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  • The river straightened out here into its general easterly course, and we squared away before the wind, wing-and-wing once more, the foresail bellying out to starboard.

    Charley's Coup 2010

  • Before it came the scow schooners, wing-and-wing, blowing their horns for the drawbridges to open.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • We were tearing along, wing-and-wing, before the wind, foresail to starboard and mainsail to port, as we came upon the salmon fleet.

    Charley's Coup 2010

  • The Wonder, wing-and-wing, was headed directly in for the anchorage.

    THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

  • Navy aviators tended to fly in widely spaced, flexible tactical formations, referred to as "loose goose," rather than the tight wing-and-wing approach used by most of their opponents.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • And ever ahead of her, pitching on the swells, the mysterious green galley rowed and sailed, her two triangular sails set wing-and-wing, like the leathery pinions of some flying reptile of old.

    Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

  • Then it breathed again, over the port quarter this time, and then it drew farther aft, so that the topsails were braced square and the foresail could be hauled over to the port side and Crab ran wing-and-wing for ten blessed minutes until the wind dropped again, to a dead, flaming calm.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

  • With the wind east by north Crab would be running wing-and-wing, possibly.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

  • Toward ten o'clock, however, the monsoon veered, and, wing-and-wing, the old boat, creaking in every joint as if she had the dengue, grunted her way over flashing combers with a speed that seemed almost indecent.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • In a couple of hours we were entering the bay, and running "wing-and-wing."

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

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