| 单词 | head sea |
| 例句 | The Ushuaia bunted and bobbed her way through a head sea for five days before the high alluvial cliffs that mark the entrance to New Gulf loomed through the chilled mist of a storming morning. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z We tacked ship three times in the course of the day, and made little progress against the head sea. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z "One's heart is apt to fail when one looks forward and sees only the snow-squalls to drive one back to leeward, and the steep head seas." Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The weather was stormy; the wind was blowing something of a gale and head seas were breaking over the destroyers' decks. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z They got sail upon the sloop and drove her out into a confused head sea, through which she laboured with flooded decks, making very little to windward. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z They ran out of the channel and were thrashing close-hauled into a rather steep head sea when Harry spoke again. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Her foredeck was constantly under water, as she pitched and wallowed against the head seas. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z With the ship pitching to a heavy head sea, this was by no means easy, yet it was simple compared to the work of repairing the damaged bobstay. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z When, too, it has to be done as the ship is dragged relentlessly through a heavy head sea, as was now the case, the difficulty and danger is certainly doubled. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Under this sail the little Water Lily made most excellent way; going a good eight knots through the water, close-hauled, and against a very respectable head sea. The Secret of the Sands The "Water Lily" and her Crew 2011-03-10T03:00:43.810Z A few minutes later they began to swing sharply up and down, and the thuds against them made it evident that the sloop was plunging close-hauled through a short, head sea. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z The British could fire only at the flashes of the enemy's guns, and often even these slight indications were hidden from the gun-layers by the heavy head seas. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z "No buffeting head winds and head seas for months at a time now," exclaimed Mr. Powers. Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 As the head sea caught the massive bows, she never waited. An Ocean Tramp The wind hauled ahead with a head sea. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) It was becoming exceedingly hard work to drive the craft into the rising head sea. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z "The course of true love," which is somewhat notorious for "never running smooth," seemed at this moment about to encounter a "head sea." An Old Sailor's Yarns Besides a stiffening head wind the ship was now laboring into piling head seas. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China But clearly the weather was in a very unsettled state, and outside Amoy the glass again went down with a rising head sea. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The motion of a ship bobbing in a head sea, compared to the vertical fall of monkeys on pile heads. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Often the heavy head seas hid even the flashes from the gun-layers. World's War Events, Vol. I Wind Blowing Great Guns and a head sea. The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898 "There is nothing to be done now but to let her run," said Harry, as he gripped the helm hard to meet a sudden plunge into a head sea. A Voyage with Captain Dynamite This is a so-called seagoing destroyer; but no one but a fool would buck one into a head sea; and that's what's coming, with a big blow, too. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility At six o'clock that evening the Motutapu was plunging into a heavy head sea, for the wind had suddenly hauled round to the northeast and raised a mountainous swell. Tessa 1901 Though the steamer was still laboring heavily against the tremendous head seas, she appeared to be holding her position in safety. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi While struggling with a head sea, and before the boat could reach the mast, the end came. The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend It was as if the ship had risen to a rolling head sea. Sonnie-Boy's People Denman watched her swing to a starboard wheel; and, when the rolling gave way to a pitching motion as she met the head sea, he glanced at the after binnacle compass. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility And the poor skippers fighting their way round the Horn, icy winds and head seas and immense gray dirty-bearded waves.... The Wind Bloweth I found that the Sylvania backed well against the head sea, and then I stopped her screw. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi See how well she behaves against that head sea! Rattlin the Reefer It will be a long pull and a heavy one, for we shall have a head sea as soon as we get clear of this bay.” The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book But with a head sea and a Mediterranean gale howling down from the gorges of the Ligurian Alps, that thing wasn't so easy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 About him was the tremor as she took the head seas. The Wind Bloweth Bucking head seas every mile of the way, she picked up Diamond Shoals four hours behind schedule. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He could feel the building shake with the tremor of the detonation, shake and quiver like a ship pounded by strong head seas. Phantom Wires A Novel Flint's prediction in regard to the weather seemed to be in the way of fulfilment, for the Bronx had been leaping mildly on a head sea for the last hour. On The Blockade By daylight of the second day we were again underweigh, beating to the eastward against the old head wind and head sea. Voyage of the Liberdade Even while running, the short, stumpy wings were used to aid its flight and steady its body, which rocked, and rolled, and swayed to and fro like a ship in a head sea. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia Against the head sea all the boats pulled back to the two steamers. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East We were rushing and tearing along at such a pace, against a head sea, that it almost took one's breath away. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months The Bronx was pitching heavily, though she still maintained her reputation as an easy-going ship in spite of the head sea. On The Blockade He walked slowly through the storm towards his house, his broad figure facing the wind and sleet with as much ease as a steamer forging against a head sea. A Tale of a Lonely Parish The gale lasted with little intermission during the 20th and 21st; and at four o'clock the next morning we had the misfortune to lose our bowsprit by the vessel's plunging into a head sea. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 He will assuredly find fair winds and head winds, clear skies and cloudy skies, head seas and cross seas as well as stern seas. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 For two days the "Bertha Millner" had been beating up the coast, fighting her way against northerly winds, butting into head seas. Moran of the Lady Letty Comes in with strong gales and a heavy head sea. Java Head They got sail upon the sloop and drove her out into a confused head sea, through which she labored with flooded decks, making very little to windward. Vane of the Timberlands In a few hours the wind hauled into the north-east, and a short head sea rendered the ship exceedingly uneasy. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Then the dory was cast loose, and Mr. Thaxter rowed ashore against a head sea. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Either their captains would not take the risk, or else could not force their ships through the heavy head sea. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders In a few minutes the boat was hoisted on deck, the vessel's head put close to the wind, and the Coral Island dropped slowly astern as we beat up against a head sea. The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean A.--The trial in which this relation was best determined lasted for seven hours, and was made against a strong head wind and heavy head sea. A Catechism of the Steam Engine The brig came up into the wind, the sails shivered, but owing to the head sea or some other cause, she would not come round, and soon gathered stern way. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale The ship's bows were now butting, battering, ramming, and thundering over and upon the head seas, and with a horrible wallowing sound our whole hull was rolling in the trough of the foam. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War And now, when at last he was ready to start due west, a strong head sea prevailed for two days and would not let them push forward. Christopher Columbus The boat sails well on the wind, though hard to pull against a strong head sea. Four Months in a Sneak-Box Stenhouse had a battered, rudderless ship, with only a few tons of coal left in the bunkers, and he struggled northward in heavy weather against persistent adverse winds and head seas. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition In a fresh breeze and a head sea the seams would open, and a good "spell at the pump," every twenty minutes at least, was required to keep her free. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Indeed, it always jumps and jerks like a bobstay in a head sea, when I meets her. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter The heavy head sea was beating against her bows with the noise and force almost of a sledgehammer, and flying over the deck, drenching us completely through. Two Years Before the Mast The heavy head sea was beating against her bows with the noise and force almost of a sledge-hammer, and flying over the deck, drenching us completely through. Two Years Before the Mast The vessel lost her way and began to dip her bows into the quick succession of the running head seas. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows The winch was old, and the strain of the jumping head sea was too much for it. A Collection of Stories One asked me what I meant by coming aft all salt, like a head sea, making the deck wet after he'd squeegeed it down. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger The ship broke out her own anchor, which we catted and fished, after a fashion, and were soon close-hauled, under reefed sails, standing off from the lee shore and rocks against a heavy head sea. Two Years Before the Mast The ship broke out her own anchor, which we catted and fished, after a fashion, and stood off from the lee-shore against a heavy head sea, under reefed topsails, fore-topmast staysail and spanker. Two Years Before the Mast Wind whistles on deck, and ship works hard, groaning and creaking, and pitching into a heavy head sea, which strikes against the bows, with a noise like knocking upon a rock. Two Years Before the Mast Coming on deck, find it is blowing harder, and an ugly head sea running. Two Years Before the Mast Clouds look black and wild; wind rising, and ship working hard against a heavy head sea, which breaks over the forecastle, and washes aft through the scuppers. Two Years Before the Mast |
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