The next instant the big boom and the heavy blocks swept over our heads, the main-sheet whipping past like a great coiling snake and the Mist heeling over with a violent jar.
The speedboat slowed down, turned in a wide and heeling circle, and ranged up alongside the launch at the gangway.
There was more running with the ball, far less kicking into touch, and no heeling out behind the scrimmage.
They were beamy boats of small displacement and great stability, and beat the rest of the fleet easily in a heeling breeze until 'Gareth' appeared.
Her position on the heeling boat irked her, and she remembered the headache he had cured and the soothing rest that resided in him.
The wind which had shifted a little to the north was still blowing stiffly, heeling both sloops over at a sharp angle.
The schooner swung to starboard, heeling sharply as she caught the wind abeam, and was in hot pursuit of her enemy before a full minute had passed.
Dred put down the tiller and drew in the sheet, and the boat, heeling over to the wind that now caught her abeam, met the waves splashing and dashing as it drove forward upon its other course.
One large schooner, heeling over before the wind, slid swiftly and silently past the Arundel.
She came to in most perfect style as she climbed the breast of each oncoming comber, heeling steeply to it the while and turning up a bold weather bow to meet its onslaught.
Being always to leeward, and heeling over with the wind, the ships had been struck again and again below the waterline, and many were only kept from sinking by nailing sheets of lead over the shot holes.
The wind was now more favourable, and having increased somewhat in strength, the Susan made her way briskly along, heeling over till the water ran along her scuppers.
He backed off a few feet, the muscles of his calves straining to maintain a purchase on the slippery, heeling decks.
There was that bottomless instant when it appeared that the heavily burdened vessel would never stop heeling over until it had turned turtle and plunged to the bottom.
The ship continued to drive at the mercy of the waves till about ten o'clock, when she stranded, broadside to the shore, heeling on her port side towards the sea.
The tide had been ebbing nearly an hour when she took the ground, and she broached to, leaving her broadside heeling over, and facing the beach.
About midnight, the wind had greatly increased, and the ship became so uneasy from her heeling to windward, that fears were entertained for the safety of those on board.
Before he had finished, the wind was again beginning to boom in the rigging of the four masts, and a stiff, obstinate wind was heeling the vessel to starboard.
The ship careened, a stiff southeaster heelingher to starboard.
At the commencement of the heeling position, however, the resistance from this source would be but trifling.
We had not long to wait for it; and in half an hour or so we were dashing through the water under close-reefed topsails, heeling over with the wind from the north-west till the water came rushing in through the lee ports.
She was heeling over on her side; and as the pumps were kept going, the water flowed out at the scuppers in a continuous stream.
After a succession of short tacks the channel straightened, and heeling far over with the strong wind on her quarter the pinkie ran into the open with the tawny surf hissing at her gunwale.
Meanwhile the Dido, broadside on and beaten mightily by the waves, was heeling as if she would turn over in the trough.
With this wind on her beam the Dido sailed fast, heeling smoothly, and sending the waves past her gunwale with a pleasant murmur.
Heeling more and more the "Topaze" turned completely on end, so that the whole length of her keel plates and her four propellers were out of water.
Ere long those on the submarine made out that the ship was aground and was heeling at a dangerous angle.
Just then the "Topaze" gave a sudden lurch to starboard, heeling so much that the line of men still remaining on board was broken.
A heavy gale had come on, and the ship was heeling over to her scuppers under it.
The ship flew through the water at a great rate, heeling over to her ports; but though at times it seemed as if the masts would go over the sides, still the captain held on.
The Sea Queen thundered on her course, heeling to the broad wash of the water.
I was on the windward side of the yacht, and she was heeling gently as she ran down the coastline under a full head of steam.
He had, amid the darkness of the night and the heeling of the ship to watch the movements of the threatening spar, and to dart forward as it receded and left a spot for an instant free from its attacks.
The 'Amberwitch' was heeling and toeing it to such an extent that, by sagging away to leeward, it became quite clear she was by no means having things her own way.
There was quite a good breeze blowing, and when we'd got all our sails hauled up and the leeboard down, we went flying along, heeling over till the lee gunwale raced through and under the water.
She was heeling over tremendously, sailing two knots to our one, and overhauling us fast.
The strange junk was coming up finely, heeling over and splashing through the water.
Heeling round on a port helm the Lena Knobloch turned from the approaching blast.
An uncommonly strong puff of wind struck the schooner heeling her far over to starboard.
