The ship wherein the Duke was caried is said, (as if it had runne for the garland of victory) to haue outstripped the rest so farre, that the sailers were enforced to strike saile, and hull before the winde to haue their companie.
The wind blew hard from that quarter, and his ships were too heavy sailers to force their passage against wind and current combined.
That notwithstanding your petitioner obtained Leave from the Government to beat up forSailers to man the Young Eagle privateer, John Rous Commander, now bound on a privateering Voyage, yet the sd.
This colonial trade is now divided between sailers and steamers, and in the steamer traffic some of the foreign lines are eagerly bidding for a share.
The cry for huge sailers is an evidence that steam is determining the dimensions of the most modern cargo-carriers under sail.
The fleetest sailers must wait for the dullest and slowest.
She mounts but twenty-eight guns, but is one of the finest sailers in the British navy.
The best sailers of the English fleet were soon close upon them, and they were signalling for help.
Orders were given to some of the best sailers in Hood’s division to chase.
Our sailers also landed in an Iland next adioyning to our ships, where they burnt and spoiled all they found.
At the moment when the first cannon-shots were heard, our worst sailers were not up with their stations.
The other Ship staied to fit herselfe for Spaine with the dry fish which was sould, by the Sailers reporte that returned, at forty ryalls the quintall, each hundred weighing two quintalls and a halfe.
After the embargo of April 14th most of the fast sailers in the American merchant service were converted into privateers.
The slow sailers were to be sent ahead to Yedo Bay, with one week’s start.
But for many years there was a curious dislike and distrust of them among British boat-sailers and builders.
The best sailers ever launched were those Yankee ships, and the Thames building yards were working to create the ideal clipper which should beat them.
But the left was composed of the best sailers in the Corinthian navy, to encounter the Athenians and the right wing of the Corcyraeans.
No finer boat sailers exist anywhere than at Sydney.
With this squadron he had outstripped the slower sailers by not less than forty-eight hours, an invaluable saving of time as it turned out.
The Sea-mew was one of the fastest sailers in the Mediterranean, and with her own wind, which was a point or so off aft, could do what she liked even with a well-manned ship of war.
Upon this occasion we had a fine rattling easterly breeze for eight-and-forty hours after starting, which swept us all, dull sailers and good ones, merrily out of the British Channel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
