Sentence examples for voyage away from inspiring English sources

Its crew was uncertain whether it would try to dock or turn back for Benghazi, the rebel capital, a roughly 20-hour voyage away.

My first destination was Tottenville at the southern end of Staten Island, both a ferry ride and a train voyage away.

Exploration, expansion, the promise that a better life was just a long voyage away — all of these helped fuel the sense of historical mission, the assumption of perpetual progress, which shaped and defined the modern age.

The expedition members would then have travelled to Australia's Antarctic base at Casey some four days' voyage away.

In other words, the Aurora crew will be resuming the work they had to drop when they were called by the Australian maritime authorities to assist in the rescue of the Academik Shokalskiy and the AEE in Cumberland Bay, about three days' voyage away.

The red soil inside the gate and a series of wooden boards that paneled the approach to the gate were both considered sacred, and soldiers or others who anticipated a voyage away from Imerina would take handfuls of the soil and pieces of the wooden boards with them before departing in the belief that it would ensure their safe return.

Our four-night voyage paddled away from New Orleans and made Louisiana stops along the Mississippi at the Oak Alley Plantation, St. Francisville and Baton Rouge.

The logbook of Blackbeard, an English pirate, records that he instructed his crew on several voyages to steer away from charted waters which he called "enchanted" for fear of merfolk or mermaids, which Blackbeard himself and members of his crew reported seeing.

In 2006, she filmed a leading role in the ITV drama Bon Voyage, before taking time away from acting after the birth of her second child.

The little money on him when he left London, fleeing his many debtors, he had gambled away on the voyage.

The other, the first Maybach 62 sedan ever produced, had stowed away for the voyage in a glass box on the ship's sun deck.