Navigators in general, within the tropics, must only look to leeward of the islands for good anchorage. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
They were sailing leeward. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
On the leeward side of the island. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
What you imagined to be a sailing vessel is that dark cloud there, coming up from the leeward, which is fast shutting out the horizon from view. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
We are housed on the "leeward" side of the base -- a boat ride from the Cuban mainland where the detainees are imprisoned and the military commissions take place. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Daskal: The Pentagon Tries a New Tactic to Spin Guantanamo Coverage: Keep Journalists Away from NGOs] Reference
Kailua-Kona, which means "leeward" in Hawaiian, is on the sunny west coast of Hawaii's Big. From Wordnik.com. [Luxist] Reference
"But this is too long a falling to 'leeward' of our story, as the sailors would call it; so we will come right back into the wind again. From Wordnik.com. [Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner] Reference
Ruth slipped out under the curtain on the leeward side. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
As Buttons spoke the boat ahead fell rapidly to leeward. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
'The first man to look to leeward was old Tom's son -- young Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Goodwins, they would find themselves a long way to leeward of the Gull buoy. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
To leeward the dory wallowed at the end of her painter, almost full of water. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Half a dozen men, working with frantic haste, were swinging a tender out to leeward. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The canoe of Captain Sawkins and that wherein I was were much to the leeward of the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
But, falling to leeward of it, he made Niuafo'ou, the curious volcanic island discovered by. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
The weather had been very squally, and we thought it probable she might have got to leeward. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
He could hoist out facts and figures as easily as you would fling a weevily biscuit to leeward. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
They could not be taken to windward nor to leeward, and therefore by the stern was the only alternative. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
The rebound of the water from the rocks caused the spray to fly half-way over the decks from to leeward. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Day-dawn, however, revealed her again on our track, though this time we had unfortunately fallen to leeward. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The Long Sand was to leeward, and finding that we were drifting that way the order was given to put the ship about. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
As I lived in the cabin, each plate, glass, or utensil that fell to leeward in a gale, was charged to my negligence. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
For a short distance the wolf slipped along parallel to the dog, but to leeward so that no scent betrayed his presence. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
The blue light was seen by the Aid, and she moved to leeward to pick up the lifeboat after she emerged from the breakers. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
"The ship's just sent up our recall, and she's bearing away now to pick us up to leeward when we cast off from here, sir.". From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
They ran to leeward of the breaker on Gully Ledge, and passed into smooth water under the protecting barrier of Seal Island. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
At length there was a startled cry, "Breakers to leeward!" and that discovery increased the excitement and terror a hundredfold. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Redmond said the algae have a tendency to accumulate along the edges of the leeward shore of the lake, where the water is shallow. From Wordnik.com. [Lake Needwood water has harmful algae] Reference
The boat tilted sharply, and a dash of spray leaped the bow and, changing back to water, ran down the leeward side of the cockpit. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Ramsgate lifeboat carried to leeward, gave the order to 'down foresail!' when well outside the wreck, and anchored E. by S. of her. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
All about the flaming ocean, except to the leeward, was a sea of faces, white and upturned, and rapt as with some unearthly vision. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
The anxious captain first tried the Walmer lifeboat, but she was too far to leeward, and would not have been able to fetch the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
They furnished us with eggs and milk; and, after our meal, we lay down on the leeward side of the town, to await the rising of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Therefore, though swept to leeward, they got sail on the lifeboat and got her on the starboard tack, ten men sheeting home the fore sheet. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
The Newfoundlanders and natives have of them a mortal terror, -- never going, if it can be avoided, nearer than half a mile, and then always on the leeward side. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Then Jim spoke, and his voice was as calm and deliberate as if he were in the cabin on the island, instead of a mile to leeward, driving to sea before a norther. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Then reaches to the leeward side, strewn by tides too fast to hold, steered by ropes and mother madness, father hurling sheets to sea until the bodies can be winched aboard. From Wordnik.com. [Cormorant] Reference
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