Example Sentences

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Look at the crowded life on yonder frigate, coming in full-sailed before the steady sea-breeze.

From Malbone: an Oldport Romance by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

That vessel came in here one day last August, a stately, full-sailed bark; nor was it known, till she had anchored, that she was a mass of imprisoned fire below.

From Oldport Days by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

"He said it over-right all that was in the house, and he reddening his pipe at the fire," replied Mrs. Brickley, in full-sailed response to the helm.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

The young moon floated in the star-sprinkled heavens like a golden boat, with a faint suggestion of the full-sailed orb.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

I do begin To feel an alteration in my nature, And in his full-sailed confidence a shower Of gentle rain, that falling on the fire Hath quenched it.

From Night and Morning, Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron