straight sailing

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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 Le Gallienne, Richard

Then all is straight sailing, as you say, papa.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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 Stratemeyer, Edward

After sixty-eight days of quick and straight sailing, with no sight of land, they fell in with the Philippine Islands, and on 3rd November with the famous Spice Islands.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

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 Haynie, Miriam