Our own good longship lay there also, and I wondered what they would do with her.
"A Sea Queen's Sailing"
Charles Whistler
Now she had borne up and was heading away westward, some four miles from shore, and sailing well and swiftly, being a great longship.
"A Sea Queen's Sailing"
Charles Whistler
Then help me to another little adventure which I have on hand,-as pretty a one as ever you heard a minstrel sing,-and then we will fit out a longship or two, and go where fate leads,-to Constantinople, if you like.
"Hereward, The Last of the English"
Charles Kingsley