A little puff of wind on the larboard quarter, and then larboard fore braces!. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXX. Beginning the Long Return Voyage-A Scare] Reference
The Egyptians, steering on the right-hand side, probably took in cargo on the left side or "larboard", that is, the "load" or. From Wordnik.com. [Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas] Reference
7The term 'larboard' is never used at seam now, to signify the left hand; but was always used on the river in my time. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
The larboard hand should then be kept close aboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
You must not, however, encroach on the larboard side. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
And two upon the larboard and two upon the starboard lay. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
Go below, the larboard watch, and let's have no more of this!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Tanjong Balaban, a low point forming the larboard entrance into the. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
At one, discovered a sail two points on the larboard bow, hauled up and made sail in chase. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
About ten at night we discovered a light on the larboard-bow, bearing from us north-north-east. From Wordnik.com. [Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced] Reference
Her starboard side was next the whirl, and on the larboard arose the world of ocean we had left. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The adventurers crowded into the bow of the boat, leaning over the bulwarks to larboard and starboard. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
After laughing and joking some short time in the larboard wing, we again assembled looking as solemn as a. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
On the larboard side of the ship was placed the accommodation ladder, leading from the gangway to the water. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
I heard the larboard watch talking of it when they relieved us; and no sooner had we gone below in turn than. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
At this time some of the crew, eager to save themselves, lowered the larboard quarter-boat, and sprang into it. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
A low, misty line to larboard -- the line of the French coast -- was the last sight of Europe the adventurers had. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The larboard point of Turatte Bay (approaching) is called Malasaro, which comes next to Tanjong Layken in the charts. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
"To larboard, men, or over we go!" cried Amyas, and with one huge heave, he lifted the slender body upon the gunwhale. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Certainly the men of the larboard watch, who were lying in their bunks at the time, didn't like the way the two behaved. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
He went now to starboard, now to larboard, now to the forecastle, now to the steerage, always silently, always deliberately. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
She had a pair of mizzen-masts, one on the larboard side, one on the starboard, and I was puzzled to know how they were used. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
The barge was nearly alongside of her, and we boarded at the same time, she on the starboard quarter and we on the larboard side. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
There is no danger on the right-hand shore going up, but what is seen; on the larboard shore considerable coral-reefs are met with. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
I made one tack towards the Pascoros reefs, and at the time of the catastrophe, was standing on the larboard tack, with the northern point of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
One of our anchor stocks, and our larboard cable, shot away, and a number of grape shot were sticking in different parts of the hull, but not a man hurt!. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Lannes (Ian), one of Napoleon's generals. lapse (laps), a passing away slowly. larboard (lar'bord), the left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing the bow, port. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Larry on the other hand never once turned to look at the shore along the larboard quarter; that which he knew sheltered the seven burly boy hunters claimed all his attention. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
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