over-weathered

Updated: May 18, 2025

It is a common notion with landsmen that a ship is in her finest condition when she leaves port to enter upon her voyage, and that she comes home, after a long absence, ``With over-weathered ribs and ragged sails; Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

It is a common notion with landsmen that a ship is in her finest condition when she leaves port to enter upon her voyage; and that she comes home, after a long absence, "With over-weathered ribs and ragged sails; Lean, rent and beggared by the strumpet wind."

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

When she was wearied she crept into a shed in a farmyard, and slept, for the first time for weeks, the calm sleep of security and hope. "How like a prodigal doth she return, With over-weathered ribs and ragged sails." Merchant of Venice. "Mer. What are these? Uncle. The tenants." BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Wit without Money.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Ernest Maltravers — Complete

When she was wearied she crept into a shed in a farmyard, and slept, for the first time for weeks, the calm sleep of security and hope. "How like a prodigal doth she return, With over-weathered ribs and ragged sails." /Merchant of Venice/. "/Mer./ What are these? /Uncle./ The tenants." BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. /Wit without Money/.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Ernest Maltravers — Volume 04