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The wind, you perceive, serves equally well for both." Miss Belcher considered for a moment. "The Keys lie to the west of Gable Point, here. By taking that side we can have a look at them on our way." "Right, ma'am. Harry!" he turned to me "bring her nose round to sou'-west and by south, and stand by for the gybe." He hauled in the main-sheet and eased it over.
Davies sniffed the wind and scanned the tree-tops, where light gusts were toying with the leaves. 'Sou'-west still, he said, 'and more rain coming. But it's bound to shift into the north. 'Will that be a good wind for us? 'It depends where we go, he said, slowly. 'I was asking those fellows about duck-shooting. They seemed to think the best place would be Schlei Fiord.
"Well, I think her 'ead was sou'-west, if it warn't nor'-east. Anyhow it was pintin' somewhere or other round the compass. "`Hard a-port! roared the man. "`Port it is, cried the man at the wheel, an' round went the ship like a duck, jist missin' the bit of wreck as she passed. A boat wos lowered, and Mrs Ellice wos took aboard.
Now the time was come at last, and they crept their way to the courtyard hand in hand, taking some comfort because the night was very favourable to their project. The snow had melted, and a great gale blew from the sou'-west, boisterous but not cold, which caused the tall elms that stood about to screech and groan like things alive.
Quartermaster?" "Aye, aye, sir?" "Let her off a point or two gradually until you bring her head about sou'-sou'-west, and keep her so." "Aye, aye, sir," responded Atkins, easing her off as required. "Sou'- sou'-west it shall be, sir, in a minute." "That will bring us across her, I think," said the skipper to me. "But we must go a little faster if we want to overtake her.
The light was bad, and a misplaced boom tricked us; kedging-off failed, and at 8 p.m. we were left on a perfect Ararat of sand, and only a yard or two from that accursed boom, which is perched on the very summit, as a lure to the unwary. It is going to blow hard too, though that is no great matter, as we are sheltered by banks on the sou'-west and nor'-west sides, the likely quarters.
At midnight, however, Tom and I were awakened by a knock at our cabin door, and the gruff voice of Powell, saying: 'The barometer's going down very fast, please, sir, and it's lightning awful in the sou'-west. There's a heavy storm coming up. We were soon on deck, where we found all hands busily engaged in preparing for the tempest. Around us a splendid sight presented itself.
'Little enough, too! he cried harshly. 'Down sail, Jim, and bring her to! Now, master, you can step over the side, or you can come back to Dover, but I don't take the Vixen a cable's length nearer to Ambleteuse Beef with this gale coming up from the sou'-west. 'In that case I shall go, said I.
It was on a gray afternoon in the lull of a three days' gale that had left the Southern Ocean tumbling heavily upon our ship, under a sky hung with rags of clouds that seemed to have been cut and hacked by the keen edge of a sou'-west gale. Our craft, a Clyde-built barque of 1,000 tons, rolled so heavily that something aloft had carried away.
"Ah, you've got the right exposure here to the south and sou'-west," says the Sergeant, with a wag of his grizzled head, and a streak of pleasure in his melancholy voice. "This is the shape for a rosery nothing like a circle set in a square. Yes, yes; with walks between all the beds. But they oughtn't to be gravel walks like these. Grass, Mr.
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