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Then I'm keeping the menus just what I furnish and what it costs. Anybody could order and manage when it was all set down for her. And you see as you have figured it they'd have over $500 leeway to buy the furniture if they were allowed to." "Yes," Mrs. Bell admitted, "if the rent was what you allow, and if they all work all the time!" "That's the hitch, of course.
For instance, when asked whether he was going to Nome, his only reply was that his ticket didn't read that way. Perhaps the missionary was canny in not allowing his room-mates too much leeway. And there were others. As we approached the now familiar bold and bleak topography of Unalaska, it was apparent that the rumors of late ice in Bering Sea were well founded.
Then taking a long oar from the boat, he dropped it between two pegs astern, and while he used this as a sculling oar to steer the boat, Toby unshipped the rudder and dragged it aboard. "She's makin' leeway," Skipper Zeb explained, "and I can hold she up to the wind better with the oar than the tiller." A roller broke over the boat, and left a foot of water in the bottom.
"It's not the right shape." "Or perhaps it's a feather-bed; I don't know of anything I want less." "It's too large for that; now guess, really." "As a matter of fact, I expect it is mining machinery, which will be about as much use as another chimney; but here goes to find out." He brought his hatchet down vigorously between the boards at one end, where a slight crevice promised some leeway.
It would sweep the narrow valley clean of every small structure and of every living thing that could not get out of its path. Half a mile was small leeway; the flood would pour down upon the village and the mills in two or three minutes. But the Navy boys in the big car were flying over the road at a forty-mile-an-hour pace.
At the age of forty-five he became as he himself expressed it an abject slave, and he would as soon have tried to steer in a slipper-bath right in the teeth of an equinoctial hurricane, as have opposed the will of his wife. He used to sigh gruffly when spoken to on this subject, and compare himself to a Dutch galliot that made more leeway than headway, even with a wind on the quarter.
"That was what she wanted!" exclaimed Gus, when the yacht began to gain again, and in a few minutes was half a length ahead. "But not quite so much of it," replied Donald, when he saw that his craft was sliding off a very little. "Give her just three inches more fin, Dick." The centre-board was dropped this distance, and the tendency to make leeway thus corrected.
At first Tarzan had been inclined to adopt the role of Jad-ben-Otho himself but it occurred to him that it might prove embarrassing and considerable of a bore to be compelled constantly to portray the character of a god, but with the growing success of his scheme it had suddenly occurred to him that the authority of the son of Jad-ben-Otho would be far greater than that of an ordinary messenger of a god, while at the same time giving him some leeway in the matter of his acts and demeanor, the ape-man reasoning that a young god would not be held so strictly accountable in the matter of his dignity and bearing as an older and greater god.
How does she answer her helm? Beautifully. What leeway does she make? Scarce perceptible. The log is hove repeatedly, seven, seven-and-a-half, close-hauled. Stand by, the captain is going to work her himself. She advances head to the wind bravely, like a British soldier to the breach she is about! she has stayed within her own length she has not lost her way!
Ready for work again, and in reasonable health of mind and body, John Ruskin sat down in his little study at Herne Hill in November, 1841, with his private tutor, Osborne Gordon. There was eighteen months' leeway to make up, and the dates of ancient history, the details of schematized Aristotelianism, soon slip out of mind when one is sketching in Italy.
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