However, though a light southerly breeze carried the noise made by the seventy tanks on the move towards the enemy, there was between 2 A.
If, however, there was a strong breeze blowing, the wind would catch them and alter their flight considerably.
Before this steady breeze he sailed for three months and twenty days over the boundless waste of waters, his crews reduced to the last extremity by famine and scurvy, till he reached the Ladrone Islands.
Rio is now a pleasant place of residence in winter, and the sea-breeze makes the climate agreeable in all but the hottest months, during which Europeans find it debilitating.
No sound except the sighing of the breeze round the cliff and the splash of the wavelets as they break on the pebbly beach beneath.
The morning was brilliant with blue wavelets sparkling under a lightbreeze as we passed out to the east and saw the low, flat bluff of Cape Virgenes sink below the horizon.
It was very still, a tiny breeze whispered in the pines and drifted across his face the sweet perfume of a flowering shrub.
The breeze dropped gradually and finally died away, but for an hour or more the refreshing coolness lingered.
The breeze died away and it was quite still within the moonlit clearing.
The hour was eight o'clock in the morning of a cloudless March day; the fitful land-breeze had died away, leaving the whole surface of the sea like billowy glass.
Her light sails winged to catch every breath of the light but steadybreeze that chased her astern, the cutter for some hours bowled through the water merrily.
The breezewas so light and fitful that it barely ruffled the surface of the sea about the schooner.
It was now five o'clock, and as day broke the cutter, with a freshening breeze on her starboard quarter, bore away for the island, now in full view.
Countless banners, pennons, and gonfalons flaunted in the breezefrom the masts and riggings of his many galleys.
A soft breeze from over the moorland played with the silvery locks of the old man's bare head.
Presently a breeze sprang up; Stubb feigned to cast off from the whale; hoisting his boats, the Frenchman soon increased his distance, while the Pequod slid in between him and Stubb's whale.
The strong unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind.
Steering as she had done, the wind had been somewhat on the Pequod's quarter, so that now being pointed in the reverse direction, the braced ship sailed hard upon the breeze as she rechurned the cream in her own white wake.
Three points on the starboard bow, sir, and bringing down her breeze to us!
Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.
It was a bright, sunny day, with a gentle breeze blowing from the south; the roads were smooth, and the motor throbbed along throwing the miles behind her, and the dust in the faces of those whom they passed on their way.
It is a pleasant place in which to live, where, in winter, the air is warm, and in summer a cool breeze from the ocean tempers the hottest day.
The surf always runs very high when a strong breeze is blowing, and under these circumstances vessels are expected to load and unload.
A fresh breeze called the chandny blows over the ice-capped mountains, and brings health to a city which would otherwise be uninhabitable.
But here's hoping that breeze keeps acoming from that same quarter all the night, because then we can plan better.
Thad told them; "and there, you can hear it louder than before, which would seem to indicate either that the breeze is getting stronger right along, or else the dog is heading this way.
Then from the south arose a gentle breeze That curl'd the smoothness of the glassy seas; The rising winds a ruffling gale afford, And call the merry mariners aboard.
From land a gentle breeze arose by night, Serenely shone the stars, the moon was bright, And the sea trembled with her silver light.
He raised the boughs, but nothing was to be seen, for the bungalow was hidden by the smoke and mist now being borne by the faint breeze of the coming daylight in their direction.
Yes," said Archie; "and when the soft breeze blows over them it seems to sweep them all out.
His high spirits affected them like sunshine after dark days, like a breeze after a calm at sea, like the swing of a boat after the first dip of the oar.
A gentle breeze from the land had arisen, full of sweet fragrance and a healing freshness, and, bright over head, in the blessed heavens, blossomed fresh the eternal host of the stars.
It was an airy structure, with numerous openings, and the breeze played sweetly and capriciously among the coverlets which hung as curtains before the several places of egress and entrance.
A gentle breeze set all the leaves to fluttering; far off a woodpecker drummed his salute to his fellows; beyond the trees we could hear the indigo bird singing; but nothing about us was stirring.
The Wind clan of the Omahas flap their blankets to start a breeze which will drive away the mosquitoes.
Windbound fishermen walked sunwise round the chapel and then poured water on the stone, whereupon a favourable breeze was sure to spring up.
In a few minutes after shivering, we were all complaining of heat again, and then luxuriating in the cool breeze as we steamed slowly under the great purple Traunstein.
A bright sunny spring morning, every little leaf looking up in gladness, and just that soft sighing breeze in the garden, with a freshness of newly-watered earth and dewy flowers, which is always associated with Lime in my mind.
I shall so love to see and know all you are doing, and to watch over you; and when you hear a little breeze go rustling by, you must think it is the old Mother still near you.
Therefore there is something like the glory of daybreak in the tones of Mozart's opera; it is wafted towards us like the morning breezewhich dispels the shadows and invokes the sun.
I stood at my tent door, and I thought of many things, though little of the matters which had brought me there; a faint cool breeze fanned my brow, and about me was that great peace which comes to Egypt with the touch of night.
What though the breeze that is darkening the water there is coming on right ahead?
But then if it is a fine thing to go bowling along with a brisk breeze on our beam, it is very different when we get round Ardshiel and find the southerly wind veering to meet us dead in the teeth.
Northward, and still northward, the light breeze tempering the scorching sunlight that glares on the sails and the deck.
Harder and harder blows this fresh breeze from the north; and we are racing down the Sound with the driven waves.
The breeze had quite gone; the calm sea slowly rolled.
But then this stiff breeze had backed to the west; and there was many a long tack to be got over before we left behind the Atlantic swell and ran clear into the Sound.
They seem very anxious to have everything put right against his coming," he says; "at all events, your captain seems to think that every good breeze he gets is merely thrown away on us.
And we will try to get a good breeze for him this time, mem--and not to have the calm weather.
I wass sure we would get a good breeze for Mr. Sutherland when he will come back to the yat.
We will give Mr. Sutherland a goodbreeze or two when he comes back to the yat.
So once more we get the vessel under way; and the breeze is beginning to blow somewhat more briskly; and we notice with hopefulness that there is rougher water further down the Sound.
The golden afternoon is not yet far advanced; let but this brave breeze continue, and soon they will descry the White Dove from the far heights of Castle Osprey!
As they paused breathless half-way down on the landing, they heard no sound save the loud ticking of the clock in the hall below and the gentle whispering of the breeze without.
The night, after the bright day, had set in raw and cold; a damp breeze blew from the southwest, and gave promise both of wind and rain.
The faint breeze she had made for herself expired, as if all at once the air had become too thick to budge; even the slight hiss of the water on her stem died out.
There was no breeze to swing the branches of the trees or to creep among the rank grasses and set them dancing, and yet everywhere there was unceasing movement and a sound that never ceased.
While the guests were marveling how these trees, that must have required at least a century to grow, could have come to be so tall and venerable in a single night, a breeze sprang up, and set their intermingled boughs astir.
Before long a thick bed of reeds sprang up in the meadow, and as soon as it had gained its growth, began whispering the story, and has continued to do so, from that day to this, with every breeze which passes over the place.
The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week.
A fresh breeze had sprung up, and filled the darkening room with the odor of honeysuckle.
Now and then, a slight breeze stirred the branches, causing a shower of sparkling atoms to rise in the air, like miniature rainbows.
The heat of the midday sun was tempered by a breeze from the east, which threw across the fields and woods the shadows of the white fleecy clouds.
A fine western breeze was whistling through the leafless branches of the vine, and Mr. Vale drew in a long breath of the invigorating air.
