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  • We have a ship which saileth every year with merchandise to the nearest Moslem country and which entereth the seas of the Ebony Islands and thence maketh the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • His sails were all of velvet, His mast of beaten gold, And ‘hey bonny boat, and ho bonny boat, Who saileth here so bold?’

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Christian resolution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh, through the waves of the world.

    The Essays 2007

  • Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Where he heard from his Consul strange news, saying that MASON and SLIDELL had sailed in a British steamer, even the Trent, which saileth between Vera Cruz, Havana, and St. Thomas.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • She lifteth up her stately head, and saileth joyfully,

    Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter

  • When the falcon’s shadow saileth across the open shaw, 30

    The Fairy Thorn 1922

  • And I fancy sometimes when the round moon saileth high

    The Miracle, and Other Poems 1913

  • And every shipmaster, and everyone that saileth any whither, [383] and mariners, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, (18) and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying,

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

  • There is but one sea in which the ship of our Lady saileth, and our souls use the office of mariners under the governance of the body, and the ships which be fastened and bounden with strong chains pass well without any breaking through the strong waves of the sea.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

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