And as I froze on in the cab on that bleak pier-end, I damned myself as well, and the mad freak that had started me voyaging on a sailing-ship around the Horn. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I do not know enough of sailing-ship tracks to be certain whether the brig Negociator would sail for the Friendly ❋ Unknown (2010)
I asked Wada, who, like myself, had never made a sailing-ship voyage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Even Wada, who had never been in a sailing-ship, had his doubts of the voyage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I have learned one of the prime virtues of a steel sailing-ship. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But even Hobson could not have imagined how smoothly ratification would proceed—“as if a sailing-ship on a windless ocean were speeding ahead, propelled by some invisible force,” said the New York Tribune. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)
From there a course was to be made on the best route for a sailing-ship -- for the Fram cannot be regarded as anything else -- southward through the Atlantic, and then to the east, passing to the south of the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, and finally pushing through the pack and into Ross Sea about New Year, 1911. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On a sailing-ship, lying becalmed with the sun in the zenith, it might be warmer than one would wish; but in case of calms we had the engine to help us, so that there was always a little breeze -- that is, on deck. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They met in 1969 at a convention, and their first collaboration, along with Mike Carr, was a set of rules for sailing-ship battles called "Don't Give Up the Ship!" ❋ Unknown (2009)
Kira spun, darted out of the ready room, and slid down the ladderway like an ensign in a sailing-ship holoplay, falling at the end when she forgot and tried to grab with her left hand. ❋ DAFYDD AB HUGH (2008)
From there a course was to be made on the best route for a sailing-ship — for the Fram cannot be regarded as anything else — southward through the Atlantic, and then to the east, passing to the south of the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, and finally pushing through the pack and into Ross Sea about New Year, 1911. ❋ Unknown (2003)
To follow the procedures of eighteenth-century sailing-ship days, the U-boat would have to surface, halt its intended prey by either a signal or a warning shot with its deck gun, send a boarding party to the vessel to establish its nationality, and, if it was an enemy, make adequate provisions for the safety of the crew and passengers before sinking it. ❋ Massie, Robert K., 1929- (2003)
Inger looked at the weather every day, noting the way of the wind, as if she were expecting a sailing-ship; she went out at nighttime to listen; even thought of taking the child on her arm and going after him. ❋ Unknown (2003)
On a sailing-ship, lying becalmed with the sun in the zenith, it might be warmer than one would wish; but in case of calms we had the engine to help us, so that there was always a little breeze — that is, on deck. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Nowadays you have no notion of what a sailing-ship was like in the forties; people who travel P.O.S.H. in a steam packet can't imagine, for one thing, the h--- ish continual din of a wooden vessel -- the incessant creaking and groaning of timber and cordage, like a fiend's orchestra playing the same discordant notes, regular as clockwork, each time she rolled. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1971)
This seaplane and two others have been scouring the seas about here looking for the sailing-ship you went off in. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1952)
