The heart of each now grew faint, and our cheeks were pale, for there was but one hope, and that was to find some bay, and so get in the lee of the land.
十九世纪冒险故事 Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea by James O. Brayman
" Halloa, there! " shouted Captain Spinnet, as the luckless pirates crowded around the lee gangway of their prize, " when you find them silver dollars, just let us know, will you? "
The weather, which was getting dirtier as the night went on, and the perilous situation of the yacht upon a lee shore, had probably driven them to attempt a landing at the earliest possible moment.
I drifted on through the midst of this passionate music and motion, across many a glen, from ridge to ridge; often halting in the lee of a rock for shelter, or to gaze and listen.
十九世纪冒险故事 Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea by James O. Brayman
As Captain Spinnet ceased speaking, the pirate luffed under the fisherman's lee-quarter, and, in a moment more, the latter's deck was graced with the presence of a dozen as savage-looking mortals as eyes ever rested upon.
We were noticing this, and saying how that the mist rose with a change of wind from a certain quarter of our marshes, when we came upon a man, slouching under the lee of the turnpike house.