Out in the river, lying at anchor, is the good ship that brought us here, and not far from her are a couple of others, one of which will shortly sail for England.
Sicily Gnaeus Pompeius was sent as propraetor to Sicily, and, when he appeared on the coast with 120 sail and six legions, the island was evacuated by Perpenna without resistance.
The Pontic fleet, commanded by Mithradates' best general Archelaus, appeared in the Aegean Sea, where scarce a Roman sailwas to be found.
Two or three mornings after my arrival, I discovered a sail on the very far horizon; a vessel evidently bound to the immediate neighbourhood I had chosen as my look-out place.
On the whole, therefore, what by the seas and our men of war, of the 75 sail that came from the Havannah, I presume one half will not arrive in Spain.
We set sail however and tried all night to gain the wind of the Portuguese, some of which were very near during the night.
He then made sail for the land, which was on that side of the island where there is nothing but rocks and stones as high as mountains, most terrible to behold.
Having remained here two days, we again made sail for the mouth of the Red Sea, where we arrived in other two days.
We leave for Savannah in the morning, and from there sail for New York," he answered.
We'll stop in Charleston, see the quaint old town, go on to Savannah, stop a day or so, and thensail for New York.
Since that, the new Queen's mother is dead, and will delay it a few days; but Lord Harcourt is to sail on the 27th, and the coronation will certainly be on the 22d of September.
Twice the bold admiral set all sail and started on his career, and twice the wind died away before he had proceeded half his course.
At length a fresh and strong wind arose that swelled every sail and sent the ships ploughing up the waves of the Guadalquivir.
It was the plan to ship the motor boat to as near the head waters of the Mississippi as possible and sail down that mighty stream in the early fall.
He believed that he would even requisition the Rambler andsail away with it if he should by chance find, or get, the fugitive on board during the absence of the owners.
Fortù, shall we sail there together And see from the sides 210 Quite new rocks show their faces, new haunts Where the siren abides?
Shall we sail round and round them, close over The rocks, tho' unseen, That ruffle the grey glassy water To glorious green?
George Sweigels, to sail the boat to Canada with this party, for which service Captain Sweigels was to receive thirty-five dollars.
Christian mother and her children in a hack, and conveyed them to one of the Cunard steamers, which fortunately was to sail for Halifax the next day.
It quickly became known at Cleveland that Mr. Brown would take escaped slaves under his protection without charge, hence he rarely failed to find a little company ready to sail when he started out from Cleveland.
When he heard our appeal he entered into the adventure with spirit and gave the order to sail at once.
Then, crossing to where the body lay, I lifted the heavy brown sail that covered it, and in the dim light gazed upon the white, dead countenance.
Adverse marine laws had been passed rendering it impossible to sail an American ship in deep sea transportation except at great loss even if the ship had cost nothing whatever.
He declared the republic was "all sail and no ballast.
It was in the cool of the early morning, at that hour when a man's face can be known, that we set sailfrom Diranda; and in the ghostly twilight, our thoughts reverted to the phantom that so suddenly had cleared the plain.
They sail round an Island without landing; and talk round a Subject without getting at it 49.
He accordingly collected about him a number of handsome youths and maidens and set sailfor the Land of the Rising Sun.
They all come on to Plymouth this evening, and they wish me to be ready to go on board about nine o'clock, when we sail for Oban, only stopping twice on the way to coal.
It sufficed that he was a captive, that the Water Witch would sailwithout him, that he would be discredited in his service for missing an appointment of the utmost importance.
We have decided to return by the Portuguese mail from Madeira," he said, "and in order to catch the next steamer we shall sail in the Sans Souci to-night.
I can never sail upon the blue lake, or down the pleasant river, without seeing in fancy this throng of famished, frightened, blindly hopeful blacks, for whom these waters were the gateway to new life.
It became known at Cleveland that Brown would take escaped slaves under his protection without charge, hence he rarely failed to find a little company ready to sail when he started out from Cleveland.
There was joy at the fort when at length the sail of the little bark was seen; even De Troyes, who had grown exceeding grave and melancholy, took on again something of his wonted spirit.
The man of the hotel advised us to go from Sorrento, it was shorter and a charming sail on a bright day.
There were plenty of boats about (mostly fishermen) of all sizes, some of them with the dark red sailthat is so effective, and several pleasure boats and small yachts.
Some of the party had chosen to sail from Porta d'Anzio to Nettuno, and we saw their boat, full of children, just moving along close to the shore.
We progressed rather slowly, the breeze was mild, the boat heavy and the sail small, but nobody minded.
At noon, for West Indian ports, a German boat was listed to sailfrom the Twenty-fourth Street wharf.
She was listed to sail that evening after midnight.
Jimmie decided at once to sailwith her and, until his beard was grown, not to return.
But he will sail to-morrow for a summer cruise with a party for scientific research.
When the sail rattled down and Louise tossed over the anchor, Lawford roused a bit.
The sail of the sloop slatted and then came down with the rattle of new canvas.
They couldn't row because the weed fouled the oars; and they couldn't sail 'cause the weed was so heavy.
I'll go down and interview the lady who Cap'n Abe said ought to sail before the mast.
Cap'n Am'zon knows of a craft that'll sail to-day from Boston and I must jine her crew.
Said you was a good feller and might help wise me to things in the store here till I'd l'arned her riggin' and how to sail her proper.
Cap'n Amazon knew just the craft for the storekeeper to sail in, clearing from the port of Boston within a few hours.
Lawford Tapp, I ever see who couldsail a smack proper.
Perhaps, too, his own inability to sail to foreign shores and his terror of the sea made him so worship Cap'n Amazon's prowess.
Do you sail in this sloop I see coming across from the millionaire's villa, Miss Grayling?
Two pullin' on the sheet can allus h'ist the sailquicker than one.
If teas do not sail with you before the spring shippings, we fear the Dutch will carry away all the trade of the Colonies in this article.
Sir: I wrote you under date of the 5^th inst^t that you would be pleased to inform the Committee of Warehouses, whether you had a constant trader ready to sail for Boston or South Carolina, but should have said to Boston only.
Three more like this and we'll sail down the coast to Callao.
He entreated them to induce the captain to sail for the coast of Normandy, and made them a gift of twenty shillings.
Thereupon a sail came in sight and the captain fancied it might be an Ostend privateer.
Generally it took twelve or fourteen hours to sail from Calais to Dover.
She crouched still further into the well, content to see naught but the edge of sail against the dense pall of sky, and dimly, where Stuart sat, an outline of bare neck and slouched hat and lean nervous hand upon the tiller.
All this while they were running before a powerful wind, sail and water ablaze with crimson, the same red glow splashing their faces and their hands, and touching with magic all the level shores.
He and Stuart set sail together that very afternoon.
The white skimming sail would have been here a strange anomaly, and the supple curve of pleasure boat.
All this in the space of time it takes a boat to turn over upon its side and drift at right angles to the river, the sail sagging flatly upon the surface of the stream.
It held for her an agonizing moment, after she had hauled in the sheet, when she became a blank as to which way the tiller should be rammed, in squaring the sail anew.
Heard a legend that people whosail always forget matches.
And from the stern should depend a tiny toy sailing-boat, price sixpence halfpenny, which they could really sail on a piece of string.
Peter enquired: "Do we sail over the edge or into the hayfield?
Bernt now had to mind the sail alone; and he and his father, as far as was possible, helped one another.
Ill-constructed boats are sometimes put together but they are, of course, unsatisfactory and sail only moderately well.
The boat was laid with her stem in a slanting direction to it, and with as much sail as she could carry, in order to give her sufficient speed to cleave it and sail right through it.
The boat now flew with the speed of an arrow past naze, island and rock, till Elias thought he had never been for such a splendid sail before, and the boat now showed herself to be, as she really was, the first boat in Ranen.
The companion boat, which had in the meantime vanished, now suddenly appeared again beside them with exactly the same amount of sail as Elias's boat; and he began rather to dislike the look of the crew on board of her.
Their shopping done, they set out to sail the new boat home.
But the little sail they could carry became gradually less and less.
The fourth reef of the sail ought properly to have been taken in, but Elias was loth to give up the race, and he thought he would wait until they took a reef in over in the other boat, where it must be needed quite as much as in his.
We've another night's sail ahead of us before we come to that.
Sail over to Tacoma as quick as we can, and see whether the cutter is there or not.
As he shouted he sprang to the jib-halyard, and, casting it off, allowed the sail to come down by the run, his sole idea of checking the headway of a sailing craft being to reduce her canvas.
He could not swim nor row nor sail a boat; he had never ridden horseback nor on a bicycle; he had never skated nor coasted nor hunted nor fished, and yet he was perfectly well formed and in good health.
And you want to hustle 'em along too, for we are going to sail in half an hour.
