They had drifted off-shore, and now they had opened up the channel the combers leaped on board.

Straight toward the beach she steamed, looming larger and ever larger; then her speed slackened, slackened, until at last she lay rolling quietly a quarter of a mile off-shore.

"Greeting, O brothers," he said, "brothers of old time before I went away with the off-shore wind.

No man may mate with the off-shore wind and come back on the heels of the years.

" "But he had no doings with the off-shore wind," Opee-Kwan retorted.

Three such nights whitened into dawn and showed me no land, and the off-shore wind would not let me go.

The off-shore wind blew keen and chill, and the black-massed clouds behind it gave promise of bitter weather.

Then a hush fell upon the fisherfolk, and only was heard the moan of the off-shore wind and the cries of the gulls flying low in the air.

On the 20th of August last she reached what is well known to all whalers, as the "Off-shore ground," in latitude five degrees fifty minutes south, longitude one hundred and twenty degrees west.

But when Kennedy and his party made their pioneer journey, the great desolation of the wilderness beset them on every side from the land, whilst the sea off-shore held myriad dangers.

It floated, caught gently by the back wash of the stronger off-shore current.

Though Gadabout swung to the landing finely, a strong off-shore wind caught her; our ropes fell short; and we should have made but sorry work of it if a grapnel had not shot out into the air and saved the day.

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Hawaii off-shore territory.

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Hawaii off-shore territory.

The off-shore translucent waters of the Gulf of Gascony were the "Sinus Aquitanicus" of the ancients.

I am really in hopes there is a slight current off-shore here; if anything, we actually open the highlands of Corsica by this promontory.

As the night wind blew directly down the play, sighing across the campagna, between Vesuvius and Castel à Mare, it became necessary to tack off-shore, as soon as le Feu-Follet got close to the cliffs where the obscurity was greatest, and her proportions and rig were not discernible at any distance.

"Greetings, O brothers," he said, "brothers of old time before I went away with the off-shore wind.

No man may mate with the off-shore wind and come back on the heels of the years.

" "But he had no doings with the off-shore wind," Opee-Kwan retorted.

And in the morning there was no land,only the sea,and the off-shore wind held me close in its arms and bore me along.

The off-shore wind blew keen and chill, and the black-massed clouds behind it gave promise of bitter weather.

Then a hush fell upon the fisherfolk, and only was heard the moan of the off-shore wind and the cries of the gulls flying low in the air.