straight sailing
Example Sentences
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A hundred and fifty miles or so of straight sailing would have brought us to Cuba, but our way lay north up the coast, as we had come down the other.
From Pieces of Eight by Richard Le Gallienne
It was straight sailing then with Ellyson Creek to the right and Sharps Creek to the left.
From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie
And where does he keep the figures that ain't straight sailing?
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
And with the exception of the Rink and Five Finger rapids, which don't amount to much, so I have heard, we'll have straight sailing.
From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer
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
