And yet we were making progress all the time, tacking across broad England like an unweatherly vessel on a wind; approaching our destination, not openly, but by a sort of flying sap.
Tacking on proved a more difficult matter than we had anticipated, owing to the fact that our carpenter had used cypress for the framework.
Then we thought of tacking the curtains top and bottom, and from this the idea evolved.
It was a catboat, quite far off, tacking down from the Headland.
He dodged back and forth between our boats, tacking right and left as quick as anything I ever saw, and just slipped by us.
The yachts were now strung out in line along the course, tacking back and forth, and making for a small naphtha launch anchored down the bay at the five-mile mark.
At last Mrs. Somerville, hertacking finished, got up and took the work from Nellie's hands.
Say I thought oftacking chintz on and told you," she said.
That great lumbering Rolls-Royce went tacking and skidding round the corner below my garden-room.
It was late that night when Miss Mapp felt that she was physically incapable of tacking on a single poppy more to the edge of her skirt, and went to the window of the garden-room where she had been working, to close it.
She herself had taken the jacket for decoration, and was just tacking the first rose on to the collar, when she looked out of the window, and what she saw caused her needle to fall from her nerveless hand.
We cannot suppose that the movement of tacking in succession was performed by two fleets, each of over a hundred sail, with absolute uniformity.
We hear, too, of fleets tacking together, which presupposes that they were so placed as to allow them freedom of movement, and that there was some system by which a general order could be conveyed.
As her crew were tacking her, or altering her course in some other way, she heeled over.
Spanish fleet came round the western side of the island, tacking against the westerly wind.
The course followed by the White Squadron was carrying it away to leeward, whence it could not return except by tacking against the wind.
Tacking had to be resorted to many times, and each mile they gained was well won.
As Bobolink sang out, the worst was yet to come when they made the Radway, and had to ascend against a head wind that would necessitate skilful tacking to avoid an overturn.
Sometimes the wind is not dead ahead, and yet in such a direction that the yacht cannot proceed except bytacking once in a while.
If the admiral would have any of the ships to make sail or endeavour by tacking or otherwise to gain the wind of the enemy, he will put up a red flag upon the spritsail, topmast shrouds, forestay, or fore topmast-stay.
We have the signal for a squadron breaking the enemy's line, but only in order to rejoin the main body, and we have the simple method of parrying the move by tacking with an equal number of ships.
And when from a line ahead, the squadron of the second in command leading, the admiral would immediately form the line on the contrary tack by tacking or veering together, the squadron of the third in command will then become the van.
It will be seen that by breaking the line in this order the enemy's van ships will not be able to assist either their centre or rear withouttacking or wearing for that purpose.
Finally there are signals for tacking in succession either from the van or the rear, which must have given the fleet a quite unprecedented increase of tactical mobility.
Benedicite, and is laid agane be tacking of a dog vnder thy left oxster in thi richt hand, and casting the same in his mouth, and speking the word Maikpeblis.
A glutton for work and in church twice every Sunday; but his work was hedge-tacking and odd jobs, and he never done either in a way to get any lasting fame.
And the white spray of the bar tossing high, and across the spray the white-belted squadron tacking and filling futilely.
Tis true I can tell of blockades evaded and corvettes slipped, of customs officers bedevilled, of tricks on slow-tacking junks, and of dancing with creoles under the moon.
Try tacking a pocket on the under side of your ironing board to keep your holder, stand and sheet of sand paper in.
Yachts can be moored against the south bank above the bridge, but should not be left unguarded, as the tide runs strong, and wherries tacking through the bridge often jam up against the bank.
The river is getting uncommonly pretty," said Wynne, "and this slow tacking enables me to see it to advantage, eh!
We reached the dyke in half an hour, tacking in that narrow channel with great celerity.
Coxswains often found themselves in awkward predicaments to avoid such itinerant craft, more so when barges were under sail against a head wind, and were tacking from shore to shore.
She was tackingright across his course (Oxford had just gone ahead after having been led by a clear length through Hammersmith Bridge).
When vessels arrive off the bar, should the wind or tide be adverse to entering the port, good anchorage will he found in from five to eight fathoms outside the bar; Tacking Point being shut in by Peaked Hill Point.
At the back of Tacking Point rises a small stream of fresh water, which flows into the lagoon.
Then down the coast, tacking close to shore, slowly swam a little sloop, white-winged like some snowy sea fowl.
He drew his cutlass belt to another buckle hole, roused his dozing crew, and in a quarter of an hour El Nacional was tacking swiftly down coast in a stiff landward breeze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tacking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
