincha Islands in command of a guano ship. [5]
Iberville had mastered the chart before he sailed, and when they were well on their way he disclosed to the captain the object of their voyage. [11]
British cruisers sailed the Channel: now a squadron under Barrington, again under Bridport, hovered upon the coast, hoping that a French fleet might venture near. [11]
We sailed through the barren Archipelago, and into the narrow channel they sometimes call the Dardanelles and sometimes the Hellespont. [5]
After lingering till the 29th, without any suggestion of ascending the James, he sailed northward and made the lucky stroke of river exploration which immortalized him. [4]
We sailed on the 15th of July in the Norman, a beautiful ship, perfectly appointed. [5]
We sailed on the 12th of April, reaching New York on the 14th, as he had planned. [5]
In June of that year Gates sailed again, with six vessels, three hundred men, one hundred cows, besides other cattle, and provisions of all sorts. [4]
Bias could not tell what seas the Hydra had sailed, nor at what--usually desolate-shores she had touched. [10]
The meadows were sweet with the newly cut grass, the wind softly blew down the river, large white clouds sailed high overhead and cast shadows on the changing water; but to all these gentle influences the fish were insensible, and sulked in their cool retreats. [4]
The sea fairly swarmed with ships, some belonging to the royal fleet, some to curious Alexandrians, who had sailed out to take a survey. [10]
With this testimonial, Stobo sailed for New York, 24th April, 1760, to rejoin the army engaged in the invasion of Canada; here end the Memoirs. [11]
So the little steamer sailed, comforted by these remedies, through the strait of Safe Nervine, round the bluff of Safe Tonic, into the open bay of Safe Liver Cure. [4]
It offered a splendid, and at the same time a pleasing prospect to the ships which sailed by at its foot, for it stood, not a huge and solitary mass in the midst of the surrounding gardens, but in picturesque groups of various outline. [10]
But I am soberer, somehow a different American than he who sailed away in August. [9]
We sailed from Smyrna, in the wildest spirit of expectancy, for the chief feature, the grand goal of the expedition, was near at hand--we were approaching the Holy Land! [5]
Most bravely has she sailed o'er every sea, Withstood the storm-rack, spurned the sullen reef; Cherished her strength; and held her guerdon fief To him who saith, "My ship comes back to me! [11]
He, Wolf, had set off for Brussels with the grand prior that very day, and, as his ship sailed from Spain before any other, he had succeeded in being the first to bring this joyful news to the Netherlands and to her. [10]
They had neither seen nor heard aught concerning the two fleets, when a dainty galley, "the finest and fleetest that ever sailed in the sea"--it was probably the "Swallow," Antony's despatch-boat-had run into the snare. [10]
Suffice it to say that we sailed for a fortnight or so in the West India seas. [9]
We have not sailed, but three swims are equal to a sail, are they not? [5]
For days they sailed without seeing a single ship; then three showed upon the horizon and faded away. [11]
As he had sailed up and down the world, a hundred ports had offered him a hundred adventures, all light in the scales of purpose, but not all bad. [11]
One who has sailed the lakes well knows how rapidly they can be lashed to fury by a storm, and the wind was now spinning the tops of the waves into a blinding spray. [9]
Before the fleet sailed into the Mareotic harbor of Alexandria, Pontius revealed his happy secret to the Emperor. [10]
The 22d he sailed in the Susan Constant for England, carrying specimens of the woods and minerals, and made the short passage of five weeks. [4]
A large ship sailed in the midst of this little fleet. [10]
The people who sailed in the Flora that night may forget some other things if they live a good while, but they will not live long, enough to forget that. [5]
They floated and sailed from the upper rivers to New Orleans, changed cargoes there, and were tediously warped and poled back by hand. [5]
Livy darling, we sailed from St. Pierre de Boef six hours ago, and are now approaching Tournon, where we shall not stop, but go on and make Valence, a City Of 25,000 people. [5]
The Emperor had sailed for Spain, Queen Mary had retired from the regency, and Duke Emanuel Philibert of Savoy had taken it in her place. [10]
Then the Alliance sailed away, leaving brave Mr. Caswell among the many Landais had murdered. [9]
The evening we sailed away from Gibraltar, that hard-featured rock was swimming in a creamy mist so rich, so soft, so enchantingly vague and dreamy, that even the Oracle, that serene, that inspired, that overpowering humbug, scorned the dinner gong and tarried to worship! [5]
But the Annapolis sailed away down the bay, and never another glimpse we caught of my lady. [9]
Whiff after whiff sailed airily back, and each one widened the breach. [5]
When the commander sailed again I managed to ship a spy with him. [5]
One day he read the announcement that Mrs. Rodney Henderson and Miss Tavish had sailed for Europe. [4]
And so he put his affairs in order, and went around to all his friends and bade them good-bye, and sailed in the leper ship to Molokai. [5]
Sailed, at 3 p.m., in the 'Mararoa'. [5]
We never packed our trunks but twice--when we sailed from New York, and when we returned to it. [5]
We just called on him as comfortably as if we had known him a century or so, and when we had finished our visit we variegated ourselves with selections from Russian costumes and sailed away again more picturesque than ever. [5]
Within two weeks of the time that Phips in his Bridgwater Merchant, manned by a full crew, twenty fighting men, and twelve guns, with Gering in command of the Swallow, a smaller ship, got away to the south, Iberville also sailed in the same direction. [11]
Towards the end of May, 1609, there sailed from England nine ships and five hundred people, under the command of Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, and Captain Newport. [4]
On the 16th of June they discovered the River Patowomek (Potomac), seven miles broad at the mouth, up which they sailed thirty miles before they encountered any inhabitants. [4]
It stood here, of course, a giant, when Columbus sailed from Spain, and perhaps some sentimental traveler will attach the name of Columbus to it. [4]
On the 18th of August he entered the Capes of Virginia, and sailed a little way up the Bay. [4]
Three days later, October 1873, Clemens, with his little party, sailed for home. [5]
However, when I observed that the other gondolas had sailed away, and my gondolier was preparing to go overboard, I stopped. [5]
Accordingly a large number of volunteers were equipped and had actually embarked at Trieste, when a dispatch from Seward arrived, instructing the American Minister to give notice to the Austrian Government that if the troops sailed for Mexico he was to leave Vienna at once. [6]
After a restless night, we sailed away in the hot dawn of a Wednesday. [9]
We sailed for New Zealand October 30. [5]
They sailed for New York October 6th, and something more than a week later America gave them a royal welcome. [5]
He sailed away, my mother told my grandfather all, and he brought her home here. [11]
I've brought a mutinous ship out of mutiny, sailed her down the seas for many weeks, disciplined her, drilled her, trained her, fought her; helped to give the admiral of the West Indian squadron his victory. [11]
They waited till morning and sailed cautiously in to face disappointment. [11]
But"--and here the man drew himself up with a flush--"but there's none of us that wouldn't fight to the last gasp of breath for the navy that since the days of Elizabeth has sailed at the head of all the world. [11]
On Wednesday we looked for a reply from Bristol, if not for the appearance of Bell himself, and when neither came apprehension seized us lest he had already sailed for Maryland. [9]
She would not let her go, and the packet sailed without her. [9]
When Mark Antony left you, he sailed with the ships which joined him for Paraetonium. [10]
We sailed at last; and so ended a snail-paced march across the continent, which had lasted forty days. [5]
I have sailed larger yachts than this time and again on the coast, at--" here he swallowed a portion of a wave and was mercifully prevented from being specific. [9]

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