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Meanings of black sails in English

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Usage of black sails in English
1
The midnight flight to Dragonstone, moonlight shimmering on the ship's black sails.
A Game of Thrones
2
We hoist black sails in Ostia and carry our son's sarcophagus to Mauretania.
Daughters of the Nile
3
All too well they could see for themselves the black sails.
The lord of the rings
4
How large and beautiful it is, and it has black sails, I know it.
The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
5
They are watching for a ship with black sails.
Shadow and Bone
6
This ship always sailed with black sails.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
7
He scanned the horizon for black sails.
Sons of the Oak
8
But if Queen Isoude refuses, put on black sails; they will be the presage of my impending death.
Bulfinch's Mythology
9
Theseus sailed into conflict with the enemy with black sails set, a signal of battle and of death.
Masters of Space / Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cab...
10
But this one had black sails.
The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
11
And it would not matter how it sets its golden sails, I would overtake it with my black sails.
The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
12
Behind them, from the harbor, came a smaller ship with black sails, almost as if it were giving chase.
Sons of the Oak
13
And even now the wind of thy hope cheats thee and wafts up Anduin a fleet with black sails.
The lord of the rings
14
Her eyes sought Theseus, they wandered farther away to the anchoring-place of the ship, to the sea-to the black sails.
Invisible Links
15
By light of the last one I thought I caught sight of a distant ship, black sails full-rigged and bellied.
The Great Book of Amber
16
His little ship had a black hull, black sails, black oars, and a hold crammed with onions and salt fish.
A clash of kings
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