This course was taken to get to windward of the ostriches, in the hope of having a shot at them as they ran up the wind.
As they journeyed on, so offensive grew the smell that a halt was made, and a resolution passed without a dissenting voice, that they should turn to the east and get to windward of this offensive odour, still unexplained.
They were curving around just sufficiently to avoid the hunters, and yet get to the windward of them.
Two ships of war were always cruising to windwardand leeward.
It was on the windward side of the island, and only for a month or six weeks in the year was the weather pleasant.
Once to windward all doubt is at an end, and, if the object should prove to be an enemy, the seal will immediately disappear under water.
When a seal is doubtful about anything floating on the water, it will take a long circuit round, and keep out of shot until it has got to windward of the suspicious object.
It was now lying thick on her cloak in front, and on the windward face of the lantern in her hand.
Parson Christian was standing by the gate on the windward side of the mill-yard, with Laird Fisher beside him, looking on in silence at the leaping flames.
Next morning by daybreak we were to windward of the weathermost--a fine large Indiaman she was, crowding a perfect tower of canvas.
The black arch to windward began to rise again, showing a terrible white stare reaching deep in, and a blue dart of lightning actually ran zigzag down before our glaring fore-to'gallant-mast.
The pilot-brig is spoken to windward next morning, even while the deep-sea lead-line is being hove to sound the bottom.
We were losing our weather-gage; in fact, the Indiaman must actually be to windward of us ere then, and if the breeze freshened we might lose them altogether.
The frigate ranged up to windward of her, and the sonorous voice of Lord Eustace was heard, "Brig a-hoy!
Upon the windward coast of Africa, in a situation calculated to warm the coolest temperament, stands a European settlement,--a pimple of civilization upon the fiery face of a barbarous continent.
All huddled about the fires, but the gale was so fierce that on the windward side there seemed to be no radiation of heat, so completely was the fire blown away from that side of the logs.
Against this were laid other poles and branches of trees sloping to the ground on the windward side.
To the windward there was a gap in the walls, through which forked tongues of mist ran in, but curled up and over the ragged cliffs, as though the prospect were too uninviting to lure them farther.
A swell rolled over the windward reef and made our quarters in the grotto by no means safe or agreeable.
The windward vestibule wound down toward the sea, a wild gorge through which the molten lava had poured its destructive flood.
He takes you by the lapels of the coat, holds you to windward for twenty minutes in a breeze blowing twenty-five miles an hour, although this lays you up with a cold for a week, and thus plants the first seeds of consumption.
Now the cause of dirt has virtually been killed by the planting of trees, brush, and by the laying of asphaltum walks and sod-ground drives on this windward side.
Get to windward of him and run his ships down, and have done.
As it was, they seemed to gain hand over hand for a while, but they had to pull dead to windward in following us as we went off at an angle to the old course.
Then Bertric's face cleared, for the ship went to windward like a swallow, her length helping her in spite of her lightness.
Her decks would be crowded, of course, but she would be down to her bearings, being built for war cruises, and in a breeze all her men would be sitting up to windward as shifting ballast, so to speak.
Two white specks on the blue circle's edge, sails of ships which sailed westward, as if beating to windward in long boards against the northeast breeze.
It went on, cleaving its way through the press as a ship cleaves its way to windward through the waves, and after it had passed, there was a track of fallen men to tell of how it had fared.
Only it was as if the ring of sea to windward had of a sudden grown smaller.
The sea-side has no beach on which the remains of fuci or molluscs are heaped up; but the neighbouring coast, which stretches eastward towards Cape Codera, and consequently to the windward of La Guayra, is extremely unhealthy.
In fact in many barchans the sand ripples on the windward slopes cross the direction of the wind at right angles.
So that it was to the advantage of all nine craft to be as near the starting-line as possible at the signal, and under headway and also up to windward as far as possible.
Look at her now, just eating away there to windward and leaving this harbour out of sight.
It was soon evident that the Bertha, take it all in all, was the best boat for working up to windward in rough water and a good breeze.
They are doing surprisingly well for a small craft in windward work," he muttered.
For a boat of its size, I guess she goes to windwardas well as any.
She had taken a position to windward of the Guardian-Mother, and appeared to be doing quite as well in the heavy sea as her consort.
The others concurred in this, and very fortunately the breeze kept to the west and south, for Wyllard had very grave doubts as to whether he could have thrashed the schooner to windward through a steep head sea.
They were pulling towindward now, and it was necessary to watch the seas that ranged up ahead and to handle the boat circumspectly while the freshening breeze blew the spray over them.
As Wyllard glanced to windward Dampier strode up to him.
They obeyed orders cheerfully, though they knew it meant a thrash to windward along the perilous edge of the ice.
It is, as he knew from experience, always hard work, and often impossible, to pull a boat to windward in any weight of breeze, which rendered it advisable to keep the schooner under way.
He pictured, in terse seaman's words, the little schooner plunging to windward over long phalanxes of icy seas, or crawling white with snow through the blinding fog.
Below them the Windward Passage lay, deep blue in the sunlight.
The wisest plan would be to get as far to windward as they could before dawn.
When more than a hundred yards to windward of the wreck, the boat's foresail was lowered and her anchor let go.
The steamer towed the lifeboat to windward of the wreck into such a position that when cast adrift she could bear down on her.
When the lifeboat at last made in towards them the ebb tide was running strongly, and, from the position of the wreck, it was impossible to anchor to windward and drop down to leeward in the usual fashion.
The shrieking gale sweeps clouds of spray high over our windward cliffs, and carries flecks of foam far inland, to tell of the dread warfare that is raging on the maddened sea.
It was heaped apparently with the lightness of foam on the windward sides of the roads, over the fences and the stone walls, and on the village roofs.
With respect to their health in these voyages, the mortality, where the African constitution was the strongest, or on the windward coast, was only about five in a hundred.
On the windward coast, it appeared from Lieutenant Story and Mr. Bowman, that the evils just mentioned existed, if possible, in a still higher degree.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
He had hardly obeyed, with a very bad grace, when the whale started off towindward with us, at a tremendous rate.
We sailed from our anchorage, near the lighthouse at Needham Point to the north-east of the bay, somewhere in the second week of January, making first for Tobago, which lies more to the southward of the Windward Islands.
The Argo and the Saratoga ran in upon the windward quarter and banged away with audacity.
The Deerhound had kept about a mile to windward of the two contestants, but she now steamed towards the mass of living heads, which dotted the surface of the sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
