Within minutes the flames had ascended the rigging and set the vast sails alight.

Up aloft a bosun was leading a dozen men who were securing the ship's great yards, from which the vast sails hung, with lengths of chain.

The snap of a yacht's vast sail filling with a gust.

Diana's design was sound; the vast sail was living up to his calculations.

The vast white sail flapped for a second, furled, revealing blue sky.

It was beautiful; with its low hull, it looked from a distance like nothing more than a vast sail on water.

From afar, the rows of cables, which are painted a bright yellow, look like vast sails, and the pylons like masts.

The plane skimmed on, passing great curved walls of bark, shooting between leaves that stretched like vast green sails.

At the ship's mainmast now the vast sail rose, square, billowing, marked with the cross within a circle, the Sign of the Light.

Davos the hippy wears big flares - so big they're like vast flapping sails.