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  • But you keep a sharp lookout; and if some mornin 'you don't see her, you says,' Sailin 'orders!' you says, and then you calls Cap'n Nazro, as never failed in a kindness yet, nor ain't likely to, to take the wheel, and you put for this island.

    Captain January Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • Whether dealing with giddy glee ( "Superball," "Good to Be") or wistful longing ( "Summer," "Sailin '"), there's nothing haphazard about the band's concoctions, all as ebullient as they are efficient.

    Album review: Magic Kids, "Memphis" 2010

  • Sailin 'down the Mississippi to a town called New Orleans,

    Rambling, Gambling Willie 1998

  • Sailin ', sailing 'cross the devil's sea, oooh, hooo, too blind in love, too blind to see.

    Sailin' 'Cross The Devil's Sea Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Allen Woody, Jack Pearson 1994

  • Sailin '' round the world in a dirty gondola (note 3)

    When I Paint My Masterpiece Bob Dylan 1987

  • Sailin '' round the world in a dirty gondola (note 3)

    When I Paint My Masterpiece Bob Dylan 1987

  • Sailin 'down the Mississippi to a town called New Orleans,

    RAMBLING, GAMBLING WILLIE Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1962

  • "Sailin 'vessel lyin' to, west half south," he shouted, "flyin 'distress signals."

    The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • "Sailin 'directions," says he, smilin 'apologetic.

    Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

  • Sailin 'past the Bay of Islands with its pinnacles an' peaks,

    In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894

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