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Example sentences for "fair breeze"

  • Just then, up sprung a fair breeze, and Thrain and his men sailed out to sea.

  • Then Kolbein took Hrapp on board, and a little while after a fair breeze sprung up, and they sailed away on the sea.

  • So they rowed out under an isle that lay there, and wait there for a fair breeze.

  • Just then up sprung a fair breeze, and Thrain and his men sailed out to sea.

  • For three weeks the squadron lay in this sheltered harbour, unable to proceed on account of contrary winds, but at length a fair breeze springing up, they cleared the passage on the 24th of February, and entered the Pacific.

  • Sailing thence on the 28th of June, with fine weather and a fair breeze, they proceeded on their voyage.

  • At length we were in the open ocean, and, with a fair breeze, we steered to the westward.

  • However, he did not move his paddle, and we were soon out at sea, steering with a fair breeze to the eastward.

  • I was very thankful when I went on deck to find the schooner running on with a fair breeze, and no land anywhere in sight.

  • The Wolf, with a fair breeze, having her prize in tow, shaped a course for Plymouth.

  • Running on all day with a fair breeze, before nightfall they had entered the Java sea.

  • There was the broad, clear land-water within a third of a mile of me, clear weather, and a fair breeze blowing.

  • On the night of the 6th a pleasant, fair breeze sprang up, and enabled us to dispense with the engine.

  • If we could set all these we should do well, supposing we got a fair breeze.

  • We soon afterwards got under way with a fair breeze, and before night had left Sumburgh Head, the lofty point which forms the southern end of the Shetland Islands, far astern.

  • A fair breeze carried us along at the rate of four or five knots an hour.

  • We were about the latitude of Barbadoes, when, having run on during most of the night with a fair breeze, towards morning it dropped altogether, and we found ourselves rolling away in a tropical calm.

  • We had been five days at sea, and a fair breeze, though somewhat light at times, had sent us tolerably well on our course.

  • The headsheets were let draw, the main eased off a little, the peak hoisted up, and, with a fair breeze, the cutter glided out of the harbour.

  • Because the sun shines sometimes, and we have a fair breeze, we must not suppose that the sun will always be shining, or that we shall at all times enjoy a favourable wind.

  • Once more the anchor was hove up, and with a fair breeze we ran past the Nore, and stood down Channel under all sail.

  • Sometimes they get a fair breeze, and run before it for many days; and then they fall into a calm, and have to float about doing nothing, or they are driven back by contrary winds, and lose all the ground they have gained.

  • Of course it was provoking to have to lose so much of a fair breeze, but the ship was, I found, very far from being in a proper condition to put to sea.

  • We were going rapidly down the Thames with a fair breeze, and had actually set sail for the distant shores of Hudson Bay.

  • Mr Carles, young Wiseacre, and I gladly availed ourselves of the opportunity, and were soon sailing with a fair breeze up Hayes River.

  • The anchor was hove up, the topsails hoisted, and with a fair breeze we stood to the southward.

  • The Andorinha was just ready to sail, and as we had a fair breeze, we did not stop at Para, but proceeded at once to sea.

  • Directly we were on board she got under weigh, and with a fair breeze we stood down Plymouth Sound.

  • At daylight, as we had a fair breeze, all sail was again set, and we stood gaily on our course.

  • In spite of the poor fellows suffering below, and the number of shipmates we had lost, we felt very happy as with a fair breeze we sailed in through the Needles, our well-won prize following in our wake.

  • Point after point was recognised and welcomed, as, with a fair breeze, we ran up Channel.

  • Had the gale continued, I believe that we should all of us really have been knocked up, but happily we very quickly ran out of it, and once more we had smooth water and a fair breeze.

  • By the time we reached the Chops of the Channel, having a fair breeze, we were looking out every instant to make the land, when a big ship hove in sight, standing directly across our course.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bare rock; fair average; fair breeze; fair face; fair fight; fair idea; fair knowledge; fair lady; fair price; fair proportion; fair prospect; fair quality; fair readers; fair show; fair start; fair water; fair weather; fair young; fairly large; fairly well; fish catch; great weight; her little; received many; said the young woman; third term