leeside
Example Sentences
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The addition of a foehn affect - a warming wind on the leeside of a mountian - meant that north-west Wales saw the highest temperatures.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The deck was like the wall of a house, and, when I saw the foaming sea rising up on the leeside as high as the hatches, I felt sure she was turning bottom up.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
Sometimes, and more than once too often, he composed, to use his own expression, "by the leeside of a bowl of punch, which had overset every mortal in company, except the hautbois and the muse."
From Methods of Authors by Erichsen, Hugo
The earth trembles; the hillock, on the leeside of which we are, rocks and shakes; and the air grows thick and suffocating—full of dust and saltpetre and sulphur.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
We hurried over to the leeside of the rock, and at once embarked the two women with the infant, who seemed to be totally exhausted.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles
