Westing

I'z just "westing". . . some bears hibernate longer than others. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Here we were, well abreast and reeling off westing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ordinarily this lavatarial dereliction would have caught Captain Cullen's eye and vocabulary, but in the present his mind was filled with making westing, to the exclusion of all other things not contributory thereto. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not alone were they nimble because of the westing, but a benignant sun was shining down and limbering their stiff bodies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All Saturday and Saturday night the Mary Rogers raced her westing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Well, this is running your westing down if anybody should ride up in a go-devil and ask you." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Powers of Darkness for a bit of westing, for a slant to take him around. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The scowls were for God, and with every chew he reiterated the sole thought of his existence, which was make westing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, anyway, he had made his westing and fooled God. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He, in turn, was haunted by one thought of action, a sailing direction for the Horn: Whatever you do, make westing! make westing! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Never a day does the gray thin, or the snow-squalls cease that we do not sight ships, west-bound like ourselves, hove-to and trying to hold on to the meagre westing they possess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But she could not come to and make westing at the same time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whether the mate's face was clean or dirty had no bearing upon westing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The regular passage is far to the east around Staten Island, which means a loss of westing, and here, at the tip of the world, where the great west wind, unobstructed by any land, sweeps round and around the narrow girth of earth, westing is the thing that has to be fought for mile by mile and inch by inch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Secretly, he pledged himself anew to the Powers of Darkness, if they would let him make westing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the old days the navigators used to strive as far south as 64 degrees or 65 degrees, into the Antarctic drift ice, hoping, in a favouring spell, to make westing at a prodigious rate across the extreme-narrowing wedges of longitude. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He blasphemes God "for sending such bitter weather" and pledges himself "to the Powers of Darkness if they would let him make westing." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The title derives from an old mariner's warning to those who dared to round the Horn in the days of wooden ships — "Whatever you do, make westing! make westing!" — in other words, do everything you can to keep heading west or your vessel will never enter the Pacific Ocean. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cullen coolly enters in the ship's log the unfortunate accidents while the Mary Rogers makes westing at a good nine knots. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the entire data set, the median westing for a track measurement was 69W. ❋ Unknown (2007)