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I was a-mummin 'for'ard, kinder sleep-in' on and by, and Sam at the helm, when we see a bot a-slidin 'into the ripple right ahead of us, and in a minute a couple of white heads was dodgin' up a little to the wind'ard.
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Thank you, my lad, I know you're not talking soft solder, so as to get to wind'ard of me, like those fellows in there.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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"Well, go long! good-luck to ye; keep to wind'ard o 'squalls, George."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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One step forward he made to go to his assistance when there rose a towering wall of dark water to wind'ard.
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Yes, sir; no more than yesterday, says I to myself, Chuck Burrows, says I, you are gettin 'long too fur to the wind'ard o' sixty fur this here trip all to yourself.
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Heavier and heavier they were growing to wind'ard.
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"He'll beat up to wind'ard a bit an 'then pick us up," said the seine-master cheerfully.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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Now, in the ol 'days, I've seen a dozen whales to wind'ard an' we couldn't get to 'em at all.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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Gratu'tously telling a man you don't like him don't lay you up to wind'ard any.
Sonnie-Boy's People 1912
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See this little wherewithal I'm holding, and not too loosely, by the wind'ard leg?
Sonnie-Boy's People 1912
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