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Examples
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I managed to make my way forward, but there was little choice of sides, for the weather-rail seemed buried as often as the lee.
Chapter 17 2010
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Seas burst and surged across her weather-rail and kept her deck half filled, despite the spouting ports and gushing scuppers.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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Leaving the wheel to another, he runs quickly forward to lean over the weather-rail.
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He walked forward, leaned over the weather-rail, and directed his glass.
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Seas burst and surged across her weather-rail and kept her deck half filled, despite the spouting ports and gushing scuppers.
Chapter 33 1914
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On the high quarter-deck we had only to hang onto the weather-rail, but the men stationed amidships had to watch sharp to keep from being swept overboard.
Wide Courses 1912
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I managed to make my way forward, but there was little choice of sides, for the weather-rail seemed buried as often as the lee.
Chapter 17 1904
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The schooner came around with a thrashing of canvas, stretched out seawards, and came back again with her deck sharply slanted and little puffs of spray blowing over her weather-rail, for there was no doubt that the breeze was freshening fast.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands Harold Bindloss 1905
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They stood by the weather-rail, holding on grimly, straight and glistening in their long coats; then, at times, in the disordered plunges of the hard-driven ship, they appeared high up, attentive, tossing violently above the grey line of a clouded horizon, and in motionless attitudes.
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I managed to make my way forward, but there was little choice of sides, for the weather-rail seemed buried as often as the lee.
The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896
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