Jacobsen, superintending the operation, ordered them to throw the halyards down on deck and stand by, then went for'ard on the lee-bow and joined Griffiths. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ahead, and well on the lee-bow, appeared a jagged rock-point. ❋ Unknown (2010)
-- On the 20th of November (cruising in latitude 0dg 40min S., longitude 119dg 0min W.), a shoal of whales was discovered off the lee-bow. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)
I felt the thrill of those forward leaps, heard that persuasive song the foam sings under the lee-bow, saw the flashing harmonies of sea and sky; but sensuous perception was deadened by nervousness. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
-- A few minutes after noon, an iceberg was reported on the lee-bow. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)
Lee-board and rudder are of oak, walnut, or chestnut; the rudder extends 3½ ft. to 4 ft. below the keel, and, in giving lateral resistance, balances the lee-board, which is thrust down forward under the lee-bow. ❋ Various (N/A)
The same course was steered until next day about noon, when land was seen on the lee-bow. ❋ Marmaduke Park (N/A)
The man at the fore-top looked around him; it was a moment of intense anxiety; then waving his hat, he cried out, "A sail, on the lee-bow!" ❋ Marmaduke Park (N/A)
It happened to be my middle watch, and about three o'clock, when a man upon the forecastle bawls out: "Breakers ahead, and land upon the lee-bow;" I looked out, and it was so sure enough. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Judge of my sensation when I saw the frowning rocks of Arran, scarcely half a mile distant, on our lee-bow. ❋ Marmaduke Park (N/A)
By this time she was within half a mile, and he saw some of her people standing forwards on her deck and waiving for him to come under their lee-bow. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
-- He continued to edge down towards her, until he had brought her about two points under his lee-bow, having it in his power to spring his luff, or bear away. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Pushing, shoving, and hauling, greeting old friends here and warning old enemies there, Commodore Tom Platt led his little fleet well to leeward of the general crowd, and immediately three or four men began to haul on their anchors with intent to lee-bow the 'We're Heres'. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
The proas tacked, too, and, laying up much nearer to the wind than we did, appeared as if about to close on our lee-bow. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
The captain and master remained at the binnacle watching the compass; and when the sails were again full, she had broken off two points, and the point of land was only a little on the lee-bow. ❋ Various (1897)
I've been beating to windward all my life, but I see the harbour on my lee-bow at last as plainly as I ever saw Peel, and now ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
