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Example sentences for "sail from"

  • It is reckoned six 'doegr's' sail from Ireland.

  • Goodwins, Cora Pryde has absolutely declined to sail from Tilbury.

  • Possibly the Minnetonka never had sailed and never would sail from Tilbury.

  • I told you he was going to sail from Tilbury on his world-tour, and have a grand embarking ceremony and seeing-off!

  • There is a small place, not many days' sail from Tahiti, and seldom visited by shipping, where the vessel touched to which I then happened to belong.

  • It is fifty days' sail from Calecut, with a good wind.

  • It is 40 days' sail from Qualecut [Calecut], with a good wind.

  • It is 40 days' sail from Calecut, if the wind is favourable.

  • Sail from Smyrna in the Salsette frigate.

  • Once possessed of a cypher, I flatter myself that few vessels will sail from France or this country without letters from me, which, although often not interesting, may yet in some degree contribute to the satisfaction of Congress.

  • In the meantime, it is my wish to find a favorable opportunity to sail from hence; and whenever the pilot will take upon him to conduct this ship to sea, I will give him my best assistance.

  • This place too is undefined; we only learn that, even with the most favourable gale, it was ten days' sail from Ithaca.

  • Lotus-land, therefore, being ten days' sail from Malea, was well over the limit of the discovered world.

  • Egypt, of which Homer had some knowledge, was but five days' sail from Crete.

  • Having informed the packet of our conjectures, and also of the time we understood the China ships were to sail from Canton, we left them, and proceeded toward the Cape.

  • He was quite convinced that some years at least it would be possible to sail from Behring's Straits to the Atlantic.

  • The Russian also said that it was an easy matter to sail from Vaygats to the mouth of the Ob.

  • It is therefore possible at a certain season of the year (during the whole of the month of August) to sail from Norway to Novaya Zemlya, make sporting exclusions there, and return without having seen a trace of ice or snow.

  • Before this reaches you, you will be informed that a strong squadron of thirteen capital ships and several frigates has sailed from Toulon, and that another squadron is ordered to sail from Spithead.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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