larboard

How To Use larboard In A Sentence

• Its charge of langrage swept the French ship from her larboard bow to her starboard quarter, and struck down in an instant twenty-four men. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
• Walking to larboard, he tipped the bucket over watching the crab sail down the side of Indefatigable, back from whence it came.
• He let out a sigh, tucked the new information aside, and stepped to join the conversation taking place to larboard.
• For the past ten hours Hornblower had overseen the changing of course from the larboard to the starboard tack, seeking to gain the latitude of Gibraltar, then sail straight in on a rhumb line.
• And th 'end was the larboard halyards broke, an' the mare gybed, an 'to Torrington I went before the wind, wi' an unseemly bloody nose. The Splendid Spur
• Three men were at the back of the cannon ready to push, another two stood by with blocks to put behind the wheels to keep it from rolling back to larboard, and another two stood ready with lengths of lumber to hold the block in place.
• The young woman nodded, and turned away from the larboard.
• We then discovered the sternmost ship wearing also; wore ship immediately after her, and gave her a stern rake, she luffing to on our starboard bow and giving us her larboard broadside. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
• Accordingly we went about-ship, got our larboard tacks on board, set the top-gallant sails, and crowded for the bay of All Saints, where we came to an anchor early in the morning, just out of gunshot of the forts; we furled our sails with rope-yarns, that we might haul home the sheets without going up to loose them, and, lowering our main and fore-yards, looked just as if we had lain there a good while. The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
• If cable-laid, the tails lie aft on the larboard side and forward on the starboard side; shroud-laid the opposite.