furled

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Shook her white plumage and coqueting, won Propitious favors from the southern sun, Till manly hearts and keel-impelling gales, Furled on the coast her half-reluctant sails.

From Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) by Griffiths, Julia

Like ships, the anchor dropped, Furled every sail is Mirrored with all their masts In a deep water.

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various

Furled at meridian, and ordered the fires to be lighted at 1 P.M.; the weather looking unsettled, heeled the ship and scraped the grass off her port side near the water-line.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

Like ships, the anchor dropped, Furled every sail is; Mirrored with all their masts In a deep water.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis

For you set Wild lightnings free in me that smote the dark Furled round me; and they grew and flashed and flamed Even as I fell.

From Mr. Faust by Ficke, Arthur Davison