Cruising, in a way

Usage examples of sailing.

It had not been possible to provide the aerological outfit at the time of sailing, and the meteorologist of the expedition was therefore left behind in Norway.

Mayor Aiken thought his post-lunch meeting with Philip Mohandas would be smooth sailing, a photo op.

In 1614, Captain Sir Samuel Argal, sailing under a commission from Dale, governor of Virginia, visited the Dutch settlements on Hudson River, and demanded their submission to the English crown and Virginian dominion.

They slid along the structure like droplets of water along the wires of a wet birdcage, and passed over and through each other like waves, whether they met moving about the armature or sailing through the space inside.

The stench of tar, the creak of timbers, the splash of the swell of an ice-cold sea, the incessant rocking all told him he was still a prisoner on the Azhkendi vessel, sailing ever farther away from Astasia by the hour.

From the first I sensed that we were not sailing new water, and indeed it caused me a moment or two of bafflement until I noticed the sorry state of the worms, and all became clear.

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.

A couple of seamen at the wheel were keeping the ship sailing fast, with Swan occasionally peering down at one or the other of the dimly lit compasses in the binnacle, his confidence restored.

But Biter was not fully canvased, sailing staid and easy under topsails only, so there were no alarms.

He looked over his shoulder and Neil was flying in his wake, the Bludger sailing harmlessly over his head.

Register as her guide book, and work the boaty people, the ocean sailing types, with appropriate cover story, and see what she could get in the way of gossip.

A soggy football went sailing past the window and a clatter of bogmen chasing after it.

We were five hours sailing before we reached the line of battleships bombarding at about fifteen thousand yards.

Admiral Antonio sailing in the Bucentaur, with the nobles of the land!

In sailing to Virginia, navigators steer through a strait formed by two points, called the Capes, into the bay of Chesapeak, a large inlet that runs three hundred miles into the country from south to north, covered from the Atlantic Ocean by the eastern side of Maryland, and a small portion of Virginia on the same peninsula.