"Veering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... point where the trail led upward sharply, veering around the shoulder of a hill and dropping precipitously into ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer
... slacken down the peak halliards; while they brought the boat up and took in one reef in the mainsail; but the word was still "helm a-larboard," and the boat's head had followed the wind round a whole quarter of the compass within the next ten minutes. We went off before the breeze, but it continued veering round for the next hour; so that when we got fairly into the Channel, the predictions of the seamen were completely fulfilled; for the moon had set, the wind was from the east, and a hurrying drift had covered all ...
— Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 • Various
... prearranged scene, the fog-curtain parted. There loomed silently and swiftly the Laughing Lass. Down she bore upon the greater vessel until it seemed as if she must ram; but all the time she was veering to windward, and now she ran into the wind with a castanet rattle of sails. So close aboard was she that the eager eyes of Uncle Sam's men peered down upon her empty decks—for she was void ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... a cable's length away, wallowed a great black shape. The mighty bow swept veering past her quarter, then her stern, and clear of it by no ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various
... upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes off the waves, the King of Crete Held lofty commune with the dark Sea-god. His brows were crowned with victory, his cheeks Were flushed with triumph, but the mighty ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
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