"sail" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Toward afternoon he descried far off a strange vessel with funereal purple sails, that drove steadily on an eastering course against the mighty current.
- Lord Ermenwyr stared at the purple sails a long moment.
- Smith watched the purple sails.
- Far on the skyline behind them appeared a racing-galley, with full spread of purple sail.
- A number of tiny boats with single masts and bright white and purple triangular sails scudded across the smooth green water.
- They followed the pattern of longships although highly decorated and fitted with purple sails (purple sails remained standard for royal vessels the next 400 years).
- Shaped like a dragon, with green sides and a purple sail.
- Her silver-oared barge had purple sails and an orchestra of lyres, flutes and pipes, everything perfumed by "countless incense offerings."
- The third was bigger, a salt sea trader with two banks of oars, a gilded prow, and three tall masts with furled purple sails.
- A single mast extends from the center of the main deck, and holds a single, large, square, purple sail.
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