In 1736 he sailed from New Orleans to Mobile with a strong force of French troops and twelve hundred Choctaw warriors.
Some two years later a Spanish expedition sailed into Matagorda Bay, intending to drive away the French, but found they were gone and their fort destroyed.
He joined his ship at Bristol, and from that port he sailed for the city of Lisbon with a cargo of West of England goods.
From thence he sailed to London, thence to Hamburg, and after several voyages between the two last-mentioned cities, chartered his ship to the Mediterranean, and took a valuable cargo at Marseilles for Bristol.
We’ve sailed too long in the same boat—I mean, we’ve dipped our fingers too deeply in the same till to peach upon each other, or to quarrel.
Often, too, might they have been seen watching the ships as they sailed up and down the channel.
The prince, having escaped from the enchanted island, sailedaway for three days and three nights, and every night he hoped the coming morning would show him the island he was in search of.
The boat sailed round and round the island, going closer and closer every round, until, at last, the drooping branches almost touched it.
The day passed and the night fell, and the stars looked down, and the boat sailed on, and just as the sun rose above the sea it pushed its silver prow on the golden strand of an island greener than the leaves in summer.
Blessings be upon you, Enda," said the swan, and she sailed away from the shadow out into the light across the lake to the sedgy banks.
As soon as they had completed their task, he rose slowly from the hill and sailed out over the lake, and dropping down on the waters, dived beneath them.
For a quarter of a year Brian and his brothers sailed hither and thither over the wide ocean, landing on many shores, seeking tidings of the Island of Fincara.
That's funny," reflected Sidney, "How can they when he sailed the wide seas!
Her grandfather had evidently thought a great deal of this brother who had sailed the oceans wide.
He abetted her safeguarding the various mementoes of the days when the Betsy King sailed into the harbor from foreign shores.
To and fro in mid-air, far beneath, sailed a superb pair of lammergeyers, their expanded pinions gleaming almost white in the sunlight.
Slowly the magnificent bird wheeled and sailed overhead, and our eyes feasted on the object we would have given two little fingers to possess.
For several days we sailed over a vast expanse of ocean, with never a sail to break the regular skyline.
On arriving at the latter place I found, to my consternation, that the Prudence had sailed on a special voyage to Hull, and would not be back for another fortnight.
Enery, bluff, stouthearted seaman, is now master and part owner of the vessel in which he sailedwith Captain Jeremy to the far-off West Indies, for the Golden Hope is now engaged in prosperous trading voyages to the Mediterranean ports.
Continuing on their way, with a fresh breeze and cloudy weather, they sailed along the Asiatic coast near enough to observe many natives and at two places they saw dwellings.
From noon of the 11th to noon of this day, the Gabriel sailed sixty-nine miles, but the difference of latitude was only 21 miles.
No one who had sailed between St. Demetrius and East Cape could have sanctioned such a position for the island with honesty.
We sailed around the south point of Kamchatka to the mouth of the Bolshoia river, making a chart of this part which had not previously been delineated.
The Gabriel sailed the whole day with no land in sight and the difference in latitude was only 78 miles at noon, reckoned from noon of the 12th.
Every morning, as soon as it is light, some of the crew of each ship enters a small boat, which can be sailed or rowed as is found necessary.
Of course, in those days, no one ever thought of coming through the Red Sea, but all vessels sailed all the way round by the Atlantic, so the voyage naturally took many months, especially if the winds were unfavourable.
It then sailed for Corsica, to call for the convoy at Ajaccio commanded by Vaubois, and afterwards proceeded to the sea of Sicily to join the division of Civita Vecchia, under the command of Desaix.
A Greek flotilla having destroyed a Turkish flotilla, Ibrahim took this as a breach of the convention and sailed out to sea, but Codrington succeeded in turning him back.
At about this time an Egyptian fleet of ninety-two vessels sailed from Alexandria and joined the Ottoman fleet in the bay of Navarino (September 7th).
Until this date it therefore appears that ships sailed up the Pelusiac branch of the Nile to Bubastis, and thence along the canal to Heroopolis, where the cargoes were transhipped to the Red Sea.
It sailed on the 19th of May, amid the thunders of the cannons and the cheers of the whole army.
In the following spring, whilst El-Adil was in Syria, a Christian fleet sailed to Damietta, and besieged the town.
By a singular fate, it was not till two days afterwards that the French expedition came in sight of Alexandria, on the 1st of July, which was very nearly six weeks since it sailed from Toulon.
Then we set out again and sailed other twenty days, the seas broadening and the land shrinking.
The vessel sailed on, the wind being fair, for the space of fifty days; at the end of which we cast anchor under the walls of a great city wherein was a world of people, especially learned men, none could tell their number save Allah.
So my father fitted out six ships for me and my people; and we put to sea and sailed for the space of a full month till we made the land.
His words were greeted with great enthusiasm, and on the following Monday evening he read, at Steinway Hall, for the last time in this country, and sailed on Wednesday.
Just before he sailed upon his return to England he gave the dinner at Delmonico's of which Wallack speaks, to repay many civilities, and assembled a miscellaneous party of twenty or thirty guests.
Never before had Robur sailed on a sea of fire--fire without heat--which there was no need to flee from as it mounted upwards into the sky.
A short time after he arrived in Melbourne he became the owner of a small brigantine of about a hundred tons, and in her he sailed for X Island.
Not finding us where he expected, and being persuaded we ought to have arrived there had Alexandria been the place of our destination; he sailed for Alexandretta in Syria, whither he imagined we had gone to effect a landing.
Nelson, who learned the capture of Malta at Messina on the day we left the island, sailed direct for Alexandria, without proceeding into the north.
General Baraguay d'Hilliers joined us with his division,--which had embarked in the convoy that sailed from Genoa.
At sight of the French troops the commander of the Turkish flotilla weighed anchor andsailed up the Nile.
The flotilla sailed up the river parallel with the left wing of the army.
At that moment the sound of the piano sailed through the door at the end of the corridor.
As for me, if I had known what I know now, you would have sailed under another captain.
He then sailed for the Holy Land, and landed near Acre, in the centre of the seat of war.
Suffolk sailedfor Calais, but in the Dover Straits his vessel was beset and captured by some London ships, which had been lying in wait for him.
From Heligoland, the Channel Isles, Gibraltar, and Sicily, hundreds of vessels sailed by night to land their cargoes in secret.
A larger armamentsailed in 1596 against Cadiz, under the Earl of Essex and Lord Howard of Effingham.
He then sailed to Ireland, where--like his predecessor Lambert Simnel--he met with some support.
So he gathered his retainers and many hired soldiers, and sailed away to Spain; nor was his face seen in England for more than four years.
The expedition was very late in starting; it should have sailed in July, and would then have found the Russians unprepared.
He fell in the moment of victory, but his efforts had not been in vain: his troops sailed away in safety, and the French invasion of Spain had been checked for four months by his bold stroke.
It would have been well for the King of England if his son and his French neighbour had sailed for the Holy Land in the year that they made their vow.
The conflict was not without its vicissitudes, and on one occasion the Dutch Admiral Van Tromp won a battle, and sailed down the Channel with a broom at his masthead, to show that he had swept the seas clean.
Just as Hengist and Aella had sailed out with their war-bands in search of plunder and land in the fifth century, so the chiefs of the Northmen were now preparing to lead out their followers into the western seas.
They had worked their way through the shipping of the harbour, and then sailed straight for the shore of Salamis.
The general presented each of us with a new suit of clothes, for which he received our most hearty thanks, and on the 7th we went on board, and sailed for New York on the 11th.
This day was very pleasant, and with a gentle breeze we sailed and rowed 30 miles up the Kennebeck river.
Young Glory was right," he exclaimed; "the Cristobal Colon hassailed from Porto Rico.
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.
They sailed in September 1699, and after a three months’ voyage the proprietor and his secretary touched the shore of the new land of promise, in which it was Penn’s intention to pass the remainder of his life.
They had procured a sloop through the aid of some white men, andsailed off up the Potomac--not a very brilliant proceeding on their part.
Clara flashed a vengeful glance on her step-mother, as the doctor thus characteristically uttered himself, and sailed majestically out of the room.
Take the scene where the Princess of Pilliwink sailed away to Zululand as an example of the variety we were able to introduce.
On my arrival, I had the mortification to learn that the ordinary passage-boats had sailed a little before.
Before Cynthia herself sailed away to far-off India she carried armfuls of her own heart treasures up there.
She came back once or twice but in the end Green Valley heard that she married a wonderful missionary and sailed away to India.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
