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Example sentences for "sayle"

Lexicographically close words:
sayin; saying; sayinge; sayings; sayis; sayled; saylers; sayles; sayling; sayn
  1. Peeter," sais hee, "I must sayle to the sea to seeke out an enemye; god be my speed!

  2. Horsley," sayes hee, "I must sayle to the sea to seeke out an enemye; god be my speede!

  3. They sayle alwayes towards the west, following the sunne when as she departeth from our hemispherie.

  4. The nine and twentieth we set sayle from Plimouth, and arriued at London the second of October 1589.

  5. The 12 day therefore we set sayle and went further along the coast, and descried more townes wherein were greater houses then in the other townes, and the people came out of the townes to looke vpon vs, but we could see no boates.

  6. Then wee set sayle to an Islande named Faial, about the which lie three other Islands, the one catted Pico, the other Saint George, and the other Graciosa, which we had sight of on the eight and twentieth day.

  7. The sixt of Aprill 1594 we set sayle in the sound of Plimmouth, directing our course toward the coast of Spaine.

  8. But seeing the villanie of these men we thought it best to stay there no longer, but immediately set sayle towardes an Iland, called Fuego, 12 leagues from the said Iland of S.

  9. Thus the eight of December 1592, wee set sayle for the Cape of Buona Speransa, passing by the Ilands of Maldiua, and leauing the mightie Iland of S.

  10. Things likly to be true in a cuntrie wher so many sayle of ships come yearly a fishing; they might as well say, there can no aile or beere in London be kept from sowering.

  11. Which being done, they sett sayle from thence aboute y^e 5.

  12. Mr Sayle remarks that the woodcut illustration is taken from Caxton's second edition (ab.

  13. A shyp wyth a top and sayle was hys creste.

  14. They'le smooth thee into rime, Such as shall catch the wanton eare: And win opinion with the time, To make them a high sayle of honour beare.

  15. And this is th' emblem of our life: To please And flatter which, we sayle ore broken seas Unfaithfull in their rockes and tides; we dare All the sicke humors of a forraine ayre.

  16. The course to sayle to Porto Seguro, that is to say, The safe hauen, lying on the foresayd coast of Brasil, and the markes to know the same by.

  17. At our setting sayle from The downes, according as the custome is, finding the Queenes ships there, we saluted them with certaine ordinance.

  18. You may sayle betweene the maine and that Island, because there is aboue 8 or 9 fathoms water.

  19. This is a good riuer, and better to sayle then all the rest of the riuers, which are in this countrey.

  20. Among these Islands are such abundance of those weedes, that if at any time wee were inforced to sayle ouer them, they hindred the course of our ships.

  21. A ruttier or course to be kept for him that will sayle from Cabo Verde to the coast of Brasil, and all along the coast of Brasil vnto the riuer of Plate: and namely first from Cabo Verde to Fernambuck.

  22. What nede we sayle to Flaunders or Almayne To lerne glotony, syns we may it lerne at home Suche lewdnes soon may we lerne of our wombe He that wyll lerne falshode gyle or sotelte May lerne it here as well as beyonde the se.

  23. Likewise as Plymmouth vaunteth richer and fairer townes, and greater plentie of fish then Falmouth: so Falmouth braggeth, that a hundred sayle may Anker within his circuite, and no one of them see the others top, which Plymmouth cannot equall.

  24. Take in your ancyents, standards eke, So close that no man may them see; 10 And put me forth a white willowe wand, As merchants use to sayle the sea.

  25. But tell the Dolphin, I will keepe my State, Be like a King, and shew my sayle of Greatnesse, When I do rowse me in my Throne of France.

  26. Will you hoyst sayle sir, here lies your way Vio.

  27. She peyneth hir to make good countenance, 320 And forth I lete hir sayle in this manere, And turne I wol agayn to my matere.

  28. They han hir set, and bidde hir lerne sayle 440 Out of Surrye agaynward to Itayle.

  29. Night wee makes what sayle wee could to gett our party which went for Pennamau.

  30. Payta,[47] butt standing to and throw under the Shore wee saw a sayle to windwd.

  31. Armado, which was to sayle from Lymmo, about 17 sayle of Shipps.

  32. Wee found in this River 2 barkques: one we burnt, the other wee brought out which was laden with pitch, She seemeing likely to sayle well.

  33. Then we set sayle againe and sounded euery mile or halfe mile, and found still one depth, so we not knowing where we were, came againe to an anker, seuen or eight miles by West from the place we were at.

  34. The 29 we set sayle and went as farre as Parenzo, and ankered there that day, and went no further.

  35. The 21 we set sayle againe and kept our course Northeast, but because we would not goe along the shore by night, wee came to an anker in foure and twentie fathome water.

  36. To sayle to all Partes of the East, of the West, and of the North.

  37. Sayle was succeeded by Joseph West as governor in 1671, but his appointment was only temporary, as Lord Shaftesbury in the autumn of that year sent a commission to Sir John Yeamans.

  38. William Sayle came from the Barbadoes to South Carolina.

  39. I, master Goursey, I have in my time Seene many shipwracks of true honesty; But incident such dangers ever are 25 To them that without compass sayle so farre: Why, what need men to swim when they may wade?

  40. As fast as wynde and sayle can cary it a maine.

  41. March wee came into Chesapeake Bay, and made sayle to the North of Patoemeck river, the Bay running betweene two sweete lands in the channell of 7.

  42. Having set sayle on the 11th of the same wee crossed the sea with a faire wind, and came upon the coast of France on the 12th of October by day breake in the morning without any impediment, and entred the River's mouth.

  43. Thus taking my answer from this inhuman Hollander I went to another man that was master's mate of a great Lubeckish ship, which was ready to sett sayle the next day.

  44. Soon after his arrival in Carolina, Governor Sayle fell a sacrifice to the hardships of the climate.

  45. In what place Governor Sayle first landed is uncertain; but he was dissatisfied with his first situation, and, moving to the southward, took possession of a neck of land between Ashley and Cooper rivers.


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