Luff finally solved the problem by assembling a large number of the watermarked stamps so that he was able to reconstruct the complete watermark, viz:-- E.
Luff stated, "It is my opinion that both the wove and laid papers are quite genuine and I think it is possible that both varieties might occur though there was only one lot sent out by the printers.
At that very moment I thought she seemed to luff and show some of her broadside; but a squall blotted her out and gave me hell with the tiller.
A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
Luff up a little more, and we'll run in near to that.
Henry Bums, with the wheel in hand and an eye to the luff of the sail, as of one not wholly inexperienced, made no reply to the other's somewhat patronizing manner; but a quiet smile played about the corners of his mouth.
He had engaged a sailor called Luff Williams to take them in his boat to the spot, a long sandy beach behind a high promontory some five or six miles from the city.
Put on ivery divilish stitch o' canvas yer tub 'll carry," said Terrence to Luff Williams.
Mr. Luff Williams, if ye want a whole skin over yer body pull about and sail down the coast like the divil was after ye!
This does not mean to luff so much at every putt as to dump the wind out of your sail, or attempt to sail so close to the wind as not to get its full power.
Always be ready to luff and take advantage of any little gust of wind, and it is astonishing the amount of windward gain a clever sailor makes in this way.
I'd just time to put the helm down, hoping to scrape clear of her, when I heard a crash and saw her bowsprit come sweeping along over our deck, tearing away the luff of the mainsail and knocking the port quarter-boat to pieces.
I was one of the crew of the second cutter then, and in the beautiful calm weather we used to take the doctor and the second luff out in this Sargassey Sea, which used to look sometimes as if we were floating about in green fields.
To luff round, or To luff alee, to make the extreme of this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head into the wind.
Luff upon luff, a luff tackle attached to the fall of another luff tackle.
Defn: A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
Luff tackle, a purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes.
Now's the time to make the most of your leg--Luff her up and shake her.
As this change brought the brig before the wind, and Spike was in no hurry to luff up on the other tack, the Swash soon ran over a mile of the distance she had already made, putting her back that much on her way to the Neck.
Luff you may, a little,--luff, or we shall crush him!
As Mr. Luff was not neglectful of his duty, it was not long before the Coquette approached her boats.
It is not an uncommon experience, especially in the Mediterranean, to run down a coast before a fresh breeze, and to find a perfect tornado blowing when you turn a corner and luff up under the land.
It is a long leg and a short one out of the harbour, and you get a heavy puff now and again from over the high land that brings your lee-rail level with the water, and makes you luff in a hurry.
A couple of steep combers that you have to luff up to knock all the way out of the boat and make her stagger; the next sea throws her head off the wind, while at the same time a heavy puff forces her lee-side under water.
Now you are no longer riding head first over the seas, but running free at a slashing pace, sheet in hand, watching the sea narrowly over your shoulder, ready to luff instantly if some specially dangerous monster should make it necessary.
If your course gives you a dangerous beam sea the best plan is to keep your luff until your port is well to leeward, and then up helm and run for it.
But a beam sea is the most dangerous sea of all, and when it is heavy you must always be ready either to luff up towards it, or to keep right away before it, as may be best.
With this increased spread of canvas we were able to make two knots an hour on the direct course to Bermuda, and to keep sufficient steerage way to luff up to an ugly sea.
The perpendicular of fore triangle should be measured from top of deck to where the line of luff of sail would cut mast.
When round, they came again upon even terms, as 'Livonia' had toluff and to lower her square-sail.
He has the luff of each foresail fitted with loops at regular intervals, after the manner of gaiter lacings, otherwise called 'lacing on the bight.
The best plan to adopt is to get the sheet in before the yacht's head is pointed as close as it will go to the wind, and then check out inch by inch till the luff of the sail near the tack has a slight inclination to lift.
For fastening the luff of the mainsail to the mast-hoops, instead of seizings he has used hanks, and has found them very handy and neat.
Luff a little, and keep his spar clear," cried our captain.
After some conversation on the subject, the captain ordered me to brace forward the yards, as far as our studding-sails would allow, and to luff nearer to the stranger.
Stand by to luff handsomely, so as to keep the boom as steady as possible.
The captain was particularly gracious to his visitor, going even to the length of shaking hands with him ere he passed out through the gangway, the first luff of course following suit, as in duty bound.
We had just reached this conclusion when Ryan and his party appeared returning, and in a few minutes the cutter ranged up alongside us to enable the second luff to make his report.
The captain and the first luff have, between them, evidently contrived to worm some intelligence out of the Portuguese.
Luff you may--a little--do not shave her too close.
At length he rather overdid it, a squall striking the boat so heavily that before he could luff and shake the wind out of the sail she had filled to the thwarts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "luff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beat; canvas; cloth; cringle; foot; head; leech; pinch; ply; rag; sail; shiver; tackle
