straight sailing
Example Sentences
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A hundred and fifty miles or so of straight sailing would have brought us to Cuba, but our way lay north up the coast, as we had come down the other.
From Pieces of Eight by Richard Le Gallienne
And with the exception of the Rink and Five Finger rapids, which don't amount to much, so I have heard, we'll have straight sailing.
From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer
Then all is straight sailing, as you say, papa.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
After these antics, I decreased the extent of the possible change in the form of wing-surface, so as to allow only straight sailing or only long curves in turning.
From A History of Aeronautics by Evelyn Charles Vivian
But it was not all straight sailing ahead.
From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Karl Anderson
