Initially the French ships held their course, but on determining that the approaching squadron was British, Montfort spread all sail to escape pursuit.
Moreover, she made the wind fair and warm for him, and gladly did Ulysses spread his sail before it, while he sat and guided the raft skilfully by means of the rudder.
He breaks it against the revetment bordering the Gordon Promenade, in the Riverside Leisure Area, with benches and lawns under oaks and chestnuts, prams and children, picnics under way, newspapers spread like sails, and, far up the bank, a stall selling ice cream.
Despite his worldly concerns and troubles, he could strike a lyric note, as he did in these lines: At night, When the silver moonstream makes a lake of limitless plain, I spread the sails of my thoughts in the path of the wind.
The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light.
The blaze on the latter ship, which soon spread to the sails and rigging, prompted a lull in the battle as the crew of Hercules desperately attempted to extinguish the blaze and other Dutch ships scrambled to escape the burning vessel as it drifted through the melee.
But this week it became science fact as Japan's IKAROS spacecraft successfully spread its solar sail the first time such a sail has been deployed in space.
Pliny sat down on a sail that had been spread for him and could not rise even with assistance when his friends departed.
A good-sized sailfish punches out of the water, twists, spreads its cobalt sail fin and shoots back under.
During the dark years of the Civil War, he could still write buoyantly of "a Ship, spreading all her sails..
