"Leeward side" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the model's path through the water will be, more or less, an arc of a circle. Whether the boat sails toward the wind, or, in other words, in a curve the center of the circle of which is on the same side of the boat as the wind, or in a curve the center of the circle of which is on the opposite or leeward side, will depend upon the formation ...
— Boys' Book of Model Boats • Raymond Francis Yates
... the water must have curled over in a perfect deluge, for we could hear it hiss and roar amongst the cordage on the leeward side, and ...
— Sail Ho! - A Boy at Sea • George Manville Fenn
... there is room to show skill and seamanship, and if you don't in reality go as quick as a steamer, you seem to go faster, if there is no visible object to measure your speed by, and that is something, for the white foam on the leeward side rushes by you in rips, raps, and rainbows ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... wildest confusion. Hence it fell on the earth like a great snow-storm driven by the wind. It drifted into all hollows; it was not so thick on, or it was entirely absent from, the tops of hills; it formed tails, precisely as snow does, on the leeward side of all obstructions. ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... from their ramparts, sent back a shower of stones and arrows in reply. A Huron, bolder than the rest, ran forward with firebrands to burn the palisade, and others followed with wood to feed the flame. But it was stupidly kindled on the leeward side, without the protecting shields designed to cover it; and torrents of water, poured down from the gutters above, quickly extinguished it. The confusion was redoubled. Champlain strove in vain to restore order. Each ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr. |
