dead ahead

For one breakneck moment Monday, she looked dead ahead and saw her husband surfing toward her, and then down toward the rocks.

The clouds that had been above them lay dead ahead; the ship was pointing straight upward.

The big whistle boomed again, dead ahead, and so much nearer that it provoked the skipper to lash out a round oath.

But the next whistle they heard sounded dead ahead, and increased in volume of sound only gradually.

"You're right," said the planter, who had not observed that the strong wind would be dead ahead all the way to the anchorage.

I headed the Warrington toward the new position, and at three A.M. picked up Wellington dead ahead.