"Lee side" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The lee side offered a smooth bay. It was but a few minutes' work to unload and haul the canoe into the tall rushes, which afforded ample protection against the cold wind. It was three hours before the wind went down, when the ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop
... chimney, and to feel very snug in bed. When I got up it was still blowing a full gale, and looking out of my window I could just catch a glimpse of the masts and funnels of a large steamer which seemed to be lying under the lee side of the island for shelter. What she was precisely I could not see enough of her to say, nor when we met at breakfast, did the doctor know ...
— The Man From the Clouds • J. Storer Clouston
... the lee side, and wrapped her in a McCallum plaid, and brought her some magazines from his own stateroom. Then he ...
— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors
... ice-cliffs, and selected a small hummock—a heap of masses that had been thrown or crushed up earlier in the winter, covered with snow, and formed into a solid mound. The light air that blew over the frozen plain was scarcely worth taking into account, nevertheless the Indian chose the lee side of the hummock and then began to try his "prentice hand" at the ...
— The Walrus Hunters - A Romance of the Realms of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... him shift along for a couple of inches, and I was just about to order him back—the words were trembling on the tip of my tongue—when I was struck with great force by a heavy figure that had leaped through the air upon me from the lee side. It was one of the crew. He pinioned my right arm so that I could not withdraw my hand from my pocket, and at the same time clapped his other hand over my mouth. Of course, I could have struggled away from him and freed my hand or gotten my mouth clear so that I might ...
— Tales of the Fish Patrol • Jack London
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