Sentence: Off he goes, tacking about like a ship against the wind, as if he would knock holes in the walls and windows wi his elbows he looked as fierce as a lion, with a red face like a trumpeter, and his nose was like a bubbly jocks neb, as blue as a blawart but or he wan half way hame his head turned heavier than his heels and mony a filthy fa he got, through thick and thin he plashed, till hame he gets at last, grunting and gaping by the wall, when auld Mary thought it was their nibours sow, he was sae bedaubed wi dirt by the time she got him to bed, he was in a boilingbarrel fever, and poor Mary grat wi grief.
Combination: a ship against the wind (root: ship, modifier: wind)
Property: struggle
Property type: emergent