All you will have to do when you are sailing along the ice and come to open water will be to turn a switch and jump right into the air.
The wind increased toward the end of the day and it was hard to skate against it; but the young folk had a lot of fun sailing down the length of the pond with their coats spread for sails.
Even in the simple operation of sailing when at sea, I have often observed different judgments in the officers who commanded the successive watches, the wind being the same.
No; I was simply on the point of sailing for Europe when he approached and asked me to deliver a letter to Prince Mastowix.
And watching this Nihilist so closely accounts for his being on board the steamer where we first met him, and of his sailing away in the manner he did.
The steamship Baltic was on the point of sailing from America to Europe.
At first there were only nine of them adventurous sparks, then, just a day or two before the sailing date, he turned up.
In my judgment these booms are dangerous and their presence should not be permitted aboard a sailing craft--or, at least, they should be towed a safe distance aft.
What is more, he goes and paints pictures to prove it--pictures of cubic waterfalls pouring down cubic precipices, and cubic ships sailing on cubic oceans, and cubic cows being milked by cubic milkmaids.
They were to stay in Washington for a fortnight, in Baltimore for three weeks, in Philadelphia for a week or two, and in New York for nearly two months before sailing for Europe in May.
With you in my arms and mammy by my side, I drove to Richmond, and sending the carriage back, I drew what money there was to my credit in the bank, and took the steamer sailing that day for New York.
All this was seventeen years ago, remember, when there were no railroads of importance, and no quicker way of going from Richmond to New York than by the infrequently sailing steamers.
Then they sprang up and played in the sunshine, sailing to and fro on the spring winds, and throwing tiny scent-balls out into the air.
He was now a fluffy white cloud, sailing over the sky and joining the other clouds in their games and dances.
THE SUN'S NEST Winnie and I went sailing fast Out to the golden West.
We asked him to set us ashore, promising to pay him better ransom than he would get price if he sold us to the Moors—as once befell a knight of my acquaintance sailing from Flushing.
He is a swift trailer, but not so swift or secretive but some small sailinghawk or lazy crow, perhaps one or two of each, has spied upon him and come drifting down the wind to the killing.
Poor Bob--sailing away to the south, thinking that where he left her there he would find her!
At this very minute I'm sailing and sailing; but I'm not being carried farther away from you.
Having compelled her to go through a form of marriage--it was no more than a form--he was sailing off to the ends of the world, leaving her not so much as the protection of his name.
Sailing to-morrow on Venezuela, and will take all responsibilities off your hands.
I was vexed to see how these gentlemen were admitted while I danced attendance, and the project of sailing with Orloff began to displease me.
I dressed myself hastily, and went to the Exchange, where I heard that a vessel was sailing for Fiume the same day.
The boat was sailing with such an even movement that I could not realize the fact of our moving, so that the trees, which, one after the other, were rapidly disappearing from my sight, caused me an extreme surprise.
To this one answers that the sailing of no British ship has been delayed by an hour by fear of the submarine menace.
The effect was immediately apparent in the improvedsailing of the schooner.
But the Tallahatchie was in a position where it was plain sailing now, and her future troubles would all come from the blockaders.
We can see that she is sailing very fast; but how fast has not yet been demonstrated.
Steamers Pocahontas at Norfolk, Paunee at Washington, Harriet Lane at New York, to be under sailingorders for sea, with stores, etc.
Another log-book is that of a Greek named Scylax, who gives the sailing distances between nearly all ports on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and the number of days required to pass from one to another.
The ancients, as we have seen, had recognised the rotundity of the earth, and Eratosthenes had even recognised the possibility of reaching India by sailing westward.
A curious survival of this custom lasted on in map-drawing almost to the beginning of this century, when the spare places in the ocean were adorned with pictures of sailing ships or spouting sea monsters.
Sailing farther to the eastward, Tasman came out into the open sea again, and thus appeared to prove that the newly discovered land was not connected with the great unknown continent round the south pole.
And with that, to the admiration of the multitude, they faced about and went sailing up the street.
John Cabot, a Venetian residing in Bristol, was the first person sailing under the English flag, to come to these shores.
The first expedition, sailing under Pizarro in 1524, was unable to proceed more than a certain distance owing to their inadequate numbers and scanty outfit, and returned to Panama to seek reinforcements.
Particular attention was being paid so as to preserve the secrecy of the sailing day of Shafter's army.
To Port Tampa, "Go out and find a tug and get this message to either General Miles or General Shafter, 'The President directs that you stop the sailing of Shafter's army until further orders.
The correspondents were all on the transport "Olivette," and just before they pulled out I sent them a message saying I would release the news that night about the sailing of the fleet only, and they might file their messages.
It is only while sailing on the Pacific that one sees Chimborazo in its complete proportions.
Goldie had been to Annan the day previous, to ascertain the time of the steamboat's sailing from Liverpool, and had borrowed a boat from a friend of his father's there, in which he and Cummin were to return.
Things went on in this uncertain way for some time, till the young men, wearied of sailing backwards and forwards to and from America, resolved to vary the scene, by making a voyage to India.
He lashed the ocean into great sheets of foam, he piled the waves mountain high, he dashed the spray into the very heavens, and woe to the galleys that were sailing homeward.
O lang, lang may their ladies sit, Wi' thair fans into their hand, Or eir they se Sir Patrick Spence Cum sailing to the land.
And it flew out into the water, and swam toward the beautiful swans: these looked at it, and came sailingdown upon it with outspread wings.
And first he thought of going down to the harbor and hiring a swift ship, and sailing across the bay to Athens; but even that seemed too slow for him, and he longed for wings to fly across the sea, and find his father.
When Congress first met after the close of hostilities (December, 1865), it was as a ship sailing into dangerous and unknown seas without chart of possible channels.
This somewhat improved the prospects and stimulated the construction of sailing vessels; but the competition in the world's carrying-trade is in steam-vessels.
Two days more he spent in doubling a cape, and five more in sailing about a large gulf.
But be the account true or false, I certainly can discover in it no ground for believing that Hanno did more than coast along the western shore of Africa, sailing perhaps as far south as Sierra Leone.
Whence I say, that before all else your Majesty ought, in this case, to give such examples to those sailing in the fleet which you expect to have prepared, so that those who go shall not be betrayed .
Endorsed: "In order that those sailing in the fleet may heed the counsels and decisions of magallanes, and that first and foremost, before proceeding elsewhere, they may sail to the spice islands.
That one-fifth of all net profits derived from the expedition be allotted them on its return, and that each year they may carry one hundred quintals' weight of merchandise in any ship sailing from those regions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
