And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy which is called a war vessel. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There is something so exhilarating in the motion of a sailing-vessel, always provided she is neither rolling about in a calm, lying to in a gale, or beating against a head-wind. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So the two women drove to Sandridge and boarded a sailing-vessel bound for the Cape. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A few days later. the legation party had sailed for China and Japan, and on the 19th Clemens himself set out by a slow sailing-vessel to ❋ Unknown (2003)
Well, I find that so long as I am capable of falling in love with you again, which will not be for long, it would be madness, for the sake of a sailing-vessel and a Rolls-Royce, to meet again and to risk the happiness of your life since you have decided that it lies in your living apart from myself. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The next day, at dawn, he sighted a Spanish sailing-vessel, which he thought to make an easy prize. ❋ E. Hamilton Currey (N/A)
Luna had sailed toward the west, and a gleam of daylight was streaking the sky at the east, before the churning, choppy waters began leaping less high, and once again I was tossed crest-high, where I was glad to catch sight of a sailing-vessel that was steadying herself in the distance, and a white yacht was skipping like a frightened but rescued bird afar off. ❋ Harriet A. Cheever (N/A)
Early in October this company was detailed, as one of four, to embark in a sailing-vessel for Savannah, Georgia, under command of ❋ David Widger (N/A)
I had drifted far from the sailing-vessel, when, as I floated high on the crest of a wave, I looked upon a pleasure-craft of some kind, riding high upon the breakers. ❋ Harriet A. Cheever (N/A)
The three acceptances duly matured and were paid; one morning Meiggs and family were missing, and it was discovered they had embarked in a sailing-vessel for South America. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
Going to sea on a steamer gives one no idea of the winds and waves, -- the real life of the ocean, -- compared to what we get on a sailing-vessel. ❋ Caroline C. Leighton (N/A)
She was a full-rigged sailing-vessel, of 300 tons, with auxiliary steam power furnished by an engine built in New Jersey. ❋ Edwin M. Bacon (N/A)
It was a long voyage in a sailing-vessel, and many of the poor little prisoners died on the way. ❋ Sarah J. Eddy (N/A)
"Discovering your flight, they have not waited for calm weather to follow in a swift sailing-vessel, as I had thought they would, but have sent out a search-party afoot to overtake you at the outset." ❋ Annie T. Colcock (N/A)
Chilled mutton and beef are sent direct to London, though the passage takes five or six weeks by steamer and twelve to sixteen weeks by sailing-vessel. ❋ Various (N/A)
Methuselah of birds, it was possessed of an uncanny gift of human speech and understanding, and had been promoted through generation to generation, from sailing-vessel _via_ Merchant Service to British Navy. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
This, however, will seldom be the case, nor to any great extent; as the homeward-bound packet, whether steamer or sailing-vessel, will almost always be at Cape Nichola before the steamer gets up from the leeward. ❋ James MacQueen (N/A)
_ At Trincomalee, a spare boat would require to be stationed, in case of accidents, which would make four for the station; prime cost, 96,000_l. _, and one sailing-vessel, 2,000_l. ❋ James MacQueen (N/A)
And some doubted the bird's sojourn on a sailing-vessel in the full-rigged, full-mouthed days of 1840! ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
Perhaps, if the steamer had been a sailing-vessel, there would have been no story to tell about Mae Madden, for a long line of evenings, and girls singing songs, and hurricane decks by moonlight, are dangerous things. ❋ Mary Murdoch Mason (N/A)
