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  • The bowsprit dipped under the anchor chain, and the whole bulwark on the weatherside was carried away.

    The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

  • The ropes were all coiled away, and laid down in regular man-of-war fashion; while an ugly gruff beast of a Spanish mulatto, apparently the officer of the watch, walked the weatherside of the quarterdeck in the true pendulum style.

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • He did not see Barker, for he turned, seaman-like, to the weatherside, and the try-sail hid his friend from his sight.

    Doctor Claudius, A True Story 1881

  • It is one of the best of forest trees for resisting wind; it "scorns to be biassed in its mode of growth even by the prevailing wind, but shooting its branches with equal boldness in every direction, shows no weatherside to the storm, and may be broken, but never can be bended."

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • Walker, godsons’ goddestfar, deputising for gossipocracy, and his station was a few perch to the weatherside of the knoll Asnoch and it was from no other place unless there, how and ever, that he proxtended aloof upon the ether Mesmer’s

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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