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Example sentences for "sailed away"

  • Then he sailed away to explore further, and met the fate described in the poem.

  • He sailed away in a galliant ship From the port of old Bristol, And the last words he uttered, As his hankercher he fluttered, Were, "My heart is true to Poll.

  • And now because Marcellus's colleague, who was recalled from Sicily, had a mind to name another man dictator, and would not be forced to change his opinion, he sailed away by night back to Sicily.

  • He returned no pleasing answer, but commanded them to be quiet and attend his time, and so sailed away.

  • At last, to the relief of the wretched inhabitants, the buccaneers, with a huge booty, sailed away to Corso Island, a place of rendezvous of the French buccaneers.

  • Misson, giving Tew an equal share of his gold and diamonds, sailed away, while Tew managed to return to Rhode Island in New England, where he settled down for a while.

  • Then did Ahti Saarelainen Push his boat into the water, Like a snake in grass when creeping, Even like a living serpent, 120 And he sailed away to north-west, On the lake that borders Pohja.

  • Then the aged Vaeinaemoeinen Went upon his journey singing, Sailing in his boat of copper, In his vessel made of copper, Sailed away to loftier regions, To the land beneath the heavens.

  • With these he sailed away to the coast of India, and for a time his name was lost in the obscurity of uncertain history.

  • As it was, he did not like the looks of it, so he sailed away to the eastward, to Ireland, where he settled himself at Biddeford, in hopes of an easy life of it for the rest of his days.

  • It was well for himself that Blueskin left when he did, for not three days after he sailed away the Scorpion sloop-of-war dropped anchor in Lewes harbor.

  • Therefore he thought it would be wise to allow Lafitte the time he asked for, and he sailed away, promising to return in fifteen days.

  • Then he sailed away as rapidly as possible in the direction of the open sea.

  • He called his ship the "Mazzini," writing to the prophet and patriot in London for his blessing; but without waiting for it sailed away to victory.

  • But anyway, Garibaldi and a band of twenty boys, all younger than himself, sailed away to victory or to death.

  • Before he sailed away, however, he marched upon one or two of the Pearl fisheries, where he found a few pearls.

  • They found the fat hog "very like our English pork," thereby illustrating the futility of travel; and so sailed away again "to seek greater matters.

  • No guns were fired, for the Spanish admiral wore ship, and so sailed away to the island, when he brought his squadron to anchor.

  • We sailed away and I was left stricken at heart.

  • He summoned a council of the chief men of Ithaka and commended to their care his wife and his child and all his household, and thereafter he took his sailors and his fighting men with him and he sailed away.

  • Some of us sailed away, and some of us remained on the shore at the bidding of King Agamemnon, to make sacrifice to the gods.

  • He slew the Minotaur, and, taking with him Ariadne and the youths, sailed away.

  • He therefore sent them all out of the city, and did not permit the terrified people of Selymbria to suffer any violence, but, having exacted a contribution of money and placed a garrison in the town, he sailed away.

  • In order to effect this, he sailed away in great haste, and, although the Phoenician fleet was at Aspendus, yet Tissaphernes brought it no further, and deceived the Lacedaemonians.

  • When none of them ventured to put out to attack him, because of the speed of his rowing, he sailed away: having thus with his one ship successfully defied the entire fleet of the enemy.

  • Finding them resolved not to listen he sailed away, and, taking up his other nine ships, returned to Rhodes with the whole squadron.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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