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windward
1. commanders, operating in the Gulf of Mexico and the Windward
2. With a mountain you always have a windward and leeward side
3. Windward: into the wind; toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
4. There is, of course, a leeward side and a windward side to
5. And what I was looking at was the windward
6. It seems that savvy companies like Windward Reports have recognized the talent of
7. Meantime the oars were got out in order to reach the Faroes, which were about thirty miles dead to windward, but after about nine hours' hard work they had to desist, and, putting out a sea-anchor, they took shelter under the canvas boat-cover from the cold wind and torrential rain
8. At 10:50 in the evening, that electric light reappeared three miles to windward of the frigate, just as clear and intense as the night before
9. And a passage which was abundantly broad with the wind in their favor was likely to seem a great deal less so if they were forced to beat to windward the whole way out
10. “If that lad has friends along up to windward, I want to know about it
11. They’d spent most of the night regaining their formation—now only three columns, with just three ships in the one to windward
12. In their place, he’d have fought hard for the wind gauge, holding position up to windward where his pursuers would have found it all but impossible to close with him
13. It was clearly one of the ironclads, and he rather doubted she was so far to windward of her consorts because of bad navigation
14. Challenger had been well up to windward, and the savage gust front had hit her first, with no more than a minute or two’s warning
15. Saint Ahndru was a fifty-four, marginally more heavily gunned than Tide, but Captain Sir Lywys Audhaimyr’s fifty-six-gunned Riptide was the most powerful unit of the escort and Captain Ohkamohto had her positioned up to windward
16. She was a mile and a half to windward and perhaps that far northwest of the transports, perfectly positioned to run down to them with the wind in case of emergency
17. She’s two-masted, square-rigg’d on both Main an’ Fore—which drives fair enough in a quarterin’ Wind but is well-nigh useless when sailin’ to Windward
18. A large, relatively unencumbered NAV may be an anchor to windward, both for the company with honest and reasonably competent management and for the OPMI who holds its common stock
19. When research department forecasts prove to be overly optimistic, as many do, the analyst often has no anchor to windward, as would exist were the shares recommended on some other basis than merely estimates of future flows
20. As I stepped out of my apartment into the fog, a parade of great dark elephants went by on Windward Avenue
21. If the wind is constant but the swell and waves decreasing you can be fairly certain that land lies to windward
22. For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyage—beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him,—poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin, convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern, for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say, "Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can
23. Oh, my pipe! hard must it go with me if thy charm be gone! Here have I been unconsciously toiling, not pleasuring—aye, and ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward, and with such nervous whiffs, as if, like the dying whale, my final jets were the strongest and fullest of trouble
24. Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward
25. In shape, the Sleet's crow's-nest is something like a large tierce or pipe; it is open above, however, where it is furnished with a movable side-screen to keep to windward of your head in a hard gale
26. Hardly had they pulled out from under the ship's lee, when a fourth keel, coming from the windward side, pulled round under the stern, and showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect in the stern, loudly hailed Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, to spread themselves widely, so as to cover a large expanse of water
27. Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him
28. He loaded it, and rammed home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, "Down, down all, and give way!—there they are!"
29. So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together
30. But taking advantage of his windward position, he again seized his trumpet, and knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was a Nantucketer and shortly bound home, he loudly hailed—"Ahoy there! This is the Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean! and this time three years, if I am not at home, tell them to address them to—"
31. From the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the excited seamen
32. But as she was so far to windward, and shooting by, apparently making a passage to some other ground, the Pequod could not hope to reach her
33. "How it was exactly," continued the one-armed commander, "I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale's; that went off to windward, all fluking
34. Though lifted to the very top of the cranes, the windward quarter boat (Ahab's) did not escape
35. Yonder, to windward, all is blackness of doom; but to leeward, homeward—I see it lightens up there; but not with the lightning
36. It seemed that somewhat late on the afternoon of the day previous, while three of the stranger's boats were engaged with a shoal of whales, which had led them some four or five miles from the ship; and while they were yet in swift chase to windward, the white hump and head of Moby Dick had suddenly loomed up out of the water, not very far to leeward; whereupon, the fourth rigged boat—a reserved one—had been instantly lowered in chase
37. The recall signals were placed in the rigging; darkness came on; and forced to pick up her three far to windward boats—ere going in quest of the fourth one in the precisely opposite direction—the ship had not only been necessitated to leave that boat to its fate till near midnight, but, for the time, to increase her distance from it
38. Leeward! the white whale goes that way; look to windward, then; the better if the bitterer quarter
39. Part of the male population were hard at work ruthlessly chopping down fences and even whole huts which were near the fire and on the windward side
40. "Hark! Don't you hear the grinding of the shingle away over the port bow? As soon as the sound comes from windward we'll have her on the port tack, and thus we'll clear Boulder Ledge
41. "Ease off the main-sheet!" cried he, as he turned his ear to windward
42. The enemy being to windward, had the advantage of engaging us at his own distance; which was so great that, for the first half hour, we did not use our carronades, and at no moment was he within the complete effect of our musketry or grape
