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I desired the captain to tack about and keep the sea, but he would not listen to me.

I was hoping all the time to see the balloon tacking about and waiting for me.

"Practically we shall be able to tack about in space just as we wish.

We in the salmon boat, sailing close on the wind, tacked about and crossed the ship's bow.

Such indeed she was, and had been tacking about the world in unavailing pursuit, from the time of his first taking to a roving life.

An order was given; the Nautilus tacked about and left the furnace it could not brave with impunity.

"It tacked about an hour onto a four-day jury trial," said Mr. Morrison, the prosecutor.

Kramnik won from Kasparov in the first round, after sharp opening play, by tacking about while his opponent's patience cracked and he ventured a suicidal counterattack.

The Sea Man motioned Elgion out of the tiller seat, and deftly tacked about "I saw fire lizards about the Dragon Stones.

Hope trebled my strength, I cleft the waves with superhuman vigor, and had got so near the yacht that I was scarcely thirty fathoms off, when it tacked about.

I understand your grief, Jaxom, Ruth said quietly, his head, like that of every other dragon, watching the scene below as the ships tacked about for their return to Cove Hold.

In the second round in Las Vegas, paired with the Danish grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen, she took her time, tacking about, before she landed the telling blows.

Then they darted around her bow and began the row down her port side, and we tacked about, crossed her bow, and went plunging down the wind hot after them.

Over near St. Helen's Point a King's ship was making her way down the channel, while a single large brig was tacking about a quarter of a mile or less from where we lay.

Probing, tacking about and then grinding his way through stubborn opposition, Gary Kasparov bounced back yesterday to defeat the king of the chess computers, Deep Blue, in the Philadelphia Convention Center.

In the light baffling airs the schooner had been tacking about a great deal, at which times the sails pass from one side to the other and a man is sent aloft to shift over the fore- gaff-topsail.

The Bautista attempted to take advantage of an ebb tide and sail south out of the sound, but ended up tacking about on the flood tide to avoid the numerous reefs, before sailing through the north-west passage.

Gaetano consulted with his companions, and after five minutes' discussion a manoeuvre was executed which caused the vessel to tack about, they returned the way they had come, and in a few minutes the fire disappeared, hidden by an elevation of the land.

The squadron reached Santiago de Cuba, and after tacking about for several days, either for the purpose of deceiving the enemy, or of waiting a decision as to the landing-place, finally approached Baiquiri, which had been selected for the landing.

"You are mad, Bastiano; we have not been able ever since the morning to get near Vico, and have been obliged to keep tacking about; your skill and strength have been able to do nothing against this frightful hurricane which has driven us back to this point."

The duke's attendants, since the previous evening, had traveled in advance, and now chartered a boat, for the purpose of joining the yacht, which had been tacking about in sight, or bore broadside on, whenever it felt its white wings wearied, within cannon-shot of the jetty.