Sentence examples for kept on sailing from inspiring English sources

Moitessier found the experience so fulfilling, and the idea of returning to civilisation so distasteful, that he abandoned the race despite a good chance of victory and just kept on sailing, eventually landing in Tahiti after travelling more than halfway round the world again.

For unknown reasons, the ball keeps on sailing past the hole and he re-enacts the Keegan Bradley act of a minute or so earlier but with added internal cussing.

This is the high art of not-doing, and I plan to simply hold on as the envelope just keeps on sailing, second star to the right, and straight on till dreamtime.

"Captains change, but the ship keeps sailing on," said Ivan, a stagehand who would not give his last name, saying he was wary of angering management by commenting.

She would like to keep sailing.

Statisticians say record prices keep sailing in.

At 12 times 2006 earnings the stock should keep sailing.

A plowman goes about his work, a ship "sailed calmly on," dogs keep on with "their doggy life".

And the longer we stand around with our eyes locked on the dirty fuels of yesteryear, the more real opportunities will keep sailing on by.

"It is a little boat's destiny to keep sailing on a blue, blue lake," the bear laments.

Ms. Barnett surmised that those spikes tend to occur late in the year, because "Family vacations have already been taken and bonuses have already been doled out, and now people in shaky marriages begin to ask themselves, 'Do I want to keep sailing on this lifeboat?