straight sailing
Example Sentences
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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
At one o'clock I left this orgie of German terrorism in a train, and from thence to Calais all was straight sailing.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere
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 where does he keep the figures that ain't straight sailing?
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
