weather-bow

Philip of Macedon that thundered on the weather-bow.

Eothen 2003

We stood out to sea, and on the second day again made the land, when we saw on our weather-bow this notorious promontory in its proper form — veiled in a mist, and its dim outline surrounded by a storm of wind and water.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

We stood out to sea, and on the second day again made the land, when we saw on our weather-bow this notorious promontory in its proper form — veiled in a mist, and its dim outline surrounded by a storm of wind and water.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

I accordingly turned her over upon the quarter, and was in the act of nailing on the canvas, when I observed a very large spermaceti whale, as well as I could judge about eighty-five feet in length; he broke water about twenty rods off our weather-bow, and was lying quietly, with his head in a direction for the ship.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

With his huge sea-castles heaving upon the weather-bow.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

That phrase about the "weather-bow" was a nautical fiction, for there was no wind to speak of, and what there was was nearly dead astern.

Stories by English Authors: the Sea Various

Put the helm up; brought those rockets, and false fires, to bear two points on the weather-bow; could then carry royal and top-gallant stay-sails, and reefed fore top-mast studding-sail.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

"Two points on the weather-bow, sir," was the reply.

Stories by English Authors: the Sea Various

We saw this light last night about midnight, right on our weather-bow, and came up to see what it was.

Cord and Creese James De Mille

And now we prepared to return to Juan Fernandez, and hauled up to the south-west with that view, having but very little wind till the 12th, when, at three in the morning, there sprang up a fresh gale from the west-south-west, and we tacked and stood to the north-west; and at daybreak we were agreeably surprised with the sight of a sail on our weather-bow, between four and five leagues distant.

Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter