sails

Ten minutes afterwards, the sails were furled, and they cast anchor about a hundred fathoms from the little harbor.

“Let go—and clue up!” At this last command all the sails were lowered, and the vessel moved almost imperceptibly onwards.

There’s no hope of getting a talk with Miss Lantry before she sails.”

Then in the long days on board ship, when the vessel, gliding on with security over the azure sea, required no care but the hand of the helmsman, thanks to the favorable winds that swelled her sails, Edmond, with a chart in his hand, became the instructor of Jacopo, as the poor Abbé Faria had been his tutor.