"To leeward" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to windward on the horizon's verge; To leeward, stormy shadows, violet-black, And the wide sea between A vast unfurrowed field of windless green; The stormy shadows flicker on the track Of phantom ...
— Silhouettes • Arthur Symons
... where and O where, is our treasured Ozone? O where, and O where can it be? From London to leeward 'tis utterly gone, To windward but ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, Sept. 27, 1890 • Various
... of white smoke on the schooner, and in a minute our foremast was sliced through at the cap, and the foretopmast, with its great square sails, and their hamper, was banging on the deck, while the jibs and staysail fell into the sea to leeward, and the big ship fell off her course and nosed ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... strongly affected by the galley tradition. There is here found, on the one hand, the prescription of the line of battle,—a single column of ships formed in each other's wake,—with the provision that if the enemy is to leeward, and awaits attack, the headmost squadron of the British shall steer for the headmost of the enemy's ships. This accords with the general tenor of the later Instructions; but there occurs elsewhere, and previously, ...
— Types of Naval Officers - Drawn from the History of the British Navy • A. T. Mahan
... field; but whether originating in a current or the change of wind, or another field being driven down upon it, I could not tell: Be that as it might, out we must get,—unless we wanted to be cracked like a walnut-shell between the drifting ice and trio solid belt to leeward; so sending a steady hand to the helm,—for these unusual phenomena had begun to make some of my people lose their heads a little, no one on board having ever seen a bit of ice before,—I stationed myself in the bows, while Mr. Wyse ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)
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