In turn, the talking man of the windward coast, the talking man of the leeward coast, and the talking man of the mountain villages, each backed by his group of lesser talking men and chiefs, arose and made oration.
This was the dank, fat, savage island of New Gibbon, lying fifty miles to leeward of Choiseul.
This establishment having proved of such advantage to Antigua, and the rest of the Leeward Islands, his majesty, George II.
That of 1707 was also very severe, being considered one of the most violent ever experienced in the Leeward West India Islands, although Antigua suffered more than any of the neighbouring colonies.
For if it do, the broken bones o' my soul will lie slimy an' rotten on the reefs t' leewardthrough all eternity.
The Chinese we had in the boat advised me to follow them, and he would take us to Macao by the leeward passage.
I close-reefed my sails, and kept tack and tack 'till daylight, when we were happy to find we had drifted very little to leeward of our situation in the evening.
Bore up, and stood towards them, and made signals to induce them to come within hail; on nearing them, they bore up, and passed to leeward of the islands.
As darkness came on we undertook to round the point to gain the leeward shore of the peninsula and thus be protected from the force of the wind.
We would then get to the leeward of him and slowly advance the machine; Mr. Akeley in the middle and Stephenson and I on each side with our double-barreled cordite rifles.
If they had passed to theleeward side they would have got our wind and trouble would have been unavoidable.
Meanwhile, the brig had dropped some six miles to leewardduring the fight, and her crew had made the best of the opportunity by endeavouring to get some jury-spars aloft.
Keep the chase upon your weather bow; she must not be allowed to get to leeward of us.
By this time we were within three-quarters of a mile of her, and now that she was no longer driven to leewardby her sails, we neared her rapidly.
I therefore determined to get well to leeward of the spot where my calculations indicated that I ought to find them, and from there work to windward on an easy bowline, making stretches of some twenty-six miles in length.
They will not afford us an atom of protection, while they will make her sag away to leeward like a barge!
There is a shoal running off towards the starboard shore about west from the leeward shore, half-way up the bottom is a fine sand.
Bore away to leeward of the Three Kings and in search of wood and water, sent boat ashore, lost 4 oars overboard.
She is too far to leeward to meddle with us, however, and we are pretty certain there is nothing between her and the ships off the town that can do us any harm.
As soon as it was perceived that all the ships were likely to be led far to leeward in chase, the English officers felt the necessity of acting for themselves.
In a short time she drove past this point, perhaps a hundred fathoms to leeward of it.
The smoke of her gun was sailing off to leeward in a little cloud, and signals were again flying at her main-royal-mast-head.
Still, as she lay less than a mile outside of the lugger though now dead to leeward all that distance, she was to be watched; and one of the seamen, he in the rigging, rarely had his eyes off her a minute at a time.
Therefore I will only suppose that the enemy's fleet being to leeward standing close upon a wind, and that I am nearly ahead of them standing on the larboard tack.
Cochrane to the squadron under his command upon the Leeward Islands station.
But if the more numerous fleet is to leeward it ought none the less to leave its rear astern, because the wind may shift in the fight.
It would only work when the two fleets were exactly parallel at the moment of bearing down--as was made apparent at the battle of Malaga, where the French from leeward almost succeeded in dividing Rooke's fleet as it bore down.
Accordingly we find Nelson issuing a general order, with the object apparently of removing the ambiguity, and of rendering any confusion between starboard and larboard and leeward and windward impossible.
He went to attack several boats, which were keeping to leeward under the shelter of a fort; but scarcely did they perceive themselves to be attacked, when they fled to the shore and abandoned their canoes.
During storms the sheep commonly huddle together to the leewardof a cliff.
They precisely parallel the wind-current and have grown to leeward from the shelter of a boulder or other wind-break.
Apparently an adventurous tree makes a successful stand behind the boulder; then its seeds or those of other trees proceed to form a crowding line to the leeward in the shelter thus afforded.
Permanently their limbs stream to leeward together, with fixed bends and distortions as though changed to metal in the height of a storm.
The coast-line to leeward of the yacht, on which the wind is blowing.
Now go about pitching the tent, placing it so the entrance will be to leeward of the prevailing winds; avoid these by keeping away from the high hills.
With the open side pitched to leeward one gets perfect ventilation and warmth.
Build the fire toleeward and within four feet of the bed.
I started to get in, but as the two insides of the crook were to leeward of me, I found myself hitting the end of the stone pier rather hard while the stern of the ship rested gracefully on the jetty.
It seems that as we came to the wind, the cabin stove fetched way to leeward and capsized, scattering the lighted coals.
A little to leeward of this was a small cluster of islands, where we were going to refit, abounding with delicious fruits, and peopled by a race almost wholly unsophisticated by intercourse with strangers.
But, by seamen generally, the leeward entrance is preferred, as the wind is extremely variable inside the reef.
Within a few years past, missionaries from the Society group have settled among the Leeward Islands, where the natives have treated them kindly.
The shore was too close by; and if they continued to veer to leeward both must go aground, to the utter demoralization of the delicate craft.
He had purposely come up from behind, and had chosen the leeward side of the boat in advance.
General Beckwith, Commander of His Majesty's Forces in the Leeward Islands, addressed to Lord Viscount Castlereagh.
The whole of the British Windward and Leeward Island Colonies (p.
At St. Thomas, having all the mails from the Windward and Leeward Islands on board, and having there got the European mail from Laguayra, &c.
They put back, and passing to leeward of the Fusilier, strike the flag half-mast high, as a sign that the boat is to join them.
One side--that to leeward of the prevailing wind--is left open, to allow for an entrance and the escape of smoke.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leeward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
