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Meanings of fill the sails in English

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Usage of fill the sails in English
1
Well, sir, there is hardly air enough to fill the sails.
No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
2
The shrouds creaked as the wind increased a little to fill the sails.
Success to the Brave
3
It wouldn't take more than two to fill the sails of a a ship.
The Man With The Broken Ear
4
The happiest winds fill the sails of you and yours!
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
5
He could smell the rum on the hot breeze, which was barely enough to fill the sails.
For my Country’s Freedom
6
He coughed on the rum and spluttered, "God, this is the stuff to fill the sails!"
The Only Victor
7
Everything they knew about warfare dried up and blew away with the first breath of wind to fill the sails.
Ilse Witch
8
Comanche in particular took advantage of the chance to fill the sails, ramping up the speed to well over 20 knots.
Radio NZ
9
Although the scud swept in toward the land at a fair speed, there was not enough wind to fill the sails.
The Last Hope
10
In about an hour, however, the first whiffs of the night-breeze came to fill the sails, and the oars were put in.
Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
11
The wind was from the land, but so light as scarcely to fill the sails, and the ships made but little progress.
Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V
12
It's an ill wind that blows no good and the draught of recession has done nothing but fill the sails of Hibernia College.
The Irish Times
13
We were on the starboard tack and probably making around two knots in a breeze that didn't much more than fill the sails.
Dead calm
14
We ran out of the lagoon into the open lake, after a while; but there was hardly wind enough there to fill the sails.
Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk
15
But as a general analogy, news fills the pages of a newspaper in the way that air currents fill the sails of a ship.
The Irish Times
16
It suggested a small spell that would insure that wind would fill the sails of the counselor's ship, and urge it onto the rocks.
Wizardborn
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