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  • Not the Windward or Leeward Island colonies, mark you, but within, of course, the Greater of the two Antilles (while the precision of my prose may be, at times, laborious, it is necessary that I identify myself to you clearly).†   (source)
  • As Dandelion ended, Acorn, who was on the windward side of the little group, suddenly started and sat back, with ears up and nostrils twitching.†   (source)
  • Signal Bristol and Fife to stay to windward of us.†   (source)
  • On the wall beyond the counter a list of nearby "Out Isles" was next to a larger column of the well-known Leeward and Windward Islands from St. Kitts and Nevis south to the Grenadines.†   (source)
  • The snow had rizen onto the windward side of rocks and trees, where it gleamed like lacquer.†   (source)
  • It had been arranged that we would leave Spanish Town immediately after the ceremony and spend some weeks in one of the Windward Islands, at a small estate which had belonged to Antoinette's mother.†   (source)
  • "Do you know about the Leeward and Windward Islands?" he asked me.†   (source)
  • The noble Mouse would creep away from the merry circle at the camp fire and sit down by the dragon's head, well to the windward to be out of the way of his smoky breath.†   (source)
  • He stumbled, fell sideways along the crusty surface of the windward face.†   (source)
  • The windward side is packed smooth and hard.†   (source)
  • Ryan saw the Bristol and Fife holding station to windward.†   (source)
  • Fancy feeding under bushes on the windward side of a wood!†   (source)
  • Recall the second helicopter, I want both on station to windward.†   (source)
  • Beyond their buildings the forest thinned, and I saw that we were high on a promontory overlooking the island's windward shore.†   (source)
  • The evening was cooling, and it was amazing how much fresher the air was here on the windward side of the island.†   (source)
  • Stooping, Paul planted the thumper deep into the windward face where the sand was compacted and would give maximum transmission to the drumming.†   (source)
  • He stepped out onto the windward face of the dune, following the curve of it, moved with a dragging pace.†   (source)
  • When barrier dunes reached sufficient height, the windward faces were planted with tougher sword grasses.†   (source)
  • With the downwind face anchored, the windward face grew higher and higher and the grass was moved to keep pace.†   (source)
  • This little estate in the Windward Islands is part of the family property and Antoinette is much attached to it.†   (source)
  • …Brandywine, Hohenlinden, Salamis, and the Wilderness had been fought both by land and by sea; Hippias had been expelled from Athens by the Alcaemonidae and the Lacedaemonians; Simonides, Menander, Strabo, Moschus, and Pindar had closed their earthly accounts; the beatified Eusebius, Athanasius, and Chrysostom had gone to their celestial niches; Menkaura had built the Third Pyramid; Aspalta had led victorious armies; the remote Bermudas, Malta, and the Windward Isles had been colonized.†   (source)
  • 'They watched in the dark with their heads half turned to windward as if expecting to hear cries.†   (source)
  • If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would.†   (source)
  • The sealing boats are not made for windward work.†   (source)
  • As we entered I could have sworn I saw a vague bulk emerging to windward.†   (source)
  • But through it all I clung to the one idea—_I must get the jib backed over to windward_.†   (source)
  • From regarding me curiously, he turned his head and glanced out over the leaden sea to windward.†   (source)
  • Let us get to windward and see what they are doing on the other side of the bonfire.†   (source)
  • Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.†   (source)
  • The cunning knave is paddling dead to windward, and the Scud can never overtake him!†   (source)
  • It glowed on the windward side, rising and falling in intensity, like the coal of a cigar.†   (source)
  • Though lifted to the very top of the cranes, the windward quarter boat (Ahab's) did not escape.†   (source)
  • Tiny animals—worms, insects—rode ashore on tree trunks snatched from islands to windward.†   (source)
  • Leeward! the white whale goes that way; look to windward, then; the better if the bitterer quarter.†   (source)
  • Unconscious of my blunder, I passed by Wolf Larsen and the hunter and flung the ashes over the side to windward.†   (source)
  • As for Captain Vere, he for the time stood unconsciously with his back toward them, apparently in one of his absent fits, gazing out from a sashed port-hole to windward upon the monotonous blank of the twilight sea.†   (source)
  • Lawrence Selden was among the passengers sailing this afternoon for Havana and the West Indies on the Windward Liner Antilles.†   (source)
  • Reef to windward!†   (source)
  • Steal soft from lap to lap, —A little great man in a circle small, Or navigate, with madrigals for sails, Blown gently windward by old ladies' sighs?†   (source)
  • As she edged round the keep, she must have got to windward and smelt his cigar-smoke, for she exclaimed, "Hullo!†   (source)
  • They had lit a fire fit to roast an ox, and it was now grown so hot that they could only approach it from the windward, and even there not without precaution.†   (source)
  • The schooner, her mainsail set and jib-sheet to windward, curveted on the purple sea; there was a rosy tinge on her sails.†   (source)
  • Turning, he to-and-fro paced the cabin athwart; in the returning ascent to windward, climbing the slant deck in the ship's lee roll; without knowing it symbolizing thus in his action a mind resolute to surmount difficulties even if against primitive instincts strong as the wind and the sea.†   (source)
  • Wolf Larsen repeated his manoeuvre, holding off and then rounding up to windward and drifting down upon it.†   (source)
  • Wolf Larsen motioned Louis to keep off slightly, and we dashed abreast of the boat, not a score of feet to windward.†   (source)
  • It was only next day, when Wainwright Island loomed to windward, close abeam, that Wolf Larsen opened his mouth in prophecy.†   (source)
  • When he was half-way out, the Ghost took a long roll to windward and back again into the hollow between two seas.†   (source)
  • But in all that wild waste there was no refuge for Leach and Johnson save on the Ghost, and they resolutely began the windward beat.†   (source)
  • Even as he spoke, a bullet was deflected by a brass-capped spoke of the wheel between his hands and screeched off through the air to windward.†   (source)
  • There was a silence I might almost call awkward, till I broke it, saying: "See those black clouds to windward.†   (source)
  • Back we held, two miles and more to windward of the struggling cockle-shell, when the flying jib was run down and the schooner hove to.†   (source)
  • The first struck fifty feet to windward of the boat, the second alongside; and at the third the boat-steerer let loose his steering-oar and crumpled up in the bottom of the boat.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIX I came on deck to find the Ghost heading up close on the port tack and cutting in to windward of a familiar spritsail close-hauled on the same tack ahead of us.†   (source)
  • "If she comes out of there," he said, "hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it's likely there'll be empty bunks in steerage and fo'c'sle."†   (source)
  • Though the rest of her sails were gone, the jib, backed to windward, and the mainsail hauled down flat, were themselves holding, and holding her bow to the furious sea as well.†   (source)
  • Again there was a puff of smoke and a loud report, this time the cannon-ball striking not more than twenty feet astern and glancing twice from sea to sea to windward ere it sank.†   (source)
  • We knew she carried fourteen boats to our five (we were one short through the desertion of Wainwright), and she began dropping them far to leeward of our last boat, continued dropping them athwart our course, and finished dropping them far to windward of our first weather boat.†   (source)
  • At such moments, starting from a windward roll, I would go flying through the air with dizzying swiftness, as though I clung to the end of a huge, inverted pendulum, the arc of which, between the greater rolls, must have been seventy feet or more.†   (source)
  • He had entered the fog to windward of the steamer, and while the steamer had blindly driven on into the fog in the chance of catching him, he had come about and out of his shelter and was now running down to re-enter to leeward.†   (source)
  • Her low hull lifted and rolled to windward on a sea; her canvas loomed darkly in the night; her lashed wheel creaked as the rudder kicked; then sight and sound of her faded away, and we were alone on the dark sea.†   (source)
  • The hunters were laughing at a fresh story of Smoke's; the men pulling and hauling, and two of them climbing aloft; Wolf Larsen was studying the clouding sky to windward; and the dead man, dying obscenely, buried sordidly, and sinking down, down— Then it was that the cruelty of the sea, its relentlessness and awfulness, rushed upon me.†   (source)
  • Now he studied the sea to windward for signs of the wind slackening or freshening, now the Macedonia; and again, his eyes roved over every sail, and he gave commands to slack a sheet here a trifle, to come in on one there a trifle, till he was drawing out of the Ghost the last bit of speed she possessed.†   (source)
  • He dropped his grapnel, as soon as he found the Ark had drifted in a line that was directly to windward of the rock.†   (source)
  • When Captain Shaw was coming home,—if, as I say, it was Shaw,—rather to the surprise of everybody they made one of the Windward Islands, and lay off and on for nearly a week.†   (source)
  • This order was also executed; and the vessel passed, as Dantes had predicted, twenty fathoms to windward.†   (source)
  • Near two o'clock in the morning, the core of light reappeared, no less intense, five miles to windward of the Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • The pause was filled up by the intonation of a pollard thorn a little way to windward, the breezes filtering through its unyielding twigs as through a strainer.†   (source)
  • At any rate, some leagues to the windward there must be some noisy phenomenon, for now the roarings are heard with increasing loudness.†   (source)
  • Closing the slide to windward, he turned to open the other; on second thoughts the farmer considered that he would first sit down leaving both closed for a minute or two, till the temperature of the hut was a little raised.†   (source)
  • The crew of the Frenchman were seen assembling to windward, and a few muskets were pointed, as if to order the people of the Scud to keep off.†   (source)
  • The Ark was within sixty yards of the castle, a little to the southward, or to windward of it, with its sail full, and the steering oar abandoned.†   (source)
  • Nothing that sails the lake can turn to windward against this gale; and there is no anchorage outside in weather like this.†   (source)
  • Here he took the sweeps and succeeded in getting a short distance to windward, if any direction could be thus termed in so light an air, but neither the time, nor his skill at the oars, allowed the distance to be great.†   (source)
  • At 10:50 in the evening, that electric light reappeared three miles to windward of the frigate, just as clear and intense as the night before.†   (source)
  • The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one, less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern.†   (source)
  • They had taken the direction of the eastern shore, endeavoring at the same time to get to windward of the Ark, and in a manner between the two parties, as if distrusting which was to be considered a friend, and which an enemy.†   (source)
  • Cap made no reply; but he gazed at the land with a rueful face, and then looked to windward with an expression of ferocity, as if he would gladly have quarrelled with the weather.†   (source)
  • Yonder, to windward, all is blackness of doom; but to leeward, homeward—I see it lightens up there; but not with the lightning.†   (source)
  • This last expedient, however, was not taken in time, for the momentum of so heavy a craft, and the impulsion of the air, soon set her by, bringing Hetty directly to windward, though still visible, as the change in the positions of the two boats now placed her in that species of milky way which has been mentioned.†   (source)
  • —why has he brought us here, dead to windward of that bluff, and to a spot where even the breakers are only of half the ordinary width, as if in a hurry to drown all on board?†   (source)
  • No changes for the better had occurred, but the cutter was falling slowly in, and each instant rendered it more certain that she could not gain an inch to windward.†   (source)
  • But as she was so far to windward, and shooting by, apparently making a passage to some other ground, the Pequod could not hope to reach her.†   (source)
  • "He is paddling with all his might, lad," observed the Pathfinder, "and means to cross your bows and get to windward, when you might as well chase a full-grown buck on snow-shoes!"†   (source)
  • In shape, the Sleet's crow's-nest is something like a large tierce or pipe; it is open above, however, where it is furnished with a movable side-screen to keep to windward of your head in a hard gale.†   (source)
  • These last three were brought alongside ere nightfall; but the windward one could not be reached till morning; and the boat that had killed it lay by its side all night; and that boat was Ahab's.†   (source)
  • At first he looked to windward, as is usual with every seaman; then he turned round the horizon, until his eye caught a view of the high lands to leeward, when the whole truth burst upon him at once.†   (source)
  • We are well to leeward of them, I'll engage—I say to leeward; for though one might wish to be well to windward of one island, or even half a dozen, when it comes to a thousand, the better way is to give it up at once, and to slide down under their lee as fast as possible.†   (source)
  • But taking advantage of his windward position, he again seized his trumpet, and knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was a Nantucketer and shortly bound home, he loudly hailed—"Ahoy there!†   (source)
  • Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him.†   (source)
  • For several hours the two vessels were pressing through the water as fast as possible, making short stretches to windward, apparently with a view to keep the port under their lee, the one to enter it if possible, and the other to intercept it in the attempt.†   (source)
  • From the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the excited seamen.†   (source)
  • "Hard-a-lee!" shouted Jasper, letting fly the jib-sheet with his own hands, when the cutter came swiftly up to the breeze, with all her canvas flapping, or was running into the wind's eye, as seamen term it, until the light craft was a hundred feet to windward of her former position.†   (source)
  • At the time the Pequod was making good speed through the water; but as the broad-winged windward stranger shot nigh to her, the boastful sails all fell together as blank bladders that are burst, and all life fled from the smitten hull.†   (source)
  • Jasper quietly bowed and withdrew; still, as he passed down the ladder, the spectators observed that he cast a lingering anxious look at the horizon to windward and the land to leeward, and then disappeared with concern strongly expressed in every lineament of his face.†   (source)
  • The wind was free enough, as has been already explained, to admit of this manoeuvre; and the cutter, catching the current under her lee bow, was breasted up to her course in a way that showed she would come out to windward of the island again without any difficulty.†   (source)
  • So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together.†   (source)
  • Here have I been unconsciously toiling, not pleasuring—aye, and ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward, and with such nervous whiffs, as if, like the dying whale, my final jets were the strongest and fullest of trouble.†   (source)
  • Oh, we've a fine offing now! for, to own the truth, little relishing the neighborhood of them said islands, although they are to windward, I took the helm myself, and run her off free for some league or two.†   (source)
  • He loaded it, and rammed home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, "Down, down all, and give way!†   (source)
  • "How it was exactly," continued the one-armed commander, "I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale's; that went off to windward, all fluking.†   (source)
  • It seemed that somewhat late on the afternoon of the day previous, while three of the stranger's boats were engaged with a shoal of whales, which had led them some four or five miles from the ship; and while they were yet in swift chase to windward, the white hump and head of Moby Dick had suddenly loomed up out of the water, not very far to leeward; whereupon, the fourth rigged boat—a reserved one—had been instantly lowered in chase.†   (source)
  • The recall signals were placed in the rigging; darkness came on; and forced to pick up her three far to windward boats—ere going in quest of the fourth one in the precisely opposite direction—the ship had not only been necessitated to leave that boat to its fate till near midnight, but, for the time, to increase her distance from it.†   (source)
  • There was nothing so very particular, perhaps, about the appearance of the elderly man I saw; he was brown and brawny, like most old seamen, and heavily rolled up in blue pilot-cloth, cut in the Quaker style; only there was a fine and almost microscopic net-work of the minutest wrinkles interlacing round his eyes, which must have arisen from his continual sailings in many hard gales, and always looking to windward;—for this causes the muscles about the eyes to become pursed together.†   (source)
  • …loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him,—poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope…†   (source)
  • Hardly had they pulled out from under the ship's lee, when a fourth keel, coming from the windward side, pulled round under the stern, and showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect in the stern, loudly hailed Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, to spread themselves widely, so as to cover a large expanse of water.†   (source)
  • …he lies, We approach stealthy and silent, I see the mountainous mass, lethargic, basking, I see the harpooneer standing up, I see the weapon dart from his vigorous arm; O swift again far out in the ocean the wounded whale, settling, running to windward, tows me, Again I see him rise to breathe, we row close again, I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound, Again we back off, I see him settle again, the life is leaving him fast, As he rises he spouts…†   (source)
  • We got the starboard tacks aboard, we cast off our weather-braces and lifts; we set in the lee-braces, and hauled forward by the weatherbowlings, and hauled them tight, and belayed them, and hauled over the mizen tack to windward, and kept her full and by as near as she would lie.†   (source)
  • Then we sat High on the ridge to windward of the stench, While each man kept he fellow alert and rated Roundly the sluggard if he chanced to nap.†   (source)
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