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By this time the schooner had luffed up within a cable's length of the ice, along the margin of which she was running under easy sail.

From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore

Two more headsails followed; and before the tattooed man had scrambled to his feet, a topsail schooner, of some hundred tons, had luffed about the sentinel and was standing up the bay, close-hauled.

From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis

On the Frenchmen boldly came, till their van was nearly abreast of the centre of the English, who had luffed up till they had almost brought the fleet again on a bowline.

From True Blue by Kingston, William Henry Giles

By this time, the schooner had luffed up into the wind, and Tom directed his companions to pull again.

From The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army A Story of the Great Rebellion by Optic, Oliver

We had luffed a bit to let the Orchid draw out ahead, and now all I seemed to see was her slowly nearing rail; twenty feet away, fifteen, ten.

From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch