"Aweather" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was so fresh and the water so rough. She wore, and crowded sail on the opposite tack, in order to try her speed with the cruiser; nor was it until the result sufficiently showed the danger of permitting the other to get any nigher, that she finally put her helm aweather, and ran off, like a sea-fowl resting on its wing, with the wind ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper |
