sailing-vessel

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.

Les Miserables 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.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

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

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

So the two women drove to Sandridge and boarded a sailing-vessel bound for the Cape.

Ultima Thule 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.

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

It was a long voyage in a sailing-vessel, and many of the poor little prisoners died on the way.

Friends and Helpers Sarah J. Eddy

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.

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever

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.

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever

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.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

And some doubted the bird's sojourn on a sailing-vessel in the full-rigged, full-mouthed days of 1840!

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest