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leeward
1. Father said he recognized the place from boyhood, when his own father anchored in its leeward harbor during a fierce storm
2. positioned on the leeward and north side of the Desertas
3. It was a large warning buoy about fifty metres to leeward
4. With a mountain you always have a windward and leeward side
5. There is, of course, a leeward side and a windward side to
6. surviving, it would be in accessing the leeward side of the
7. I knew that if I could get into the leeward shadow, where
8. “That’s the leeward way
9. As we drew near to the leeward gate I could see sentries ringed along the top of the wall above us, watching us intently
10. The Tasa’Anna was under full sail headed along the cliffside wall of the leeward rocky headland
11. moods of the sea, its swell, its combers, its push and pull and leeward drag and described in
12. Acting on this warning no one answered a word, but after we had gone a little ahead, and the vessel was now lying to leeward, suddenly they fired two guns, and apparently both loaded with chain-shot, for with one they cut our mast in half and brought down both it and the sail into the sea, and the other, discharged at the same moment, sent a ball into our vessel amidships, staving her in completely, but without doing any further damage
13. When I arrived on the platform that morning, I saw the Island of Hawaii two miles to leeward, the largest of the seven islands making up this group
14. The second, stranded to leeward, held up for some days
15. He stared at the ship, which stayed to his leeward five or six miles off
16. About fifty miles short of Barbers Point, a base on the leeward side of Oahu, his crew spotted something
17. “I make it about twelve miles! Course sou’west, but they’re alterin’ to leeward!”
18. With the wind from the north-northwest, he wanted a bit more sea room to leeward
19. "Whew!" he whistled at last—"the squall's gone off to leeward, I think
20. Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land
21. Tashtego reporting that the whales had gone down heading to leeward, we confidently looked to see them again directly in advance of our bows
22. To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapour hovering over it, and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white rolling billows
23. The sudden exclamations of the crew must have alarmed the whale; and ere the boats were down, majestically turning, he swam away to the leeward, but with such a steady tranquillity, and making so few ripples as he swam, that thinking after all he might not as yet be alarmed, Ahab gave orders that not an oar should be used, and no man must speak but in whispers
24. Tall spouts were seen to leeward; and two boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were detached in pursuit
25. The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase
26. Yonder, to windward, all is blackness of doom; but to leeward, homeward—I see it lightens up there; but not with the lightning
27. It seemed that somewhat late on the afternoon of the day previous, while three of the stranger's boats were engaged with a shoal of whales, which had led them some four or five miles from the ship; and while they were yet in swift chase to windward, the white hump and head of Moby Dick had suddenly loomed up out of the water, not very far to leeward; whereupon, the fourth rigged boat—a reserved one—had been instantly lowered in chase
28. "He is heading straight to leeward, sir," cried Stubb, "right away from us; cannot have seen the ship yet
29. Soon all the boats but Starbuck's were dropped; all the boat-sails set—all the paddles plying; with rippling swiftness, shooting to leeward; and Ahab heading the onset
30. "An hour," said Ahab, standing rooted in his boat's stern; and he gazed beyond the whale's place, towards the dim blue spaces and wide wooing vacancies to leeward
31. So, so, I see him! there! there! going to leeward still; what a leaping spout!—Hands off from me! The eternal sap runs up in Ahab's bones again! Set the sail; out oars; the helm!"
32. Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes—the two parts of the wrecked boat having been previously secured by her—and then hoisting everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stun-sails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby-Dick
33. But soon, as if satisfied that his work for that time was done, he pushed his pleated forehead through the ocean, and trailing after him the intertangled lines, continued his leeward way at a traveller's methodic pace
34. When dusk descended, the whale was still in sight to leeward
35. There's a soft shower to leeward
36. Leeward! the white whale goes that way; look to windward, then; the better if the bitterer quarter
37. But he looked too nigh the boat; for as if bent upon escaping with the corpse he bore, and as if the particular place of the last encounter had been but a stage in his leeward voyage, Moby Dick was now again steadily swimming forward; and had almost passed the ship,—which thus far had been sailing in the contrary direction to him, though for the present her headway had been stopped
38. Setting sail to the rising wind, the lonely boat was swiftly impelled to leeward, by both oars and canvas
39. When the crew of the Bee, one of the schooners which was chartered by the Leander, refused to go in her, a number of officers from the ship, with Lewis at their head, came on board the Bee, and, after beating and cutting the men with sticks and sabres in the most brutal manner, dragged them on board the Leander, put them in irons under a strong guard, and kept them there until the moment of sailing, when they were sent on board the Bee, with orders to keep near and to leeward of the ship
40. She was pointing up the coast, her bowsprit gone and her forward mast broken about halfway down; she listed terribly to leeward, and every third or fourth wave washed entirely over her deck