straight sailing

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It was straight sailing then with Ellyson Creek to the right and Sharps Creek to the left.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Haynie, Miriam

After sixty-eight days of quick and straight sailing, with no sight of land, they fell in with the Philippine Islands, and on 3rd November with the famous Spice Islands.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

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 Labouchere, Henry

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 Stratemeyer, Edward

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 Le Gallienne, Richard