sailing

• Just before sailing, the captain took on board a short, red-haired, round-shouldered, vulgar-looking fellow, who had lost one eye, and squinted with the other, and introducing him as Mr. Russell, told us that he was an officer on board. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• He ought to be called the sailing-master, for, although he goes on shore in France, off the English coast he never quits the vessel. —  The Three Cutters
• "Land!" And he faced round to gaze towards the brig that was sailing very slowly after them some three hundred yards away--sailing, but doing little more than forge her way through the water Nay, not that way, sir," said Joe softly, "but doo east. —  The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
• Beautiful things they seemed, as the sailing isle drew nearer, beautiful and naked, and brave with purple pan-danus flowers, and with red and yellow necklets of the scented seed of the pandanus. —  'That Very Mab'
• Before sailing, the Inspector of Ordnance will furnish the commander with a descriptive list of his battery, together with a statement of the number of times each gun on board has been fired, in the following form; a copy of which the commander shall transmit to the Bureau before sailing: this list shall be returned to the Inspector of the Yard to which she may return, with all additional firing noted opposite the number of each gun, certified "correct" by the commander In the list furnished by the Inspector, if the "number of fires" is estimated_, it is to be entered in red ink (_See Arts. —  Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

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