leeside

She tried to shake the image of them entwined on the leeside of the dunes, where no one, including Helen, could see them.

Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

She tried to shake the image of them entwined on the leeside of the dunes, where no one, including Helen, could see them.

Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

With that habit of getting under the lee of any shelter which waterside characters acquire, the waterside character at present in question led the way to the leeside of the Six

Our Mutual Friend 2004

It was the BELLEROPHON, overpowered by the huge ORIENT: her lights had gone overboard, nearly 200 of her crew were killed or wounded, all her masts and cables had been shot away; and she was drifting out of the line toward the leeside of the bay.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Only bare ice was visible, which meant that the Tran had moved off toward the leeside stairway.

Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

The Great Dividing Range runs this way and I am on the leeside toward the sea.

Unmanned Stephen Oliver

The wind was so favourable that the oars were little needed, save that some on the leeside kept stroke that the ships might make good weathering.

Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

I had fortunately been carried by a current upon the leeside of the island, so that I was protected from the wind and sea, but my limbs felt numb and cold, while the blood coursed feebly in my veins.

Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes

The leeside of us lay full of flats and dangers, inevitable if the wind blew hard at south.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland Edward Hayes

The earth trembles; the hillock, on the leeside of which we are, rocks and shakes; and the air grows thick and suffocating -- full of dust and saltpetre and sulphur.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various