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  • Finding three large sycamores growing close together, we stopped on the leeward side.†   (source)
  • In each crack grew a gnarly sea grape tree deformed from leeward winds.†   (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)
  • By the second week of March, as Adams was preparing to leave for Quincy, word reached Philadelphia that the American frigate Constellation, under Captain Thomas Truxtun, had captured the French frigate L'Insurgent, after a battle near the island of Nevis in the Leewards, the first major engagement of the undeclared war at sea.†   (source)
  • The door was leeward, but we all knew that later the wind would shift.†   (source)
  • By now it rambled off on one side into stock-sheds, stores, stables, and barns, and on the other into wash-houses, dairies, cheese-rooms, farm-hands' rooms, and so on until it three-quarters enclosed a large, beaten-earth yard which lay to leeward of the main house and had a midden for its central feature.†   (source)
  • It was a teetering three-story clapboard building, leaning leeward, locked and dark.†   (source)
  • In the log book he wrote "full gale" again and again, hiding out the storms in some little cove on the leeward sides of an island.†   (source)
  • As the wind changed direction I moved Rocinante to keep her always to leeward of our big oaks.†   (source)
  • "Do you know about the Leeward and Windward Islands?" he asked me.†   (source)
  • The angle of the bar and its gentle flow gathered the shells on the leeward side and laid them gently upon the sand without breaking them.   (source)
  • She read the sea and, having learned from the shells, would embark from the leeward side and head straight for land from here.   (source)
  • The lion approached from the leeward side.
  • The boat rolled violently leeward and the man whose skull was ripped open plunged over the side into the madness of the darkness below.†   (source)
  • The inn's having a special buffet, everything on the house, and a meteorologist from the Leeward Islands Weather Control will speak for a few minutes on what happened last night.†   (source)
  • The storm that had battered the central Leeward Islands two nights before was only a prelude to the torrential rain and winds that swept up from the Grenadines, with another storm behind it.†   (source)
  • Of course, to the world outside, an earthquake down here wouldn't rate six lines buried in the last pages of the want ads, but rumors are flying around the Leewards.†   (source)
  • As I passed to leeward of the galley on my way aft I was approached by the engineer we had rescued.†   (source)
  • As we clung to the lee rail and worked our way aft, I happened to glance to leeward.†   (source)
  • There's the thing in question, abreast of us to leeward!"†   (source)
  • "Shall I take the helm," he inquired of Cap, "and see if we can reach a creek that lies to leeward?"†   (source)
  • So, so, I see him! there! there! going to leeward still; what a leaping spout!†   (source)
  • Leeward! the white whale goes that way; look to windward, then; the better if the bitterer quarter.†   (source)
  • Part of this reached Jasper's ears, but most was borne off to leeward on the wings of the wind.†   (source)
  • In the morning I spotted this island's lofty summits a few miles to leeward.†   (source)
  • "Whew!" he whistled at last—"the squall's gone off to leeward, I think.†   (source)
  • He stared at the ship, which stayed to his leeward five or six miles off.†   (source)
  • And this coast to leeward—it has nothing particular to recommend it, I suppose?†   (source)
  • When dusk descended, the whale was still in sight to leeward.†   (source)
  • The second, stranded to leeward, held up for some days.†   (source)
  • Eight miles to leeward, Professor Aronnax, can you see those blackish specks moving about?†   (source)
  • The boats were pulled more apart; Starbuck giving chase to three whales running dead to leeward.†   (source)
  • Tall spouts were seen to leeward; and two boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were detached in pursuit.†   (source)
  • The shores of Japan were less than 200 miles to our leeward.†   (source)
  • After a moment I walked over to leeward and my heart flew into my mouth at the nearness of the land on the bow.†   (source)
  • If he had been a gliding shadow before, he now became the ghost of such a shadow, as he crept and circled around, and came up well to leeward of the silent, motionless pair.†   (source)
  • Any landsman observing this gentleman, not conspicuous by his stature and wearing no pronounced insignia, emerging from his cabin to the open deck, and noting the silent deference of the officers retiring to leeward, might have taken him for the King's guest, a civilian aboard the King's-ship, some highly honorable discreet envoy on his way to an important post.†   (source)
  • There was just the faintest wind from the westward; but it breathed its last by the time we managed to get to leeward of the last lee boat.†   (source)
  • By this change in her position all her lights were in a very few moments shut off from the boat to leeward.†   (source)
  • The river sweats 266 Oil and tar The barges drift With the turning tide Red sails Wide To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.†   (source)
  • As I did so, I let go of the tiller, which sprang sharp to leeward, and I think this saved my life, for it struck Hands across the chest and stopped him, for the moment, dead.†   (source)
  • No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug.†   (source)
  • You see, sir," he went on, "if once we dropped to leeward of the landing-place, it's hard to say where we should get ashore, besides the chance of being boarded by the gigs; whereas, the way we go the current must slacken, and then we can dodge back along the shore."†   (source)
  • The hull deliberately recovering from the periodic roll to leeward was just regaining an even keel, when the last signal, a preconcerted dumb one, was given.†   (source)
  • 'Then, while the half-caste, bursting with importance, shouted his orders, while the yards swung creaking and the heavy boom came surging over, Jim and I, alone as it were, to leeward of the mainsail, clasped each other's hands and exchanged the last hurried words.†   (source)
  • For although the few gun-room officers there at the time had, in due observance of naval etiquette, withdrawn to leeward the moment Captain Vere had begun his promenade on the deck's weather-side; and tho' during the colloquy with Claggart they of course ventured not to diminish the distance; and though throughout the interview Captain Vere's voice was far from high, and Claggart's silvery and low; and the wind in the cordage and the wash of the sea helped the more to put them beyond…†   (source)
  • As I say, I was not afraid to meet my own death, there, a few hundred yards to leeward; but I was appalled at the thought that Maud must die.†   (source)
  • I looked for the boat, and, while Wolf Larsen cleared the boat-tackles, saw it lift to leeward on a big sea an not a score of feet away.†   (source)
  • I ran forward and had the downhaul of the flying jib all in and fast as we slipped by the boat a hundred feet to leeward.†   (source)
  • As we ran off to get our leeward position of the last lee boat, we found the ocean fairly carpeted with sleeping seals.†   (source)
  • He still held the wheel, and I felt that he was timing Time, reckoning the passage of the minutes with each forward lunge and leeward roll of the Ghost.†   (source)
  • Late in the afternoon I sighted a steamer's smoke on the horizon to leeward, and I knew it either for a Russian cruiser, or, more likely, the Macedonia still seeking the Ghost.†   (source)
  • A snappy breeze was blowing from the west with the promise of more wind behind it; and there, to leeward, in the troubled silver of the rising sun, appeared and disappeared a black speck.†   (source)
  • It was our duty to sail the Ghost well to leeward of the last lee boat, so that all the boats should have fair wind to run for us in case of squalls or threatening weather.†   (source)
  • It partook of the magnitude and volume of distant thunder, and it came to us directly from leeward, rising above the crash of the surf and travelling directly in the teeth of the storm.†   (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)
  • It was in such a storm, and the worst that we had experienced, that I cast a weary glance to leeward, not in quest of anything, but more from the weariness of facing the elemental strife, and in mute appeal, almost, to the wrathful powers to cease and let us be.†   (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)
  • Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.†   (source)
  • The harbor pilot went down into his dinghy and rejoined a little schooner waiting for him to leeward.†   (source)
  • As soon as this was done, Deerslayer "paid out line," and suffered the vessel to "set down" upon the rock, as fast as the light air could force it to leeward.†   (source)
  • Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.†   (source)
  • Coast thirty leagues to leeward.†   (source)
  • The helmsman complied; and, as the Scud was now dashing the water aside merrily, a minute or two put the canoe so far to leeward as to render escape impracticable.†   (source)
  • The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir; how hedges and other shapes to leeward then caught the note, lowering it to the tenderest sob; and how the hurrying gust then plunged into the south, to be heard no more.†   (source)
  • "Now here is Mistress Remarkable Pettibones; just take the stopper off her tongue, and you'll hear a gabbling worse like than if you should happen to fall to leeward in crossing a French privateer, or some such thing, mayhap, as a dozen monkeys stowed in one bag."†   (source)
  • As it extended, I brought out a line of goods suitable for kings, and a nobby thing for duchesses and that sort, with ruffles down the forehatch and the running-gear clewed up with a featherstitch to leeward and then hauled aft with a back-stay and triced up with a half-turn in the standing rigging forward of the weather-gaskets.†   (source)
  • Now if the countrymen of Monnsheer Ler Quaw had been aboard of her, they would have just struck her ashore on some of them small islands; but we run along the land until we found her dead to leeward off the mountains of Pico, and dam'me if I know to this day how we got there—whether we jumped over the island or hauled round it; but there we was, and there we lay, under easy sail, fore-reaching first upon one tack and then upon t'other, so as to poke her nose out now and then and take a…†   (source)
  • It pressed the head slowly round to leeward, it forced the whole fabric bodily in the same direction at the same time, and the water that unavoidably gathered under the lee gave the scow also a forward movement.†   (source)
  • "They see us," said the Sergeant, "and think we have returned on account of the gale, and have fallen to leeward of the port.†   (source)
  • He weathered upon the islands, passed them, and on coming out to the eastward, kept broad away, with nothing in sight in his wake or to leeward.†   (source)
  • "I hug the land, sir, in the hope of passing the enemy's ship without being seen, for I think she must be somewhere down here to leeward."†   (source)
  • The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.†   (source)
  • When I arrived on the platform that morning, I saw the Island of Hawaii two miles to leeward, the largest of the seven islands making up this group.†   (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)
  • As soon as he had reached the end of the island, Jasper sent his prizes adrift; and they went down before the wind until they stranded on a point half a mile to leeward.†   (source)
  • As before, sir,—straight to leeward.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they hadn't seen us go overboard; and even if they had, the frigate—being undone by its rudder—couldn't return to leeward after us.†   (source)
  • During the magnificent evening of June 25—in other words, three weeks after our departure—the frigate lay abreast of Cabo Blanco, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia.†   (source)
  • Thou, Flask, pull out more to leeward!†   (source)
  • And what is all this to leeward?†   (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)
  • Helm hard to leeward!†   (source)
  • Twenty minutes will carry us into the breakers; and look for yourself, Sergeant: what chance will even the stoutest man among us have in that caldron to leeward?†   (source)
  • "He is heading straight to leeward, sir," cried Stubb, "right away from us; cannot have seen the ship yet."†   (source)
  • Here all the savages instantly embarked, when Jasper took the boats in tow a third time, and, running off before the wind, he soon set them adrift full a mile to leeward of the island.†   (source)
  • "I've sent for you, Master Jasper," said Cap, folding his arms, and balancing his body with the dignity of the forecastle, "in order to learn something about the haven to leeward.†   (source)
  • Now, the game having risen to leeward, he and the other three German boats that soon followed him, had considerably the start of the Pequod's keels.†   (source)
  • Tashtego reporting that the whales had gone down heading to leeward, we confidently looked to see them again directly in advance of our bows.†   (source)
  • At meridian the French ship was hull down, dead to leeward, the disparity of sailing on a wind being very great, and some islands were near by, behind which Jasper said it would be possible for the cutter to conceal her future movements.†   (source)
  • The last was the most serious danger; for, though exceedingly weatherly under her canvas, and totally without top-hamper, the Scud was so light, that the combing of the swells would seem at times to wash her down to leeward with a velocity as great as that of the surges themselves.†   (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)
  • Setting sail to the rising wind, the lonely boat was swiftly impelled to leeward, by both oars and canvas.†   (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)
  • "An hour," said Ahab, standing rooted in his boat's stern; and he gazed beyond the whale's place, towards the dim blue spaces and wide wooing vacancies to leeward.†   (source)
  • The Scud was now in the current, and her outward set soon carried her far enough to leeward to avoid the danger of a repetition of the shot, and then she quietly continued her course along the land.†   (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)
  • Soon all the boats but Starbuck's were dropped; all the boat-sails set—all the paddles plying; with rippling swiftness, shooting to leeward; and Ahab heading the onset.†   (source)
  • There's a soft shower to leeward.†   (source)
  • As soon as Jasper was made acquainted with the terms, and the preliminaries had been so far observed as to render it safe for him to be absent, he got the Scud under weigh; and, running down to the point where the boats had stranded, he took them in tow again, and, making a few stretches, brought them into the leeward passage.†   (source)
  • For example,—after a weary and perilous chase and capture of a whale, the body may get loose from the ship by reason of a violent storm; and drifting far away to leeward, be retaken by a second whaler, who, in a calm, snugly tows it alongside, without risk of life or line.†   (source)
  • But soon, as if satisfied that his work for that time was done, he pushed his pleated forehead through the ocean, and trailing after him the intertangled lines, continued his leeward way at a traveller's methodic pace.†   (source)
  • To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapour hovering over it, and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white rolling billows.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes—the two parts of the wrecked boat having been previously secured by her—and then hoisting everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stun-sails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby-Dick.†   (source)
  • Dead to leeward, sir.†   (source)
  • Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.†   (source)
  • The sudden exclamations of the crew must have alarmed the whale; and ere the boats were down, majestically turning, he swam away to the leeward, but with such a steady tranquillity, and making so few ripples as he swam, that thinking after all he might not as yet be alarmed, Ahab gave orders that not an oar should be used, and no man must speak but in whispers.†   (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)
  • Unlike the straight perpendicular twin-jets of the Right Whale, which, dividing at top, fall over in two branches, like the cleft drooping boughs of a willow, the single forward-slanting spout of the Sperm Whale presents a thick curled bush of white mist, continually rising and falling away to leeward.†   (source)
  • But he looked too nigh the boat; for as if bent upon escaping with the corpse he bore, and as if the particular place of the last encounter had been but a stage in his leeward voyage, Moby Dick was now again steadily swimming forward; and had almost passed the ship,—which thus far had been sailing in the contrary direction to him, though for the present her headway had been stopped.†   (source)
  • I had several men who died in my ship of calentures, so that I was forced to get recruits out of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, where I touched, by the direction of the merchants who employed me; which I had soon too much cause to repent: for I found afterwards, that most of them had been buccaneers.†   (source)
  • Acting on this warning no one answered a word, but after we had gone a little ahead, and the vessel was now lying to leeward, suddenly they fired two guns, and apparently both loaded with chain-shot, for with one they cut our mast in half and brought down both it and the sail into the sea, and the other, discharged at the same moment, sent a ball into our vessel amidships, staving her in completely, but without doing any further damage.†   (source)
  • So altering our course, we sailed north-west and by west, in order to reach the Leeward Islands; but a second storm succeeding, drove us to the westward; so that we were justly afraid of falling into the hands of cruel savages, or the paws of devouring beasts of prey.†   (source)
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