The large number of sails the Flying Cloud could carry increased the speed of the ship.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Cloth sails were used to catch the wind to move a ship through the water.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

The stage itself becomes the ship's surface with sails and rigging.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

It usually carried at least twenty-one large sails.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

A strong wind fills the sails.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

The image of a man on a boat, white mane tousled, smiling broadly as he sails into the wind, ready for what storms may come, carrying on toward some new and wondrous place just beyond the horizon."

VOA: special.2009.09.13

"The political winds are behind you, the negotiating sails are set,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.28