setting sail

Some refugees wait for days on the ships before setting sail.

They hid out in a tiny town before setting sail for London on a two-month journey by steam ship.

The ship was setting sail at a little after daybreak, and it had been arranged that Señor Velasquez was to come and see him off.

At the moment of setting sail, he wrote to the Senate to announce the conclusion of the war in Asia, and his own speedy return.

Then, setting sail with the rapidity of a man-of-war, she bore down upon the American vessel.

Setting sail from Goa on the 18th of February 1513, the armament arrived safe at Aden.

These things were reported to Belisarius when he was just about setting sail.