He always heaved a sigh of disappointment when he swept the sailless ocean with his glass.

In the midst of a stormy sea, on which night seemed fast settling down, a helmless, mastless, sailless bark lay weltering giddily, and in it sat a man in the full flower of vigorous manhood.

In a short time after this they saw coming towards them on the crest of the waves an empty, sailless ship and no man therein.

I looked upon a blank space of years desolate as a grey and sailless sea.

Thou who makest the tale thy mirth, Consider that strip of Christian earth On the desolate shore of a sailless sea, Full of terror and mystery, Half-redeemed from the evil hold Of the wood so dreary and dark and old, Which drank with its lips of leaves the dew When Time was young and the world was new, And wove its shadows with sun and moon

FROM "DÉMON" Sailless and without a rudder, On the ocean of the air Float the choirs of stars harmonious, 'Mid the mists eternal there; Fleecy flocks of clouds elusive Drift across immensity, Leaving ne'er a track behind them, Following their destiny.

I looked upon a blank space of years desolate as a grey and sailless sea.

The slender, dark outlines of the sailless upper masts were leaning sharply over to leeward, and describing what seemed like mystic circles and figures against the lighter sky.