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1. "Larboard your helm," cried the captain to the steersman
2. The Young Amelia left it three-quarters of a league to the larboard, and kept on for Corsica
3. “Come a quarter point to larboard and increase to half ahead,” he said quietly
4. “Quarter point to larboard and half ahead, aye, Sir!” PO Fyrgyrsyn responded, and if there was any doubt in his voice, Bahrns couldn’t hear it
5. The admiral and his flag lieutenant sat on HMS Destiny’s sternwalk with their chairs cocked back and their heels resting on the rail while a spectacular tropical sun settled into the sea off the galleon’s larboard beam
6. There was no point; Thunderer was firmly aground, listing perhaps three degrees to larboard, on a shoal which appeared on none of their charts
7. She does have a list to larboard; that’s one reason I’m sure she’s fast aground
8. “Come another point to larboard!” he snapped
9. Sickle’s captain had obviously reserved at least a few guns, loaded with shell rather than shot, for exactly that chance, and a pair of thirty-pounder shells had ripped effortlessly through Bayonet’s larboard side and exploded inside her
10. Thank God the wind had strengthened! With that stronger northwesterly coming in across his ships’ larboard quarters, his copper-bottomed galleons could make good better than five knots—almost six
11. “Looks like at least thirty ’r forty galleons, four points off the larboard bow!” the lookout shouted down after making the best estimate he could
12. Dreadnought’s entire larboard side erupted in smoky, rolling thunder
13. The midmorning sun was climbing towards noon as HMS Destiny and the rest of her squadron made their way close-hauled on the larboard tack between Hardship Shoal and Hog Island
14. “Lights on the larboard bow!”
15. “Ship on the larboard bow!”
16. A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the Orion had run back to Toulon
17. It hit her larboard side and glanced off in an inky jet that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of Black Smoke, from which the ironclad drove clear
18. But the directions he had given us about keeping a yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to the larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg insisted that the yellow warehouse—our first point of departure—must be left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say it was on the starboard
19. Starbuck! larboard boat there, ahoy! a word with ye, sir, if ye please!"
20. "Wants with it?" said Flask, coiling some spare line in the boat's bow, "did you never hear that the ship which but once has a Sperm Whale's head hoisted on her starboard side, and at the same time a Right Whale's on the larboard; did you never hear, Stubb, that that ship can never afterwards capsize?"
21. The boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side, where fluke chains and other necessaries were already prepared for securing him
22. This way and that her yards were swung round; starboard and larboard, she continued to tack; now she beat against a head sea; and again it pushed her before it; while all the while, her masts and yards were thickly clustered with men, as three tall cherry trees, when the boys are cherrying among the boughs
