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Ronald admired him especially for the good sense and judgment he displayed in conversation, and the coolness and courage he exhibited in danger. The gale continued, and the frigate lay her course to cross the Atlantic. "She has been making much lee-way," Ronald heard the master observe to the captain.
We hain't got any picter of the old lady, because she'd never stand for her ambrotipe, and therefore I can't giv her likeness to the world through the meejum of the illusterated papers; but as she wasn't a brigadier-gin'ral, particlerly, I don't s'pose they'd publish it, any how. It's best to give a woman considerable lee-way. But not too much. A naber of mine, Mr.
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 lee-way than head-way, even with a wind on the quarter.
Alternatheras and Achyranthes will need very little shearing, as to top, because of their habit of low growth. In setting these plants in the bed, be governed by the habit of each plant. Achyranthes and Alternatheras, being the smallest, should be put about four inches apart. Give the Coleus about six inches of lee-way, also the Centaurea.
The group of persons, as before observed, were at the head of the Severn, and the wind was drawing up the river, it was, therefore, necessary, to beat against the wind at starting. To the surprise, in particular of the ladies, this was done with the most perfect ease, the vessel, on her sharp runners, making but little lee-way, and obeying her helm more readily than any boat in water.
The door again swung wide, and a man drenched to the skin, the water glistening on his bushy gray beard stepped in. "I heard you were here, sir, and had to see you. There's only four feet lee-way in our culvert, sir, and the scour's eating into the underpinning; I am just up from there. We are trying bags of cement, but it doesn't do much good."
He luffed his ship as close to the wind as possible, in order to clear a point that stretched outward, and beat off to windward, but his lee-way carried him towards the land, and he was caught when he least expected the trap.
"The boat with the major in it is losing a good deal by lee-way, for he seems to be making no allowance for it." "What does that mean?" asked Percy, puzzled by the statement. "She has the wind on her beam, and she drifts to the north almost as much as she goes ahead.
Shakespeare commentators, in particular, have been duly grateful for the lee-way granted them, when they are relieved from the necessity of limiting Shakespeare's meanings to the confines of his knowledge. As for the poet's own sense of his incomprehension, Francis Thompson's words are typical.
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