Quotes About Sail

Already in the sacred bowl I've quaff'd oblivion, and my rapturous soul Heav'n's harbour gains full sail!

That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.

With my wolf's hunger I haul my lamb's body down like a sail I am like the wretched boat and the lascivious sea

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy.

Viking Age sail 100 meters square took 154 kilometers (60 miles) of yarn. Working eight hours a day with a heavy spindle whorl to produce relatively coarse yarn, a spinner would toil 385 days to make enough for the sail. Plucking the sheep and preparing the wool for spinning required another 600 days. From start to finish, Viking sails took longer to make than the ships they powered.

The night is not a tumultuous black ocean in which you sink or sail as a star

distinguished by her triangular lateen sail (the name lateen came from the word "Latin"), borrowed from Arab vessels.

Each ship had three masts, one of which carried a lateen sail.

if they continued with their plan to sail for Spain; they would offend God, King Manuel

After the tranquil respite, Santiago set sail and proceeded south in search of the strait. On May 22, the wind picked

the strait, he argued, they should sail back to Spain to assemble a better-equipped fleet.

Magellan spoke excitedly of his intention to sail along the eastern coast of what is now called South America until the land ended and he would be able to turn west toward the Spice Islands;

Although some we rarely see, the thought of them is comforting, like the pleasure of knowing there is a mooring somewhere, if occasionally we want to sail into port.

A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.

A FLAT, still sandy, still meadowy region… a superb range of ocean beach—miles and miles of it. The bright sun, the sparkling waves, the foam, the view—a sail here and there in the distance. Walt Whitman had written that

Oh! teach my heart that chilling lore That the world hath taught to Thee. While I am on the sunny shore, What are the ocean storms to Me? Oh! some that with me used to sail, Now wreck'd 'neath the waters lie; But we have felt no adverse gale, We will coldly pass them by.

Nicholas Pateshall, A Short Account of a Voyage Round the Globe in H.M.S Calcutta 1803–1804, ed. Marjorie Tipping, Queensberry Hill Press, Melbourne, 1980, 56–64.

The blowing winds are but our servants When we hoist a sail.

I promise you calm seas,' Ã¢â'¬Â Sir Godfrey called, and raised his hands in benediction, " Ã¢â'¬Ëœauspicious gales, and sail so expeditious that shall catch your royal fleet far off.' 

She felt lost, adrift in a sea of uncertainty, alone on a ship that she didn't know how to sail, knowing only that there were no charts, and no land in sight.

Lowe arrived just in time … took them all aboard No. 14 … then set sail again for the Carpathia, still towing D.

De Quincey compared the two arts of rhetoric, logos and pathos, to rudder and sail. The first guides discourse and the second powers it (Thonssen and Baird, 1948, p. 358). Even

If any one loves an object which he delights to love, enraptured, in his happiness, let him rejoice, and let him sail with prospering gales. But if any one impatiently endures the sway of some cruel fair, that he may not be undone, let him experience relief from my skill