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"Yaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... day, notwithstanding which the ship was under all three royals, and fore and main topgallant studdingsails, her course being south-east. There was a heavy and steep sea following the ship on her port quarter, which not only made her motions exceedingly uneasy, but also caused her to yaw wildly from time to time, despite the utmost efforts of two men at the wheel to keep ...

— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood

... "Yaw. Maybe you don't know, hey, Jim Tapp? You hear about dot cut trapeze? Aha! It vas dis poy who discovered ...

— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness

... when I'm holding down the wheel—perhaps. The screw is always edging a ship off, and the lighter the ballast the wider the yaw. So you have to keep hitching her over a point to starboard. You trust to me to keep that point, and I trust to God that the north stays where ...

— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath

... began to yaw," continued Darrow. "The first time she came about would have heeled her enough to shut the chest. Now came the turn of ...

— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... to yaw," continued Darrow. "The first time she came about would have heeled her enough to shut the chest. Now came the turn of your ...

— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... studding-sail went under water; and as she came to, the boom stood up at an angle of forty five degrees. She had evidently more on her than she could bear; yet it was in vain to try to take it in—the clewline was not strong enough; and they were thinking of cutting away, when another wide yaw and a come-to, snapped the guys, and the swinging boom came in, with a crash, against the lower rigging. The outhaul block gave way, and the topmast studding-sail boom bent in a manner which I never before ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana