Found 16,420 results for "sailing"
Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom S...
by Mark Twain
"Tom!" No answer. "Tom!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You, TOM!"
L'Éducation sentimentale
by Gustave Flaubert
On the morning of 15 September 1840 the Ville de Montereau was lying alongside the quai Saint-Bernard* belching clouds o...
Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:
by Charles Darwin
After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the co...
Elric of Melniboné
by Michael Moorcock
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white.
Two years before the mast
by Richard Henry Dana
I am unwilling to present this narrative to the public without a few words in explanation of my reasons for publishing i...
The Boys from Brazil
by Ira Levin
Early one evening in September of 1974 a small twin-engine plane, silver and black, sailed down onto a secondary runway ...
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
ON A MORNING in mid-April, 1687, the brigantine Dolphin left the open sea, sailed briskly across the Sound to the wide m...
Nova Atlantis
by Francis Bacon
WE sailed from Peru (where we had continued by the space of one whole year), for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taki...
Mademoiselle Fifi
by Guy de Maupassant
The Prussian Commander, Major Graf von Farlsberg, was finishing the reading of his mail, comfortably seated in a large t...
By The Great Horn Spoon
by Sid Fleischman
A sailing ship with two great sidewheels went splashing out of Boston harbor on a voyage around the Horn to San Francisc...
And the Band Played on
by Randy Shilts
Tall sails scraped the deep purple night as rockets burst, flared, and flourished red, white, and blue over the stoic St...
Il purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
To course on better waters the little boat of my wit, that leaves behind her so cruel a sea, now raises her sails, and I...
The Sicilian
by Mario Puzo
MICHAEL CORLEONE STOOD on a long wooden dock in Palermo and watched the great ocean liner set sail for America.
