I saw a remora, a little fish called echineis by the Greeks, and near it a tall ship that did not get ahead an inch, though she was in the offing with top and top-gallants spread before the wind.
In the morning we had an offing of at least a hundred and twenty miles, and nothing was in sight.
Half an hour afterwards I got under weigh, and as I steamed about in the offing I saw the Greek frigate coming round the point.
A sail was seen standing out of the harbour, steering towards us, for the purpose, evidently, of getting a good offingbefore nightfall.
Mr. Murray ascended the highest of the hummocks with a compass, but did not see any lands in the offing further out than the Keppel Isles.
As the morning mist cleared away from the water, there in the offing was the English frigate that had been hovering and flaunting her challenging flag for the past three days.
And all this time the enemy was in the offing prepared and eager.
Mr. Murray seems to have given Number 2 offing the name of Watering Island.
Saw a sloop in the offing standing in to the Bay made signal for all persons to return on board.
Stood on through theOffing Isles of Northumberland Islands.
This cape is due east-south-east with a moderateoffing from Cape Sir William Grant, distant by log 70 miles.
By this time Ned had secured at least a mile of offing but the sea grew every moment heavier.
At this time we had so very little wind, that all the boats were employed to tow us out of the bay, and what wind there was lasted only long enough to give us an offing of two or three leagues, when it fell dead calm.
These orders being distributed, we had little doubt of arriving soon upon our intended station; as we expected, upon the increasing our offing from Quibo, to fall in with the regular trade-wind.
From that time until the 14th of February, Hood maintained his position in sight of the French fleet, which remained cruising in the offingand to the southward.
The highest land in sight here is called Bonthain hill, and when a ship is in the offing at the distance of two or three miles from the land, she should bring this hill north, or N.
In the offing a chain of islands, dark, crumbling shapes, stand out in the everlasting sunlit haze like the remnants of a wall breached by the sea.
He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said "Yes," without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.
One day, coming ashore, I saw him standing on the quay; the water of the roadstead and the sea in the offing made one smooth ascending plane, and the outermost ships at anchor seemed to ride motionless in the sky.
We accordingly passed in about half-way between Alderney and the mainland, maintaining an offing from the latter of about eight miles, and took in our royals and topgallantsails.
Failing of this, however, he went off the land again, in time to get an offing before the return of day, and to save the wind.
Then he may be bound to Bastia; in which case he is wise in getting an offing before the zephyr sets in for the afternoon.
After looking around them quite a minute in silence, the men dropped their oars and began to pull from under the point, with the intention of making an offingbefore they set their little lugs.
All this was done tranquilly, as if the appearance of the stranger in the offing gave no trouble to any in le Feu-Follet.
A light air from the southward, which lasted from eight to nine o'clock, allowed the frigate to get somewhat more of an offing the while, placing her seemingly beyond the reach of danger.
Fate like a muffled steersman sails with that Norland gloom; The Snowflake in the offing is neck and neck with doom.
We shall make it ere the morning Rolls the fog from strait and bluff; Where the offing crimsons eastward There is anchorage enough.
It had been observed that a ship which disappears in the offing seems to be going downhill; and many people feared that if they should happen thus to descend too far away from the land they could never get back again.
Three mountain peaks loomed up in the offing before them, and as they drew nearer it appeared that those peaks belonged to one great mountain; wherefore the pious Admiral named the island Trinidad.
The swell from the offing tumbled in towards the land, in long purple undulations, and as it broke on the rocky coast beyond the promontory, the noise was like the distant roar of a populous town, borne on the swell of the breeze.
The Tom Bowline from London has been becalmed in the offing the whole day; I saw her from the piazza some time ago.
There's a schooner at this moment making an offing from the anchorage where, as I've always told you, we'd been wiser to pitch our camp.
When you sighted him, he had made a careful offing of the southern reefs, and had hauled up close to his wind.
If we are in the offing now, and are to be in the offing when we reach Montauk, there must be two such places.
There is no offinguntil the pilot is discharged, and when he's discharged there is nothing but offing.
Some time before they arrived at their port, they perceived some ships in the offing that seemed to be pursuing them.
And if so, Captain Benbow will have reason to wish that he had got a good offing from the shore before it came on.
He had not been aboard yesterday evening two minutes before he got under weigh, and must have gained a good offing before the gale came on.
Far in the quiet offing the lights of a fishing-fleet twinkled like a line of jewels through the haze.
The King, persuaded by Richards, ordered one down from Cawsand, and had already used it once or twice to meet his larger craft somewhere in a good offing and tranship their cargoes.
