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Sentences starting with sails

Sails of purple embroidered silk bore the vessels over the smooth tide. [10]
Sails were torn, and the high bulkheads were broken; but, without firing a shot in reply, the Ariadne swung clear at last of the hostile ships and reached safe water. [11]
Sails through the air without the trouble of flying. [6]

Sentences ending with sails

On Saturdays the young men go out in their boats, and sometimes the water is fairly covered with the little sails. [5]
Dahabieh----A Nile houseboat with large lateen sails. [11]
Dahabeah----A Nile houseboat with large lateen sails. [11]
You were ill when it left the harbour, garlanded with flowers and adorned with purple sails. [10]
She is about twelve miles away, and so we cannot see her hull, but the sailors think it is the Comet because of some peculiarity about her fore-top-gallant sails. [5]
The flutes of the musicians, marking time for the rowers, echoed gaily up from the hold, and, obedient to quick words of command, the seamen were spreading the sails. [10]
He anxiously showed the birds to the old hero also, and the latter's only reply was, "Watch the helm and sails! [10]
There were no sounds save the musical beat of the water against the strakes, and the low hum of wind on the towering vibrant sails. [9]
Felucca----A small boat, propelled by oars or sails. [11]
The islands of Procida and Ischia continue and complete this side of the bay, which is about twenty miles long as the boat sails. [4]

Short sentences using sails

The steamer sails tomorrow. [4]

More example sentences with the word sails in them

The toy men-o'-war, with sails set, ranging in front of the fort. [9]
Rosy-fingered morn touched with magic colour the masts and scattered sails of the ships upon the great river, and spires and towers quivered with rainbow light. [11]
Many a time, with her mother, she had sat upon the shore at St. Aubin's Bay, and looked out where white sails fluttered like the wings of restless doves. [11]
There was not wind enough for sails, but there were chopping waves, and swell enough to toss us about, and to produce bright flashes of light far out at sea. [4]
There are others who exhibit those great qualities as greatly as he does, but only by intervaled distributions of rich moonlight, with stretches of veiled and dimmer landscape between; whereas Howells's moon sails cloudless skies all night and all the nights. [5]
Then the canister, which produced ghastly murder, chain-shot to bring down masts and spars, langrel to fire at masts and rigging, and the dismantling shot to tear off sails, were all made ready. [11]
On the following Wednesday, with her flag flying and her sails set, the Peggy Stewart was run ashore on Windmill Point. [9]
Presently a large vessel, with new sails, beautiful white hull, and gracious form, came slowly round a point. [11]
You have seen us go to sea, a cloud of sail--and the flag at the peak; and you see us now, chartless, adrift--derelicts; battered, water-logged, our sails a ruck of rags, our pride gone. [5]
With swelling sails, urged by the strong wind blowing from the southeast, its keel cut the rolling waves. [10]
The spray feathered up to her sails, the sun caught her on deck and beam; she was running dead for the needle of rock. [11]
He worked himself up slowly and gradually into a sort of frenzy, and got to thrashing around with his arms like the sails of a windmill. [5]
When you cast up a feather it sails away on the air and goes out of sight; then you throw up a clod and it doesn't. [5]
Her sails hung unfilled, her streamers were drooping, she had neither side-wheel nor stern-wheel; still she moved on, stately, in serene triumph, as if with her own life. [6]
On the short trip, the crests of the tossing waves sometimes shone with a flickering light, while elsewhere long shadows spread like dark sails over the sea. [10]
He sails up to you bearing your own flag, and when he gets aboard he shows the skull and cross-bones. [4]
Regaining the carriage, they drove out to the end, Agassiz's Point, where, when the mist lifted, they saw the sea all round dotted with sails, the irregular coasts and islands with headlands and lighthouses, all the picture still, land and water in a summer swoon. [4]
No home for these!--too well they knew The mitred king behind the throne; The sails were set, the pennons flew, And westward ho! [6]
I saw that these successive dwellers on the stream were busy in constructing and setting afloat vessels of various size and form and rig--arks, galleys, galleons, sloops, brigs, boats propelled by oars, by sails, by steam. [4]
One evening when the sails flapped idly and the blocks rattled, when they had been watching in silence the flaming orange of the sunset above the amethystine Camden hills, he spoke the words for which she had been waiting. [9]
Quickly battening down the prisoners, I had the sails spread, the windlass going, and the anchor apeak quickly, and we soon were moving down upon the schooner, which was now all confusion, commands ringing out on the quiet air. [11]
A poet, like the goose, sails without visible landmarks to unexplored regions of truth, which philosophy has yet to lay down on its atlas. [6]
An hour afterwards the Free-and-Easy was moving up stream with her splintered mast and ragged sails, and the Ninety-Nine was looking up and over towards the Bay of Belle Amour. [11]
Others danced on the flood, taking the sun on their sails, and went away with good promise of a long voyage. [4]
Perfect day for the expedition succeeds perfect day, boatload after boatload sails away from the little marina at the base of the cliff, which we follow with eves of desire, but--to-morrow will do as well. [4]
The Seigneur's words the day before had driven her back upon a tide of emotions which carried her far out upon that sea where reason and life's conventions are derelicts, where Love sails with reckless courage down the shoreless main. [11]
The sails flapped, the boat seemed to hover for a moment, and then a wave swept her towards the rocks. [11]
The skipper put the boat on the starboard tack, close-hauled and close-reefed the sails, keeping as near the wind as possible, with the hope of weathering the rocky point at the western extremity of the Bay des Trepasses. [11]
And gradually, castaway that she felt herself to be, she had adorned it lovingly, as one above whose horizon the sails of hope were not to rise; filled it with friends not chosen in a day, whose faithful ministrations were not to cease. [9]
He had fancied that he saw sails on the horizon at sunset, but the swiftest galley became a hedgehog when the wind blew against its prow, and even checked the oars. [10]
The enemy had tacked and was standing west, with ensign and jack and pennant flying, the level light washing his sails to the whiteness of paper. [9]
As the light struck them, the sails which enlivened the scene were either dark spots or shining silver sheets on the delicate blue. [4]
From where I stood, the two vessels seemed nothing but spars and sails, while their narrow decks, far below, slanting over by the force of the wind aloft, appeared hardly capable of supporting the great fabrics raised upon them. [5]
At the helm stands moral earnestness, which, however, does not exclude the joyous cheerfulness natural to our people; the sails will be trimmed by moderation, the noblest quality of the Greek nation. [10]
Yonder, as if slumbering under a blue veil, lay the Calabrian coast, while nearer and more distant, but always noiselessly, ships and boats, with gently swelling sails, glided over the water. [10]
And of course she sails in and goes the O'Shaughnessy about four hacks and an omnibus better. [5]
At last silken sails, chequered with purple and blue, appeared in sight. [10]
As the hawk sails without flapping his pinions, so you drift with the tide when you will, in the most luxurious form of locomotion indulged to an embodied spirit. [6]
A few lateen sails moved like pale, gigantic birds over the dark waters; but now from the north--and from the city--a larger mass came towards the palm-grove with bright, gleaming eyes of light. [10]
Boats' captains and sailors--were hurrying down to the shore of the Nile to avail themselves of the northeast breeze to travel southwards against the current, and sails were being hoisted and anchors heaved, to an accompaniment of loud singing. [10]
He would be quite capable of ordering a horse to be saddled, or the sails of a boat to be spread in order to pursue her--beyond the Cataract if necessary. [10]
Gold and ivory, purple sails, bronze and marble statues at the prow and stern, and in the little shrines on the after-deck, combined in a gorgeous display, made all the more brilliant by the low sun, which added vividness to every hue. [10]
Eastwardly also, the prospect was, in my earlier remembrance, widely open, and I have frequently seen the sunlit sails gliding along as if through the level fields, for no water was visible. [6]
The river consequently presents an animated appearance in the season, and the prettiest effects are produced by the white sails dipping about among the green islands. [4]
When the men presently raised their heads they would have roared a hallelujah if they had had a voice--the ship's sails lay wrinkled and flapping against her masts--she was going about! [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]
To the north, over the smooth pink water speckled with white sails, rose Captain Hill, in Duxbury, bearing the monument to Miles Standish. [4]
Pretty soon the other ship swept down upon us with all her sails set, and made a fine show in the luminous starlight. [5]
He tried at once to get in his sails, but the surf was running very strong, and presently a heavy sea broke clean over her. [11]
My feet were on the mountains, my hands were on the sails of great ships; I was a conqueror. [11]
Flags were hoisted on the brass-tipped masts in front of the pylon, and purple sails were spread to give shadow to the court. [10]
The skipper ran on deck, and by the aid of the men hauled out a couple of sails and dropped them over the bow. [4]
On both sides of the canyon the mountains rise wall-like, three thousand feet, and the long spiral of straggling huts down in its narrow bottom gets a kiss from the sun only once a day, when he sails over at noon. [5]
Off the island of Planoca it was overpowered and captured by a little picaroon, with lateen sails and a couple of guns, and a most villainous crew, in poverty-stricken garments, rusty cutlasses in their hands and stilettos and pistols stuck in their waistbands. [4]
It is not necessary to remember that it filled the silken sails of Cleopatra's galley. [4]
Behold, I build my nest in thy sails, excellency. [11]
Once launched upon my college days, Timmins went on with all sails spread. [4]
Long trains of many-colored sails swept over the rippling lake like flights of birds across a cornfield, and every inch of the shore was covered with stores or buildings. [10]
What says fishing- man: When sails flap, owner may whistle for cargo. [11]
The traveler who lodges near cannot sleep, but no more can the sailors, who steal away in the dawn, wafted by painted sails. [4]
Ever and anon, like a tiny silver cloud floating across the firmament, white sails glided by. [10]
It was a large and gorgeous barge of wood, polished all over and overlaid with gold, and its edge was decorated with glittering glass-beads, which imitated rubies and emeralds; the masts and yards were gilt, and purple sails floated from them. [10]
Irene and Mr. King strolled along one of the ridges, and sat down on a rock looking off upon the peaceful expanse, the silver lines of the curving shores, and the blue sea dotted with white sails. [4]
But the sea itself, untamed, restless, shining, dancing, raging, rolls in from the southward, tossing the white sails on its vast expanse, green, blue, leaden, white-capped, many-colored, never two minutes the same, sounding with its eternal voice I knew not what rebuke to man. [4]
No argument could induce him to leave the post he had thus heroically chosen, which was one of honor rather than utility, for the lake was as vacant of sails as the day that Father Marquette (or some one else) first beheld it. [9]
I have often, indeed, seen white sails climbing up there, and fishing-boats, at secure anchor I suppose, riding apparently like balloons in the hazy air. [4]
There were ships in the harbor, at Dover, but they were naked as to sails, and there was no sign of life about them. [5]
My arm is impotent; what worth to trim The bending sails! [11]
I am content if now and then a steersman may set his sails rightly by my indication; though after all, it is all the same to me. [10]
The Bithynian informed Hermon that kerchiefs were waving him a farewell from the trireme, that the sails had been unfurled, and the wind was driving the swift vessel before it like a swallow. [10]
Jonas himself trims her sails, and she sets off right gallantly across the shallows, heeling to the breeze for all the world like a real man-o'-war. [9]
Once, long afterward, he said: "Most authors give us glimpses of a radiant moon, but Howells's moon shines and sails all night long. [5]
Some deep ocean-current has been moving her on, strong, but silent,--yes, stronger than these noisy winds that puff our sails until they are swollen as the cheeks of jubilant cherubim. [6]
What charming gradations had this picture-gray sand, blue waves, a line of white sails against the pale blue sky! [4]
The saucy yawl had aboard Maitresse Aimable, Guida, and a lad to assist Jean in working the sails. [11]
Our commissariat was gone, or almost gone, we hadn't any masts or sails to speak of, and the cook informed us that we had but a few gallons of fresh water left; yet, strange to say, the gladiators remained to us. [11]
There is a French ship at the Terre aux Boeufs in the English Turn, which sails to-night. [9]
When he was free, he come to the captain of a ship that I know, the Free-and-Easy, that sails to Havre, and told him the story, asking for passage to Quebec. [11]
Our ship sails for Virginia in three days, and I must go. [11]
The happiest winds fill the sails of you and yours! [6]
Others, too, had fancied that they had seen sails, and Dion would gladly have gone out to sea to investigate, but he was entirely alone in a frail hired boat, and this would not have been permitted to pass beyond the harbour. [10]
Then straining my eyes through the mist, I made out two white blurs of sails on our starboard beam. [9]
And the silver embroidery on the blue sails! [10]
A cloud of dust concealed the King and his body-guard, the sails of the galley disappeared. [10]
The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. [4]
Whenever the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift, --no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course,--he steps on board, takes the helm, and steers straight for the maelstrom. [6]
I was, however, confronted with the task of refuting his arguments: but with exasperating ingenuity, he seemed to have taken the wind out of our sails. [9]
It was no chance that made these coasts the home of the kind old monarch Eolus, inventor of sails and storm-signals. [4]
The steamer I came here in sails tomorrow, and as soon as she is gone I shall sail for the other islands of the group and visit the great volcano--the grand wonder of the world. [5]
We met many big keel-boats on their way up, using sails, mule power, and profanity--a tedious and laborious business. [5]
Looking out from behind the foliage was a face, so dim that one moment it seemed not to be there, and then suddenly to flash in--as a picture from beyond sails, lightning-like, across the filmy eyes of the dying. [11]
Occasionally the mist became so thin that a long line of coast and a great breadth of sea were visible, with the white sails drifting. [4]
For nothing can be done; no cables from here, the Belle Sauvage gone, no vessels or sails for two weeks. [11]
And so 'twill be another year before you get a word from me; but I hope that when this letter comes you'll write one back to me by the ship that sails next summer from London. [11]
I had rather be a voyager that visits all the reefs and islands the creatures build, and sails over the seas where they have as yet built up nothing. [6]
Suddenly, glancing up at the dim cloud of sails above, I saw that we were aback and making sternway. [9]
To you they are mere air--or less; for the air is a tangible thing that can fill a ship's sails and drive it against the stream, whose varying nature can bring comfort or suffering to your body. [10]
Our feet slipped and slipped as we hove, and burning bits of sails and splinters dropping from aloft fell unheeded on our heads and shoulders. [9]
Our quiet burghers and farmers are in the position of river-boats blown from their moorings out upon a vast ocean, where such a typhoon is raging as no mariner who sails its waters ever before looked upon. [6]
Then came confusion and dismay: the flapping of the wet, half-lowered sails, and the whipping of the slack ropes, making all effort useless. [11]

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