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make sail



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Idioms and Phrases

see set sail .
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Then all the voices rang out, “Be it so!” and “Well spoken!” and “Let our friend make sail!”

The stern lines were slacked off, and Telemakhos commanded: “Rig the mast; make sail!”

But he put both his hands around my knees in desperate woe, and said in supplication: ‘Not back there, O my lord! Oh, leave me here! You, even you, cannot return, I know it, I know you cannot bring away our shipmates; better make sail with these men, quickly too, and save ourselves from horror while we may.’

"We'll wait for daybreak before we make sail," Wyndham remarked.

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Eight a.m.—hands to quarters; clean guns and arms; division for inspection; prayers; make sail, reef topsails, furl top-sails, top-gallant sails, royals; reef courses, down top-gallant and royal yards.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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