A tincture of rusty red hovered like smoke coloured by the furnace that produces it, in the west, but the night had drawn down quick and dark; the washing noise of the water was sharp, the wind piercingly cold; each sweep of the schooner's masts to windward was followed by a dull roaring of the blast rushing out of the hollows of the canvas, and she swung to the seas with wild yaws, but with regularity sufficient to prove the strict government of the helm.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
I told you my name was Bill, not Bibby; and I never yaws from my course, although I heaves to sometimes, as I do now, to take in provisions."
"The Pacha of Many Tales"
Captain Frederick Marryat
"He yaws broadly, as if disposed to give up the search.
"The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas"
James Fenimore Cooper