Down this channel we rushed, sheering now to port, now to starboard, as we followed its windings, the water becoming smoother with every fathom we proceeded.
She was fearfully close, but appeared to be at the moment sheering away from us.
Sheering cautiously out of the fairway, we come to anchor at Tail of the Bank to wait for our 'pier-head jumps.
Out of the mist a huge shadowy hull ranges alongside, the wash from her sheering cutwater hissing and spluttering on our broadside.
The fire had been hid by sheering towards the shore, and the latter was nearer, perhaps, than was desirable.
It was no sooner free from the incumbrance of the branches, than it swung into the stream, sheering quite close to the western shore, by the force of the current.
An hour later, the Nina came sheering up toward the admiral, with her commander in the rigging, evidently desirous of communicating some tidings of moment.
It was already dark, when the Pinta came sheering down upon the quarter of the Santa Maria, until she had got so near that her commander hailed without the aid of a trumpet.
And then, as the great gleaming fish, head up, came sheering along on its side, there was a quick dive of the steel clip, and the next second the splendid creature was in the bottom of the coble.
He kept the brig under short canvas for near two hours, sheeringabout in the same place, taking care to tell everything which spoke him that he had lost a man overboard.
This he did not attempt, therefore; but, sheering into one of the openings which the mate had rejected, he cut off quite half a mile in his distance.
They are running down in a body toward the wreck, though one of their boats does seem to be sheering out of the line, as if getting into our wake.
A sabre stroke severed Berkley's cheek-strap, sheeringthrough visor and button; and he swung his lance and drove it backward into a man's face.
In addition to the errors arising from these sources, we have also those due to the direction and force of the wind, the movement of the ship across the line of fire, and to sheering round a pivot when performing evolutions.
A shout from the men in the batteries interrupted his words; and then came a general cry that the pirates weresheering off.
Meantime, as best we can, we chase the sheering hydroplane ahead that seems endowed with every chameleon gift of the classic gods.
She looms up close on our quarter, a huge menacing bulk of sheering steel with the foam thundering under her bows and curling and shattering on her grey hull.
Wave counters wave and sets up a running break on the surface that draws the eye by its similarity to a sheering periscope; not for the first time we turn our glasses on the ripples, and scan the spurt of broken water in apprehension.
All eyes are centred on the narrowing space of clear water that separates us, on our high sheering stem that cuts through her out-flung side-wash.
Up stream and down, back and across, sheering in to the piers and wharves, the harbour traffic seems constantly to be scourged and hurried by the lash of an unseen taskmaster.
Also on Fridays and Saturdays, and on the vigils of feast days, and on most days in Lent, he had eaten only bread and boiled vegetables, such as could be found, and the fasting reminded him of the old days in Sheering Abbey.
Eleanor looked straight before her with more curiosity than religious fervour, but in her ear she heard Gilbert's deep voice softly chanting with the monks the psalms he had so often sung at Sheering Abbey.
But Stephen took it when I was lying ill of a wound inSheering Abbey and bestowed it upon another.
On Isla Water the yellow trout had not yet begun to jump; evening still lingered beyond the world's curved ruin; but the wild duck were coming in from the sea in twos and threes and sheering down into distant reaches of Isla Water.
The brig was sheering swiftly and giddily through a long, cresting swell.
By this time, now and then sheering to one side or the other to avoid a reef, but still hugging the wind and the land, we had got round Iona and begun to come alongside Mull.
Now that the tide had ebbed, the river mouth was about a dozen yards across, and a row of larger craft, sheering to and fro in the eddies, nearly filled the channel.
If it didn't hold, which is much more likely, it would check her while she drove across the bank, sheering athwart the stream, in danger of rolling over.
He saw the maddened monster sheering off out to sea again, and then Frank cried: "I'm coming, Andy!
Then, with a feeling of relief, Andy saw that they were sheering off, but very slowly.
Sheering out where the Montmorency roars over a precipice in a shining cataract, the canoes glided across St. Charles River among the forests of masts heaving to the tide below the beetling heights of Cape Diamond, Quebec.
But at that instant it tightened with a tremendous jerk, the boat sheeringsharply into the crest of a heavy sea.
Every once in a while it would hold back till the tow-rope tautened, then come leaping ahead and sheering and dropping slack till it threatened to shove its nose under the huge whitecaps which roared so hungrily on every hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
