straight sailing
Example Sentences
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Then it was straight sailing down the Bay, past the mouths of the Rappahannock and York, and finally, into the James.
From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie
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
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 M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
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
And where does he keep the figures that ain't straight sailing?
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
