Le Monarque can put to sea within an hour of receiving my orders, and Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his friends will be safely out of reach, ere Le Levantin unfurls her sails, and pins to her masthead the pennant of traitors.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
As soon as the warm breeze of an early spring thaws the ice on his rivers and lakes, the Scandinavian Viking unfurls his sail, fills his rude boat with provisions, and trusts himself to the mercy of the waves.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
"When she unfurls her flowing sails, "Undaunted by the fiercest gales, "In dreadful pomp, she ploughs the main, "While adverse tempests rage in vain.
"The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III)"
Philip Freneau