It was very pleasant, when I stayed late in town, to launch myself into the night, especially if it was dark and tempestuous, and set sail from some bright village parlor or lecture room, with a bag of rye or Indian meal upon my shoulder, for my snug harbor in the woods, having made all tight without and withdrawn under hatches with a merry crew of thoughts, leaving only my outer man at the helm, or even tying up the helm when it was
plain sailing. I had many a genial thought by the cabin fire "as I sailed." I was never cast away nor distressed in any weather, though I encountered some severe storms.
In another half hour he was progressing rapidly, and, but for an exceptional word now and again, he found it very
plain sailing.
There was now no one on board of his boat that had ever voyaged on the Missouri; it was, however, all
plain sailing down the stream, without any chance of missing the way.
Even so, it was not all
plain sailing. The air is an unstable medium at best, and quite without warning, at an acute angle, he entered an aerial tide which he recognized as the gulf stream of wind that poured through the drafty-mouthed Golden Gate.
(if it was a case of very
plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr.
"One goes along smoothly enough, one thing following another, and it's all very jolly and
plain sailing, and you think you know all about it, and suddenly one doesn't know where one is a bit, and everything seems different from what it used to seem.
And after that all would be
plain sailing. Paul could forecast the scene so exactly.
When you know your Pints, blow high, blow low, you'll find it
plain sailing all over the house."
"It will be all
plain sailing for Syd, I fancy," observed Tom, getting up as if the little cricket suddenly ceased to be comfortable.
After that it was
plain sailing, though as far as I could know, there might be most anything ahead of us, and my nerves strained to the snapping-point every instant.
And don't you run away with the idea that all will be
plain sailing; nothing will be easier than getting some stuff, and nothing harder than avoiding all suspicion, as, of course, we must.
But, as this documentary reveals, it's not all
plain sailing. Terrifying weather, emergency evacuations, collisions, sickness and crime, are all caught on camera.