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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
sail .
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Examples
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Arrival being in the Evening, we sail'd not that Night, but lay there at
Exilius 2008
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We sail'd with a prosperous Gale, which in a little Time wou'd have brought us on the Italian Shoar at Cajeta, where we intended to disembark, that Port being near the House of Publius
Exilius 2008
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In the month of _May_ last they sail'd on the Main,
Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry Edmund Goldsmid
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Dinner 3 Frigates and a 40 Gun Ship (as if they meant to attack the city) sail'd up the East River under a gentle Breeze towards
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston
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And he sail'd away from Flores till the Spaniard came in sight,
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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They only brought duplicates of the dispatches I had by the others, and a letter to me from the Q---- with a pacquet from her to the K----, by which you may be sure he is sail'd, and we hourly expect to hear of his landing.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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How for nine days with prosperous breeze they sail'd;
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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And away she sail'd with her loss and long'd for her own;
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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Now far from port they'd sail'd, when the strong ropes
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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I sent another, which is the sixt, to France, some days ago, with the account of our victory, who I suppose is sail'd ere now.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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