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We frequently express great surprise that we have no intelligence from our ministers, special ambassadors, and agents; but do not reflect that in the majority of cases dispatches have to be sent by irresponsible and slow-sailing vessels, or by the steamers of Great

Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey

They continued to send slow-sailing brigs and ill-armed sloops-of-war, for the protection of large fleets of merchantmen, with valuable cargoes, while the frigates of the enemy, in search of them, whether in the calm or in the storm, were faster than British seventy-fours, and were equal to British ships of the line in armament.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

The same type of slow-sailing vessels carried all the commerce.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

It may be said that Perry fought the earlier part of the battle almost alone, a slow-sailing brig, the Caledonia, being in line ahead of the Niagara, and

The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Henry Mann

Walking beneath them, you see between their stems part of some slow-sailing cloud or glimpses of the distant plain; as you descend, the gardens, village, and river near below.

Lady John Russell Ed 1910

To add to the troubles, the Ranger proved crank and slow-sailing; and she had only one barrel of rum aboard, which made the men discontented.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

To add to the troubles, the Ranger proved crank and slow-sailing; and she had only one barrel of rum aboard, which made the men discontented.

Richard Carvel — Volume 08 Winston Churchill 1909

To add to the troubles, the Ranger proved crank and slow-sailing; and she had only one barrel of rum aboard, which made the men discontented.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

All the cloud stuff in the sky was gathered into great towering slow-sailing masses, and the rest was blue of the intensest.

The Research Magnificent 1906

Small wonder — it had taken them ten months to come from Japan to America in one of the old-fashioned, slow-sailing vessels.

A Father 1900