sailless

Elsinore, sailless, drifted about that morning, the sport of wind and wave; and the gang put many lines overboard for the catching of molly-hawks and albatrosses.

CHAPTER XLVII 2010

As it is, sailless, she drifts around and about and makes nowhere save for the slight northerly drift each day.

CHAPTER XLIV 2010

This solemn, silent, sailless sea—this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on earth—is little graced with the picturesque.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

This solemn, silent, sailless sea—this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on earth—is little graced with the picturesque.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Twenty and thirty times a day he would reel out of his tent, a brimming beaker in one hand, stagger the short distance to the shore, and look toward the shipless, sailless harbor mouth.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Twenty and thirty times a day he would reel out of his tent, a brimming beaker in one hand, stagger the short distance to the shore, and look toward the shipless, sailless harbor mouth.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The sun rises, travels across a cloudless sky, gleams on a sailless sea, disappears behind purple mountains gilding their outline, and the day is done.

Tropic Days 2003

The sailless sea smiles in ripples, and strews its verge with treasures for my acceptance.

Tropic Days 2003

"A dozen books or scrolls out of more than five hundred, and none of them say much except that the Old Rationalists had enough power to incinerate a magic forest, move rivers, and build horseless wagons and sailless ships."

The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997

Just as I, so often on short voyage, was glad to wrench my eyes away from that horrid vacancy, to fasten them upon our sailless masts and stack, or to lay my grip upon the sooty smudged taffrail of the only thing that stood between me and the Outer Dark.

The Ship That Saw a Ghost 1996