The remaining copies of that edition were sent around Cape Horn by a sailing vessel.
In the fall of 1849 a party of Oregonians, embarked on a sailing vessel, left California for Portland.
Brayle was ready to lay any amount of wagers as to the impossibility of a sailing vessel, even granted she was moved by electricity, out- racing one of steam in such a dead calm.
In fact, if one could rely on the wind, a sailing vessel of one of the types which have been evolved in the district to meet its needs would really be preferable.
The same state of doing instructively and without reflection the right thing at the right time is reached by every proficient in many crafts, by the driver of horses for example, and by the steersman of a sailing vessel.
Such was the force of the wind that a sailing vessel near us lost all her sails, and our large gig was stove in from the tremendous pressure of the gunwale against the davits.
The accommodation of a sailing vessel is, on a rough calculation, double the accommodation of a steamer of the same tonnage.
A sailing vessel and a steamer are different articles; you get attached to a sailing vessel as you do to anything animate, to your horse, or your dog; but I defy anyone to get attached to a smoky, oily steamer.
There was at this period a communication every second day with the ports of Brigus, Harbour Grace and Carbonear, by a sailing vessel, which carried passengers and letters.
By a law of Hayti a sailing vessel, having discharged her cargo, is refused clearance until the duties on such cargo have been paid.
In the following rules every steam vessel which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing vessel, and every vessel under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a steam vessel.
A sailing vessel of 20 tons gross tonnage or upward shall be provided with a similar fog horn and bell.
A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.
Defn: A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce.
For my own part, I never found this to be the case; it certainly is unpleasant, but much easier to bear than the many inconveniences always existing on board a sailing vessel.
Madame Pfeiffer left for the Cape, on the 22nd of May last, in a sailing vessel--her usual mode of travelling by sea, steamboats being too expensive.
Very often we hardly know how a steamer or a sailing vessel looks, much less the mode of life on board them.
A sailing vesselof the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce.
A sailing vessel is backed by means of the sails, a steamer by reversing the paddles or screw-propeller.
She feared that if she let Cuthbert carry her off she would but prove a burden and a care, whilst the thought of London and the strange relations there filled her with distaste and dread.
But I don't understand a sailing vessel in these waters," speculated Leonard.
There are so many fast liners with wireless between New York and Liverpool, it would be a simple matter to get a message signaled to a sailing vesselin the trade route.
In a sailing vessel, all your work is on deck, everything is before you, and everybody under your command.
But it is all told in one short sentence; two hundred and fifty passengers supply two hundred and fifty reasons themselves, why I should prefer a sailing vessel with a small party to a crowded steamer.
I agree with you," said he, "in your comparative estimate of a sailing vessel and a steamer, I like the former the best myself.
So we filled in the time occasionally by initiating the stokers, and others unused to life on a sailing vessel, into the mysteries of steering, of the compass, and of service in the rigging.
Most of my men were, of course, wholly unused to life on a sailing vessel, and the handling of the gear was entirely new to them.
The two ships separated again, as I, in my sailing vessel, could not steer the same course that the steamer took.
This was particularly the case with the stokers, who, naturally enough, had never seen service on a sailing vessel.
A sailing vessel is a vessel wholly propelled by sails.
If, instead of rising in waves the sea remained smooth a sailing vessel could be driven nearly as fast as the wind moves, as is the case with ice boats, which on smooth ice move as fast as the wind.
From a sailing vessel it is impossible to obtain absolutely reliable soundings except in, say, a tideless lake, unruffled by wind.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailing vessel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
