Sailed

Examples

• We parted: the next day--he sailed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He founded a settlement in the Rio de Oro (on Kerne or Herne Island), and sailed on past the Senegal river. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So I dressed up as Mrs. Malaprop, and sailed in with a mask on. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He relates, that a New-England sloop, trading there in 1752, left their second mate, William Murray, sick on shore, and sailed without him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We have not sailed, but three swims are equal to a sail, are they not? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He sailed to the attack in a double line about sundown, putting the French between two fires. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were beyond the hearing of the table, Mrs Dengelton had sailed on ahead to the drawing-room, so they were virtually alone. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The hat sailed far out into space and we could see it smaller and smaller, the patent leather shining in the clear air, sailing down to the river. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Another packet arrived; she too was detained, and before we sailed a fourth was expected. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We sailed through the barren Archipelago, and into the narrow channel they sometimes call the Dardanelles and sometimes the Hellespont. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He sailed from the Isthmus of Panama in 1530, with an expedition of a hundred and sixty-eight Spaniards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon to Zanzibar, and thence, with an Arab pilot, he struck across the Indian Ocean to Calicut in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I held the oars up and we sailed with them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• However, when I observed that the other gondolas had sailed away, and my gondolier was preparing to go overboard, I stopped. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Inquiries made at Plymouth proved that they had sailed, forty-eight hours previously, in the BEWLEY CASTLE, East Indiaman, bound direct to Bombay. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In sailed her three daughters, a showy trio, being all three well-grown, and more or less handsome. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For nine years I had sailed and fought with the navy of Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• That done, he sailed for England, with a packet of letters of introduction, in 1786. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They sailed from Fortress Monroe on that day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You see, I doen't grow younger as the years comes round, and if I hadn't sailed as 'twas, most like I shouldn't never have done 't. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• We sailed from Gravesend on the 23d of July, 1726. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The next day I sailed to another island, and thence to a third and fourth, sometimes using my sail, and sometimes my paddles. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Accordingly his father and mother sailed with him to the town of Brantford in Canada. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Several great battleships were lost; they went down in the same clear waters over which the ships of Xerxes had once sailed to their fate at Salamis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Following it came another, and another, and another, until twenty of them, swinging low above the ground, sailed slowly and majestically toward us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• We left a dozen passengers in Constantinople, and sailed through the beautiful Bosporus and far up into the Black Sea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Russian Baltic Fleet sailed round Africa to be utterly destroyed in the Straits of Tshu-shima. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not any passenger that sailed in the Quaker City will withhold his endorsement of what I have just said. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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