The Myra sails sundown to-morrow and I need to get a swift look around before then.
You, I guess, are going right back on the Myra and she sails to-morrow, sundown.
And they were goodly vessels, by my word, With sails as strong as pinions of a bird, And crew that answer'd well to Duty's call.
There were a few dotting sailsthat seemed as remote, as uncertain, and as unfriendly as sea birds.
On the opposite side--so close upon him as to be almost over his head--the great white sails of a schooner hovered above him like the wings of some enormous sea bird.
The sea still stretched emptily before him; the dotting sails still unchanged and distant.
The vessel clears the dock, passes through the gut, and then pauses for a brief space at the pier, while the sails are set and trimmed.
And now the sails fill; she moves, she starts, there is a cheer, “Off she goes!
There was little wind, but an ambitious skipper had raised his anchor, and the craft, her strained brown sails idly swinging, was drifting away on the first oily turn of the tide.
The gulls swept screaming along the dull line of the other shore of roaring Water Bay, and near the mouth of the brook circled among the fishing boats that lay at anchor, their brown, leathery sails idle and straight.
He did not volunteer either drives or sails on that day, and other people were busy too.
Old Vesuvius and the white sails On the bay are greeting bringing, And the olive-woods are gladdened By the spring-birds' joyous singing.
We then set oursails and glided swiftly and pleasantly over the sparkling waters.
As their sails had become mere dots on the horizon, the victors entered the town singing, not as before songs of triumph in honour of their idols, but praises to Jehovah, to whom they ascribed their victory.
There is a favourable breeze out of the harbour, the anchor is being hove up, the sails are loosed.
As the sun then was, objects close in under the land were not distinctly discernible, but as my glass every now and then swept the horizon on either side, the sails of a fleet of canoes came into view.
I had spars, rigging, and a suit of sails ready, supplied me by the frigate, with a compass and such nautical instruments as I required, so the Olive Branch was soon ready for sea.
The sails were lowered to one third of the masts, and with their fore-sails swelled up like balloons they glided over the waves and anchored in the middle of the harbour.
Sometimes the sun, shining through the clouds, made her blink her lids, when she gazed at the sails in the distance, and let her eyes roam over the horizon from the chateau of Tancarville to the lighthouses of Havre.
His steady sailshe never furls At any time o' year, And perching now on Winter's curls, He whistles in his ear.
It sails the air like a ship of the line, worthy to struggle with the elements, falling back from time to time like a ship on its beam ends, and holding its talons up as if ready for the arrows, in the attitude of the national bird.
Then the sails were unfurled, and The Prince rode proudly out of Boulogne harbour.
The schooner’s sails bellied to it, and a spirit of joy was abroad among the crew.
Little dreaming of the trap that was being laid for them, the crew went about their tasks of trimming sails with songs and glad shouts.
The river ripples onward, the moon sails in serenest glory, the wind wafts the melody down from the wide verandas, and it trembles on the river, making a faint echo of return from the other side.
Her sails fluttered, and her head bore round, until she was on the same tack as the lugger.
As yet, the sails hung idly down, but there were dark lines on the water that showed that a breeze was coming.
The instant she had passed, and was preparing to round to, the sails of the lugger flew up like magic, and she was soon tearing along almost in the eye of the wind, as if to meet the cutter, which was running down towards her.
But before that time was up, the sails were one after another reefed, for the wind continued to freshen.
The yards were shifted to the other sides of the masts, and the sails hoisted again, and the lugger began to retrace her way back along the coast.
No; I will say your craft sails like a witch," the officer replied.
The great sails were lowered, as the boat's head paid off to the east.
The ice was now loose, so as soon as there was enough wind to fill her sailsprogress was commenced.
There were times though, when she sank so far down in the trough of the sea that her sails began to shiver, yet for all that she was uphill again in a second or two, and scudding onwards as merrily as ever.
Then the breeze freshened, and the sails flapped as she leaned steadily over to it.
So swiftly, too, they have fled that it seems to our heroes but yesterday that the little cutter spread her white sails to the wind, and headed down the loch for Fort Augustus.
No, the boat was well steered, and the sails lowered just at the right time, the mainsail neatly and smartly furled, and covered as neatly, and the jib stowed.
Half-an-hour later the sea was all of a ripple; then the Snowbird's sails filled again, and she bore away to the west.
Our heroes were soon on deck, the Snowbird was bounding along before a beautiful breeze, with all her fair-weather sails set and nicely trimmed.
The stranger's foremast had gone by the board, mast and sails and rigging lay about her forepart in dire confusion, burying guns and gunners.
Presently they were not far off Idrigail Point, and the cutter was once more laid on the starboard tack, and sails being trimmed, and everything working well, there was time for conversation.
But we've many more wild adventures to come through yet, ere the Snowbird sails up the loch.
Next morning land was in sight on the lee bow, and by noon they had cast anchor and clewed sails in a small bay near a creek.
From the cable-station doorway in fair weather may be counted the sails of over one hundred vessels going and coming between Boston and New York.
The boat's sails were so white, and the water was so blue, and the sand so yellow that I thought it made a pretty picture.
In spite of their agreement to take it easy their impatience to reach the ship, on whose upper sails their eyes were fixed as they paddled, prevented their doing so, and for the first two hours they rowed at almost racing pace.
She had evidently been observed, and an attempt was being made to hoist some of the upper sails that had been lowered; but the boat was now flying through the water, and in a quarter of an hour ran up on the leeward side of the brig.
Our rigging and sails were cut to pieces, and the masts might at any moment go, and the frigate would then only have to cut herself free, draw off a short distance, and sink us.
The new suit of sails were all bent, and lay loose in their gaskets ready for dropping.
The work of making up the sails occupied the next three days.
As the breeze was off shore Stephen ordered the masts to be stepped at once, and the two lug-sails hoisted.
The sails were dropped, the bow man caught hold of the chains with his boat-hook, and Stephen and the rest of the crew at once scrambled on board cutlass in hand.
In order to avoid the danger, the enemy’s ten men-of-war struck their topmasts and got all their sailson deck, his four frigates alone remaining in sailing order.
You can steer a boat in heavy weather, and knot and splice; you know the sails and ropes, and can go aloft as quickly as a monkey, and do anything that your strength permits.
We must make them think that we are strong-handed,’ Cochrane said to me; and he ordered the men aloft to fasten up the furled sails with rope-yarn and to cast off the gaskets and other ropes.
In the rough weather off the coast he had volunteered for duty, and had shown activity and courage, going aloft to reef or furl sails in the worst weather.
I see scores of ships passing inside the Goodwins so loaded down that I would not be on board in a heavy gale for all the money in the bank, and the state of their sails often shows that they are badly cared for in all other respects.
Instantly the sails began to revolve, noiseless and swift, producing the effect of a rapidly flashing circle of light across which span lines, waxing and waning with extraordinary speed.
The ship had her sails torn in shreds and her rudder broken.
By keeping the sails full she went off into 3 fathoms, but in five minutes hung upon another rock; and the water being more shallow further on, the head sails were now laid aback.
When we came to England, into a port called Wydt,[294] all our yards and top-sails had been carried away.
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