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"Plain sailing" in a Sentence (15 examples)
[…] I hired a Tonquineſe for about a Dollar to be my guide. This, tho but a ſmall matter, vvas a great deal out of my Pocket, vvho had not above 2 Dollars in all, vvhich I had gotten on board, by teaching ſome of our young Seamen Plain Sailing.
[…] Me[r]cators Sailing gives the correct Difference of Latitude and Longitude both; Middle Latitude Sailing, only the correct Difference of Longitude; Plain Sailing gives neither correctly; and therefore their Merits are in Proportion.
I doubt as hovv I've ſteered by a vvrong chart, d'ye ſee—as for the matter of the ſciences, to be ſure, I knovv plain ſailing and mercator; and am an indifferent good ſeaman, […]
[W]e have determined to go by way of Lisbon, […] and so on our old route to Malta and Constantinople, if so be that Captain Kidd, our gallant commander, understands plain sailing and Mercator and takes us on our voyage all according to the chart.
[H]e ſhould give himſelf fair play, by trying his hand vvith the rudiments, vvhich vvould no ſooner be run over, than the reſt vvould become plain ſailing: […]
After this [the whale's tongue] was hoisted in, the rest of the way was plane sailing, the blubber of the body being cut and peeled off, in huge unbroken strips, as the carcass rolled over and over, being heaved on by the windlass, then hooked into by the blubber hooks, and hoisted in by the men all the time heaving at the windlass.
Life is not plain-sailing, and writers on Life must not put themselves in antagonism with their subject. Life is the sphinx; and they who see no mystery in her utterances—they who essay not to guess her riddles—what can their lot be but swift destruction?
Yes, it was all plain sailing now. How long had it taken him to win her—three years? He had loved her for three years.
Hovstad. Do you think that will be all such plain sailing? / Dr. Stockmann. Plain sailing or no, it has got to be done, anyway.
Let us admit that without the proper clues the gospels are, to a modern educated person, nonsensical and incredible, whilst the apostles are unreadable. But with the clues, they are fairly plain sailing. Jesus becomes an intelligible and consistent person.
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In another fifty yards there was a second turn, this time toward the left! but it was more of a gentle curve, and we took it without trouble. After that it was plain sailing, though as far as I could know, there might be almost anything ahead of us, and my nerves strained to the snapping-point every instant.
At Tebay however, he began to get the mastery over these untoward conditions, and actually got back a little time up to Shap, after which all was plain sailing.
It was not all plain sailing for Chelsea, however. First David Davis saw his strike tipped over before Slawomir Peszko surged clear of [John] Terry and [Gary] Cahill and rounded Ross Turnbull before shooting into the side netting.
But it's not been plain sailing for those planning the new route. The second half of the line from Dudley to Brierley Hill has run into financial difficulties, as a result of rising construction and operation costs.
And he enjoys conversations with regulators despite not always seeing eye to eye with them, according to another person close to him. But it has not been plain sailing.
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