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full sail

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full sail
adv
at top speed
adj (postpositive)
adv
(Transport / Nautical Terms) with all sails set
full-sailed  adj


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It was three-cornered, like a cut of cheese lying on its side: on the walls were pictures of women in corsets, and two poster-proofs, one of a man in pyjamas, green and white in large stripes, and the other of a ship in full sail ploughing an azure sea: on the sail was printed in large letters `great white sale.
She came in, like a ship in full sail, an imposing creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in alarmingly by straight-fronted corsets.
Upon the eighth day he discerned a small vessel under full sail approaching Monte Cristo.
 
 
 
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