On the 10th we had an easterly wind, which, gradually freshening to a gale, drew up the Strait from the southward, and blew strong for twentyfour hours from that quarter.
On the morning of the 25th we had again an easterly wind, which in a few hours reduced us to the close-reefed topsails and reefed courses.
In the afternoon it blew a hard gale, with constant rain, from the northward, the clouds indicating an easterly wind in other parts.
Why cæteris paribus the Mercury stands highest upon an Easterly or North-Easterly Wind?
The next day was dull, the sun being quite obscured; and the only check upon the steering was the south-easterly wind.
All next day the 'Aurora' steamed into the eye of an easterly wind towards a low white island, the higher positions of which had been seen by the German Expedition of 1902, and charted as Drygalski's High Land.
A fresh south-easterly wind blew on February 14, and the ship was kept in the shelter of the iceberg.
Snowing heavily all day, easterly wind: impossible to travel as nothing can be seen more than ten to twelve yards away.
The Barrier here runs east and west, and with a south-easterly wind we went along it to the east.
Conflans made his preparations with activity, distributed Bompart's crews among his own ships, which were not very well manned, and got to sea with an easterly wind on the 14th.
On the 19th the English fleet repassed the straits with an easterly wind, having within a week's time fulfilled its mission, and made Gibraltar safe for another year.
Melancholy is a kind of Demon that haunts our Island, and often conveys her self to us in an Easterly Wind.
The Lady Blast, you must understand, has such a particular Malignity in her Whisper, that it blights like an Easterly Wind, and withers every Reputation that it breathes upon.
The Infirmary was indeed never so full as on this Day, which I was at some loss to account for, till upon my going Abroad I observed that it was an Easterly Wind.
As it is not possible for the ships to sail from Brest but with an easterly wind, which blows directly out of this bay, we can always be beforehand with them.
During their absence a fog spread about us, carried up the valleys by easterly wind.
Since one must have hope, ours is pinned to the possible effect of a continuance of easterly wind.
The question is, will they open more with an easterly or south-easterly wind--that is the hope.
As usual, high temperatures and wet fog accompanied these northerly winds, though the fog disappeared on the afternoon of January 25, and we had the unusual spectacle of bright hot sun with a north-easterly wind.
After two more days our fortune changed, and a strong north-easterly wind brought "a beastly cold, windy day" and drove us back three and a quarter miles.
As if to make up for this, an equally strong north-easterly wind sprang up next day, and not only stopped our northward drift but set us back three miles to the south.
An easterly wind lifts and turns them to dark, cumulus clouds, settled on the frosty crown, like an old man's winter cap; the physiognomical expression is that of anger.
I can not, within the limits I have prescribed, allude to all the peculiarities attending the induction and attraction of an easterly wind, by the storm in the counter-trade.
On the 10th we had an easterly wind, which, gradually freshening to a gale, drew up the Strait from the southward, and blew strong for twenty-four hours from that quarter.
In speaking of the direction of currents of air and water, the indicating terms are employed in an inverse sense, an easterly wind signifying a breeze coming from that quarter, an easterly stream a flow of water toward it.
An instance of irregularity occurs along the coasts of Peru and Chili, where the general direction of the wind is south, and a steady south-easterly wind is only experienced at the distance of five or six hundred miles from the shore.
Thus, along the immense low tract drained by the Amazon an easterly wind prevails, by the assistance of which, the voyager is enabled to ascend rapidly against the strong current of the river.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "easterly wind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
