lee shore

Historical Examples

• Hows'ever it needs a good seaman to choose his lee-shore well, no doubt.'

  The Green Hand

  George Cupples

• Hal exclaimed with a gasp, feeling as if he were stranded on the lee-shore.

  The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

  Amanda Minnie Douglas

• Now you lubberly sons of swabs have got me on a lee-shore with all anchors draggin!

  Cursed

  George Allan England

• "A lee-shore, you know," added Captain Trejago, for himself.

  The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood

  Arthur Griffiths

• This made England a lee-shore, and I began to be as glad to get off it, as I had lately been to hug it.

  Afloat And Ashore

  James Fenimore Cooper