Use sailing in a sentence
Sentences starting with sailing
- Sailing by Croatan they went to Hatorask, where they descried a smoke in the place they had left the colony in 1587. [4]
Sentences ending with sailing
- By the end of June Mrs. Clemens was able to leave Riverdale, and she made the journey to Quarry Farm, Elmira, where they would remain until October, the month planned for their sailing. [5]
- But at noon it seemed to me as though some of the ships were sailing. [9]
Sentences containing sailing two or more times
- When the sun is in the west, vessels sailing in an easterly direction look bright or dark to one who observes them from the north or south, according to the tack they are sailing upon. [6]
More example sentences with the word sailing in them
- The President, the worthy rector, was good at plain sailing in the track of the common moralities and proprieties, but was liable to get muddled if anything came up requiring swift decision and off-hand speech. [6]
- They passed one winter yachting among the islands in the eastern Mediterranean; a part of another sailing from one tropical paradise to another in the West Indies. [4]
- There are plenty who pretend they care, but it's only because they're sailing with the wind, and with your even keel. [11]
- Do you remember when we were sailing round the pond, and the boat upset, and you pulled me senseless out of the water? [10]
- And while they were awaiting the sailing of the packet for France they came to our house--the old one in the Rue Bourbon that was burned. [9]
- Every time he went sailing over one of those abysses my breath stood still, and when he grabbed for the perch he was going for, I grabbed too, in sympathy. [5]
- Presently, sure enough, we went sailing by that plantation. [5]
- How often do we see birds which fly easily, gliding and sailing through the air obviously for pleasure? [1]
- The whole post was there, and there was such another whooping and shouting when the seventeen kids came flying down the turf and sailing over the hurdles--oh, beautiful to see! [5]
- And so it was all as plain sailing for Number Five and the young Tutor as it had been for Delilah and the young Doctor, was it? [6]
- Three of the verses I give here: "The 'Lovely Jane' went sailing down To anchor at the Spicy Isles; And the wind was fair as ever was blown, For the matter of a thousand miles. [11]
- Upon each side Venters saw the sage merged into a sailing, colorless wall. [13]
- We made him up a purse of fifty pounds,-- for the crew got to like him,--and left him at Port Darwin, sailing away again in a few days to another pearl-field farther east. [11]
- We are sailing, unexpectedly, to-morrow, there being a difficulty about a passage later. [9]
- Two hundred and twenty yards; and so weightless a toy--a mouse on the end of a bit of wire, in effect; and not sailing through the accommodating air, but encountering grass and sand and stuff at every jump. [5]
- As Smith had traveled all over Europe and sojourned in Morocco, besides sailing the high seas, since he visited Prince Sigismund in December, 1603, it was probably in the year 1605 that he reached England. [4]
- We are sailing to-morrow--there's no doubt about it this time. [11]
- I have only to send orders to the steersman to keep the crew together and everything in sailing order.--You are under no obligations to me; on the contrary it is I who have to thank you for the honor you will confer on me. [10]
- Clemens now hurried to New York in order to be there in good season for the sailing date, which was in June. [5]
- The next minute they were only a sailing puff of dust on the far desert. [5]
- Within an hour they saw the wild duck-again passing the crest of Guidon, and they watched it sailing down to the Post, Pierre idly fondling the gun, Macavoy half roused from his dreams. [11]
- I took care, therefore, to allow sufficient time in Liverpool, before sailing for home, to meet such friends, old and recent, as cared to make or renew acquaintance with me. [6]
- He showed us the whole thing, on a relief-map, and we could see our route, with all its elevations and depressions, its villages and its rivers, as clearly as if we were sailing over it in a balloon. [5]
- I returned in the packet ship Utica, sailing from Havre, and reaching New York after a passage of forty-two days. [6]
- So we had the odd spoon, and dropped it in her apron-pocket whilst she was a-giving us our sailing orders, and Jim got it all right, along with her shingle nail, before noon. [5]
- 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]
- They remained at the Hotel Grosvenor until their sailing date, October 24th. [5]
- From Liverpool, on the eve of sailing, he sent Doctor Brown a good-by word. [5]
- Then we struck the east end of the Desert at last, sailing on a northeast course. [5]
- This affair with the dompteuse was mad sailing, but the man might round-to suddenly and be no worse for the escapade. [11]
- The creatures of the deep which gather around sailing vessels are perhaps frightened off by the noise and stir of the steamship. [6]
- The annals of Tasmania, in whose shadow we were sailing, are lurid with that feature. [5]
- These clouds came slowly sailing from the distant horizon, like ships on an aerial voyage. [4]
- In 1614, Captain Sir Samuel Argal, sailing under a commission from Dale, governor of Virginia, visited the Dutch settlements on Hudson River, and demanded their submission to the English crown and Virginian dominion. [4]
- Presently he caught sight of a hawk sailing southward along the peaks of the white icebound mountains above, on which the sun shone with such sharp insistence, making sky and mountain of a piece in deep purity and serene stillness. [11]
- She watched the shadows lengthen down the slope; she felt the cool west wind sweeping by from the rear; and she wondered at low, yellow clouds sailing swiftly over her and beyond. [13]
- And when you see one of them come sailing around with one wing tipped up and t'other down, you make up your mind he is saying to himself: 'I wish Mary Ann in Arkansaw could see me now. [5]
- The Petrel was sailing stern first.... Would any of us, indeed, ever see home again? [9]
- The joy of sailing is born into some men, and those who are marked for the sea go down thither like the very streams, to be salted. [9]
- A schooner was sailing for Annapolis early the next morning, and I barely had time to get off my baggage and catch her. [9]
- A few ships rode at anchor in it--one of them a sailing vessel flying the American flag; and they said she came from Duluth! [5]
- But my blood ran faster at the thought of sailing under such a captain. [9]
- Large drops of rain soon began to fall, and, as the storm clouds came sailing onward, others supplied the void they left behind and spread over all the sky. [12]
- With ten days' provisions Captain Josiah Mitchell performed this memorable voyage of forty-three days and eight hours in an open boat, sailing four thousand miles in reality and thirty-three hundred and sixty by direct courses, and brought every man safe to land. [5]
- And there were picnics, and sailing parties, and dances galore, some of which I attended, but heard of more. [9]
- If we change our last simile to that very old and familiar one of a fleet leaving the harbor and sailing in company for some distant region, we can get what we want out of it. [6]
- No one, indeed, ought to sleep beyond breakfast-time while sailing along the southern coast of Prince Edward Island. [4]
- To-day, as every other day, they had to pack and unload; and though few ships were sailing, numbers were arriving from the south, and throwing out the landing-bridges which connected them with the shore. [10]
- There is only one free, independent, unsubsidized American ship sailing the foreign seas, and Duluth owns it. [5]
- You came down on us to take us--a quiet craft sailing in free waters. [11]
- Blifill says he offended a whole boatfull one day when they were sailing up the St. John's. [4]
- On the 19th of May he took passage for Bordeaux in a sailing vessel, which reached the mouth of the Garonne on the 25th of June. [4]
- I always thought of it as a fairy sort of ship, sailing on summer seas, freighted with youth and beauty, and carrying pleasure and good-fortune wherever it went. [4]
- When the hour of battle arrived, these two and the sailing master, and a number of raw midshipmen, were the only line-officers left, and two French officers of marines. [9]
- With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. [2]
- This, with what nourishment we can get from boot-legs and such chewable matter, we hope will enable us to weather it out till we get to the Sandwich Islands, or, sailing in the meantime in the track of vessels thither bound, be picked up. [5]
- Oh yes; one night I was sailing along, when I discovered a tremendous long row of blinking lights away on the horizon ahead. [5]
- But as we neared the reef the harbor appeared as quiet as a Sunday morning: a few Mackinaws were sailing hither and thither, and the Far Harbor and Beaverton boat was coming out. [9]
- I don't fool myself that it will be all plain sailing, that there won't be difficulties and discouragements. [9]
- By stretching from my window, through the bars of which I could get my head, but not my body, I noted a squadron sailing round the point of the Island of Orleans. [11]
- And so the morning of her sailing came, so full of sadness for me. [9]
- That was sailing, mind you--real seamanship, no bally nonsense; a fight every weather, interesting all round. [11]
- It has been like a splendid and richly-dressed trireme sailing, plague-stricken, into a harbor full of ships and boats. [10]
- Before it was light he sent off two trustworthy messengers to Doomiat, giving each of them a letter with instructions that a sailing vessel should be held in readiness for the fugitives. [10]
- In this same letter he exclaims: "With all my exertions, I seem always to keep about up to my chin in troubled water, while the world, I suppose, thinks I am sailing smoothly, with wind and tide in my favor. [4]
- They were lightly laughing over some pleasant matter; they heard his step, and glanced up just as he discovered them; the laugh died abruptly; and before Ed could speak they were off, and sailing over barrels and bales like hunted deer. [5]
- He took the keenest interest in the contest, and described to me the build and sailing qualities of the different yachts entered, and expressed his opinion as to which would win, and why. [4]
- The other ship is the Comet--she is right abreast three miles away, sailing on our course--both of us in a dead calm. [5]
- You came sailing into my heart this hour past on a strong wind, and you shall not slide out on an ebb-tide. [11]
- In the Circus, in the theatre, or sailing about the Bosphorus--they were to be seen everywhere together; and through the hideous, bloody struggle for the throne they lived in a Paradise of their own. [10]
- It sometimes came in sailing vessels from New England as ballast; and then, if there happened to be a man-of-war in port and balls and suppers raging by consequence, the ballast was worth six hundred dollars a ton, as is evidenced by reputable tradition. [5]
- No one knows how he finds out the sailing date, but no doubt he comes down to the dock every day and takes a look, and when he sees baggage and passengers flocking in, recognizes that it is time to get aboard. [5]
- Two poems preserve his memory, one that of Ralph Waldo, in which he addresses his memory,-- "Ah, brother of the brief but blazing star," the other his own "Last Farewell," written in 1832, whilst sailing out of Boston Harbor. [6]
- I lifted my head and saw an eagle sailing away to the snow-topped peak of Trinity, and then turned to watch the orioles in the trees. [11]
- The first officer has seen a man try to escape from his enemy by getting behind a tree; but the enemy sent his boomerang sailing into the sky far above and beyond the tree; then it turned, descended, and killed the man. [5]
- This was about half-past five A.M. After sailing in a state of high excitement for almost twenty minutes we made it out to be the chief mate's boat. [5]
- Before sailing, Howells had written: "Do you suppose you can do your share of the reading at Elmira, while you are writing at the Mississippi book? [5]
- But it's no good politics, sailing around like this with a person that's out of his head, and says he's going round the world and then drown us all. [5]
- The moon, almost full, was sailing in the sky, sometimes covered by dark clouds, sometimes leaving them behind. [10]
- From sovereign lands far off, two fleets were sailing hard to reach the wide basin before the walled city, the one to save, the other to destroy. [11]
- Pa was this day sailing through seas and by shores that had witnessed some of the most stirring and romantic events in the early history of our continent. [4]
- Twenty French frigates could do little harm to the island of Sark; a hundred men could keep off an army and navy there; but Jean knew that the Admiralty yacht Dorset was sailing at this moment within half a league of the Eperquerie. [11]
- It is a costly pleasure, and probably all the more enjoyed on that account, for if everybody had a yacht there would be no more feeling of distinction in sailing one than in going to any of the second-rate resorts on the coast. [4]
- Of course the case was plain sailing, and they ought to have had the verdict, but that lawyer of his handled it to the queen's taste, if I do say so. [9]
- They used to call it 'Steersman's Bend;' plain sailing and plenty of water in it, always; about the only place in the Upper River that a new cub was allowed to take a boat through, in low water. [5]
- He saw his brother's gondola sailing as peacefully and undisturbed from storm or accident as a swan in the moonlight, and the bitter thought passed through his mind, that Wendelin was the lucky one, and that he had been born to misfortune. [10]
- Drawing a deep breath, with an emotion of pleasure which she had not experienced for a long time, she gazed at the linden before the house steeped in silvery radiance, and upward to the pure disk of the full moon sailing in the cloudless sky. [10]
- I knew from books what a speck it is in the universe, but nothing ever brought the fact home like the sight of the sister planet sailing across the sun's disk, about large enough for a buckshot, not large enough for a full-sized bullet. [6]
- Meanwhile, from far beyond that yellow lane of light running out from Golden Gate, there came a vessel, sailing straight for harbour. [11]
- Gold--that was a better game than wine and brandy, and for once her father would be on a cruise which would not be, as it were, sailing in forbidden waters. [11]
- A wind arose before we sighted Greensbury Point, and I saw a bark sailing in, but thought nothing of this until Mr. Carvel, who had been silent and preoccupied, called for his glass and swept her decks. [9]
- On the night before sailing he sent Howells a good-by word. [5]
- The air had been cooled by the storm, a fresh north-wind was blowing, and, notwithstanding the early hour, there were a number of boats sailing over the deluged fields before the breeze. [10]
- There seemed to be one small hope, however: if we could get through the intricate and dangerous Hat Island crossing before night, we could venture the rest, for we would have plainer sailing and better water. [5]
- We must send at once, and ask Theopompus to hire a fast trireme for us, and have it put in sailing order at once. [10]
- His words flew as he repeated the events of the last few hours, and begged Theopompus to look out at once for a ship in sailing order, to convey himself and his friends from Egypt. [10]
- This would not answer at all; so we had to give up the novelty of sailing down the river on a farm. [5]
- It flashed through Angele's mind even as she answered the gurgling salutations of the triumvirate that they had been got together for no gentle summer sailing in the Channel. [11]
- Eight white men and three Indians watched the wild duck sailing away again from the bedroom window where Ida lay, to carry a word of comfort to Champak Hill. [11]
- It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars. [2]
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