Sentence examples for moon sailing from inspiring English sources

A poster depicts the Half Moon sailing in front of Fulton's steamship, an ocean liner, Wilbur Wright's biplane and the Statue of Liberty.

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea.

ANDREW MARVELL It's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me.

As the earth spins and the moon sails.

Or is it that no one knows it's possible to stand in the very place where, in 1609, Henry Hudson's three-masted ship, the Half Moon, sailed in search of his illusory northwest passage?

The moon sails over the river and reflects off the dead glass of the Wheeling Steel plant.

The last time the moon sailed this close to Earth was on Jan . 26 , 1948when it came 30 miles closer.

On the morning of March 1 , 1865 Dahlgren's flagship, the side-wheel steamer USS Harvest Moon, sailed from Georgetown toward Battery White, which Dahlgren intended to inspect.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon sailed within 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers) of Earth on May 31, making their closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries.

The corncrake's song rings in my ears, above the rye a full moon sails The proverbial use of the corn crake's call to describe someone with a grating or unmelodious voice is illustrated in the quotation "thanks to a wee woman with a voice like a corncrake who believed she was an apprentice angel".

By Phyllis McGinley The New Yorker, April 4, 1936 P. 29 Oh, I went down to Chinatown when the moon was sailing View Article By Phil Klay By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By John Cassidy.