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The leeward side of the island gets little rain.
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they were sailing leeward
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She steered around to the leeward side of the bar and, in the stiller waters, beached as gently as a first kiss. (source)leeward = the direction toward which the wind is blowing
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About fifty miles short of Barbers Point, a base on the leeward side of Oahu, his crew spotted something.† (source)
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Only some survivors, on the island's leeward side.† (source)
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In each crack grew a gnarly sea grape tree deformed from leeward winds.† (source)
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The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.† (source)
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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)
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An editorial pleaded for the exercise of common sense as Wilson moved to declare war; another celebrated the recent extension of ferry service to the leeward side of the island.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Finding three large sycamores growing close together, we stopped on the leeward side.† (source)
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I set my travelsack on the leeward side of one of the greystones and the two of us began to set up camp.† (source)
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I loved the old fort, and the schooners, the Ruyterkade market with the noisy chickens and squealing pigs, the black people shouting; I loved the koenoekoe with its giant cactus; the divi-divi trees, their odd branches all on the leeward side of the trunk; the beautiful sandy beach at West-punt.† (source)
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As the wind changed direction I moved Rocinante to keep her always to leeward of our big oaks.† (source)
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