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"Weatherly" Quotes from Famous Books

... Composed by Ciro Pinsuti to Weatherly's words.—With a pretty refrain, but for the most part made up of a series of common phrases. It is to be obtained in B flat, C, and ...

— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 • Various

... breeze, and they were some time in reaching us. One was a large boat with barked canvas, going well and weatherly, but the other, plainly a ship's lifeboat, hung heavy in the wind, and presently her crew lowered sail and came at us under oars. The big boat reached us first, her steersman taking every inch out of the fickle breeze. Plainly these were no deep-water sailor-men, ...

— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone

... length, against their will and better judgment, were shamed into starting. After all, it was no great distance they were going; with ordinary luck they might be back before much wind came. And if the worst came to the worst and they were caught out at sea, why, the boats were weatherly craft, manned by the best of seamen, and an hour or two at the most would see them fight their way back to port. It was all in the day's work. Nothing venture, nothing win. If one may take a risk, so ...

— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

Words linked to "Weatherly" : sailing vessel, weatherliness, sailing ship