1 The cruise itself charmed her as a romantic adventure.
2 No possible endeavor then could enable her commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there.
3 It would be the greatest pleasure to him to have her there to the last moment before he sailed, and perhaps find her there still when he came in from his first cruise.
4 A friend of mine and I had such a lovely cruise together off the Western Islands.
5 In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel's leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.
6 Why, thou monkey," said a harpooneer to one of these lads, "we've been cruising now hard upon three years, and thou hast not raised a whale yet.
7 They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.
8 For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
9 Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground, the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery.
10 Charley was off in his battleship, cruising somewhere on the Caribbean sea.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II 11 The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
12 During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 13 Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 14 "It was the first time in my life that I ever cruised on the Line," began the Englishman.