As the British frigate again wore to open with her starboard battery, the Constitution yawed a little and fired two or three of her port bow-guns.
The brig rolled awfully, and with four men at the wheel, yawed wildly.
Now and again, with some little shift, her sail flapped and she lost her way, and yawed so that we gained on her fast, while a new hope of success sprang up in our minds.
Presently she yawed again in that clumsy way which we were wondering at, and showed us her whole side, pierced for sixteen oars, and bright with the shields, for a moment, and then she was back on her course.
Only she yawed and swung away from us as if she would pass us, and at that Dalfin cried out, while I paid off fast to follow her, and again Bertric hailed.
It was of no use; the old tub yawed around and was struck by a heavy sea.
Suddenly the brig yawed off and was struck by a heavy sea.
In a few minutes she yawed to starboard, and the main-sail was taken aback.
There, you infarnal beast, you've yawed sharp up into this ere bush, and put my starboard glim out forever!
Well, as I've yawed a little out of my course, suppose we have another swig before I takes a fresh departure?
He did not seem to have made up his mind which boat he would attack--we were pretty near together, and he yawed at one, and then at the other.
Then he hoisted the English ensign over the French, and immediately the stranger yawed and fired a bow-chaser.
She was now slowly yawed about as if badly steered, with sails ill trimmed, and her sides brown and dirty and long unacquainted with fresh paint, a screen of canvas concealing her ports.
The French ship would, indeed, have gained more than she had done had she not yawedoccasionally and fired with her bow-chasers.
In return the schooner yawed so as to bring her whole broadside to bear on the cutter, and six tongues of flame flashed from her side.
Sometimes she came up to windward and rolled until the white seas swept her rail; sometimes she yawed to lee.
With her rudder lifted, she did not steer, and while the helmsman sweated at the wheel she yawed about until her quarters sank and the screw got hold.
In a couple of hours Horace was glad to hand over the tiller to the skipper as the sea had got up a good deal, and the Surf yawed so much before the following waves that it needed more skill than he possessed to keep her straight.
She yawed a bit, and let us have four or five of her forward guns on the starboard side, and this time a couple of shot went through our sails.
Nothing was left for them but to follow the huge "smoke-grinding" mass that yawed and pitched in front of them.
Half an hour after the action had commenced the Huascar's tiller-chains were shot away, and she at once yawed to starboard, almost in the track of the Cochrane.
The latter yawed several times, and let fly full broadsides at the escaping cruiser.
The Constitution yawed a little, and fired three of her bow guns.
A little rattling on the open roads, and they came to the borders of the forest and struck into an unfrequented track; the noddy yawed softly over the sand, with an accompaniment of snapping twigs.
At the same moment she yawed sharply and seemed to change her course.
The big steamer staggered and yawed right out of her course.
For a moment the destroyer yawed right off her course, but she was under control again in a few seconds, and her forward gun spoke once more.
The brig yawed as they spoke, and as she came round a spurt of smoke whiffed out from her quarter.
A single man was seated in the sheets, and she yawed about as she ran, as though he were of two minds whether to beach her or no.
The gun was instantly again loaded, but before they had time to fire, the pirate yawed and let fly a bow chaser, the shot from which flew through the main-topsail, though without doing further damage.
At the third summons the Kearsarge yawed gracefully to port, and out of those frowning Dahlgrens blazed her answer.
The Alabama was yawed a little to enable the gunner to take accurate aim, and a hundred-pound shell splintered the foremast of the fugitive ten feet above the deck.
The ship swayed and yawed frightfully from this side to that.
But the Spaniard yawed and rolled in so frightful a manner that the sails at times seemed hardly to be restrained by their sheets, and flapped so noisily that they boomed like long cannon.
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