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All you have to do is to set your sails, studding-sails, royals, moonsails and sky-scrapers, if you carry them; keep them full, and let your vessel go dancing along, day after day, without handling a brace.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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On its breast a Ship starting, spreading all her sailsan ample Ship, carrying even her moonsails;
Ship Starting, The 1900
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On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails.
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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