"Easting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... believe that his mistress would appear. However ere a scanty space of time had elapsed, lo and behold! the young lady bearing her bedding[FN251] and still sleeping passed through the house door and she was bright and beautiful as the easting sun. But when the youth the Cook sighted her, he was perplex" and his wits took flight with his sense and he cried aloud saying, "This be naught save a wondrous matter!" "And the same," quoth the Sage, "is that requiredst thou." Quoth the Cook, "And thou, O my lord art of the Hallows ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... isn't wind. It's something unthinkable. It's impossible. It must reach ninety or a hundred miles an hour in the gusts. That don't mean anything. How could I ever tell it to anybody? I couldn't. And look at that sea! I've run my Easting down, but I ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London
... we had made sufficient Easting to stand to the northward, which we did, with the wind astern; thus fairly turning the corner without abating our rate of progress. Though we had seen no land since leaving Callao, Cape Horn was said to be somewhere to the west of us; and though ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... wanting. The skeletons of mountain and hill appear as if prolonged under water. The ruddy syenite is dyked and veined by the familiar network of green-black porphyritic trap; the filons are disposed in parallels striking north-south, with a little easting; the dip is westerly (about 35 degrees mag.), and the thickness extends to hundreds of feet, often forming a foundation for the upper cliff. The subaerial parts are the same warty and pimply growth which appears on the other side. ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... sailing cracks of famous old renown, Had logged their eighteen easy when they ran their easting down With cargo, mails and passengers bound South from London ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919 • Various
... with water and put it aboard, and bought two sealing-guns and a supply of powder and slugs. They headed down the bay at the first gray wash of dawn. After three hours of hauling across the wind they rounded the southern headland of the bay. They made an easting of more than a mile before heading due south. Mr. Darling took the tiller now, and George manned the sheet. Darling produced a pair of marine glasses and the chart which he had made from information received from ...
— The Harbor Master • Theodore Goodridge Roberts
... 15 degrees 56 minutes East. Stood to the South-East until 8 a.m., then tack'd and stood to the North-West; but it soon after fell Calm, and continued so until noon, when by our account we were in the Latitude of 47 degrees 6 minutes South, and had made 12 Miles Easting since ...
— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook
... I shall draw the following conclusion, that after passing the Cape de Verde Islands, if you do not make above 4 deg. or 5 deg. easting, and cross the Line in, or to the westward of, the meridian of St Jago, you may expect to find your ship 3 deg. or 4 deg. to the westward of her reckoning by the time you get into the latitude of 10 deg. S. If, on the ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr
... One: Th' Empyrean's Lord allow thee bower of heavenly bliss, * And wi' thy faithful friends The Guide show goodly wone: I bid thee last good e'en with sigh of bitter grief, * Seeing the West in woe for lack of Easting Sun." ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... passage will be short. You'll not be without a breeze this afternoon; and, by stretching well over towards Montauck you'll be able to make such an offing, on the other tack, as to run the coast down in the morning. If I am any judge of the weather, the wind will have more easting in it, than you may happen to find ...
— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper |
