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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his Breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-Besotted Traveler; he Served human liberty.
~ Jonathan Swift
He liked order and precision, and his crew knew it. He had hand-picked each and every one of them, and he'd never sailed with a finer group of men. Not that he would ever say it out loud, but they knew it.
~ Jeff Grubb
and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week's washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was
~ Kenneth Grahame
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
~ Alice Morse Earle
But it did matter. He'd spent his entire life searching. He'd apprenticed to a dozen different professions. He'd fought in revolts, sailed two seas. All the while searching, searching for something he hadn't been able to define. He'd found it when he'd come to the Black Tower.
~ Robert Jordan
As I sailed into Shadow, a white bird of my desire came and sat upon my right shoulder, and I wrote a note and tied it to its leg and set it on its way. The note said I am coming, and it was signed by me. A black bird of my desire came and sat upon my left shoulder, and I wrote a note and tied it to its leg and sent it off into the west. It said, Eric- I'll be back, and it was signed: Corwin, Lord of Amber. A demon wind propelled me east of the sun.
~ Roger Zelazny
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
On May 12, a thousand New Yorkers cheered from the docks as Jay sailed to England, hoping to avert war.
~ Ron Chernow
Menodorus, with an experienced eye for the unpredictable Mediterranean weather, sailed out to sea, where he rode out the storm;
~ Anthony Everitt
Before. Yes, before, I sailed my little boat on a placid sea of ignorance. Was I blissful? Oh my, yes. Before the truth floated like jetsam towards me, fouling my rudder . . .
~ Ellen Datlow
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Evan Bourne is a ship that has sailed but if he wound up back at WWE, I'm imagine I'd run back to that name because of copyright ownership stuff.
~ Matt Sydal
What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp.
~ Judith Ivory
THE PILGRIM MOTHERS AND FATHERS Provincetown's first settlers were, in fact, the Pilgrims, who sailed the Mayflower into Provincetown Harbor in 1620. They spent the winter there but, finding too little fresh water, sailed that spring to Plymouth, which has gone into the history books as the Pilgrims' initial point of disembarkation. Provincetown is, understandably, not happy about this misrepresentation of the facts.
~ Michael Cunningham
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
~ Kate Adie
United States sailed on November 3, reaching the port of Lisbon three and a half weeks later.
~ Ian W. Toll
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
~ Barbara Tuchman
July 24th, 1833.—The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August the 3rd she arrived off the mouth of the Rio Negro.
~ Charles Darwin
The schnapps had worked its blessed magic. Drunk now, we surrendered to a blankness born of terror. We sailed on a black sea and we had only one goal: not to look down and drown in it.
~ Carsten Jensen
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.
~ Virginia Woolf
the armada sailed into the open waters of the Atlantic, the abandoned conspirators
~ Laurence Bergreen
According to this account, the expedition came to a strait, entered it, and sailed west until violent storms
~ Laurence Bergreen
Yes, I am Canadian, having sailed here from England on a Russian boat called the Alexander Pushkin when I was the ripe old age of 4.
~ David Hewlett
Elizabeth's mother would probably hate the sight o] him. He'd only remind her of the happy months last summer, before he had sailed.
~ Unknown