Although caught in a gale in the Channel, Drake held on, and, reaching Gibraltar on the 16th April, ascertained that Cadiz was crowded with transports and store-ships.
But the tide has turned now, and as it makes over the sand there will be a tremendous sea here in no time; that is if this wind holds, and it seems to me that it is going to be an unusual gale altogether.
The next morning, although the wind was still strong, the fury of the gale had abated.
Like enough," the sailor replied; "a gale like this is like to blow itself out in twenty-four hours.
Mrs. Vickars held up her hands in astonishment at their shrunken garments; but her relief from the anxiety she had felt concerning what had befallen them during the gale was so great that she was unable to scold.
They were closely wrapped up in cloaks, and as they passed, with their heads bent down to meet the force of the gale and their broad-brimmed hats pulled low down over their eyes, the boys did not get even a glimpse of their features.
It is not blowing now quite so hard as it did, and by the morning I reckon, though there may be a fresh wind, the gale will be over.
If the gale had continued to blow until now we should have been on shore long before this.
When the gale abated the natives went down to collect the stores driven ashore, and I found on the beach one of her boats washed up almost uninjured, so nothing would do but I must sail away in her.
On the 12th a hard frost set in, and until Christmas a strong gale from the south-east blew.
They are lubberly craft, and badly handled; and if this gale lasts for three days we shall be down on the Barbary coast, and I would rather risk another journey through Spain than get down so near the country of the Moors.
One of the ships was abandoned and the others put to sea, only to be dashed ashore in the same gale that wrecked Our Lady of the Rosary, and of all their crews only one hundred and fifty men were cast ashore alive.
However, one need not begin to worry one's self at present; the gale may abate within a few hours.
The wind rolled up into a gale that seemed to strike from all sides at once.
And his the Viking sky boat that first dared the fierce gale of the wind path!
Three times, the multiple raging of the gale engendered by the tempest swinging upward through the gorges, told Hal that he was crossing mountain ranges.
A gale of good things will come to us--hopes, communions and inspirations.
The Panther ran into a galein that storm-crucible off Hatteras.
Burke shook his head sympathetically, as a sudden galeswept round the house.
In a little time more the gale lessened, and the sea no longer ran so perilously high as before.
While we were at work, the clouds opened, the sky in the horizon cleared slightly, and there were evident signs of the gale breaking.
As the sun rose, the gale also abated; and I considered that there would be no danger in leaving Eva and the little black girl on board, while the rest of us went farther to explore the country.
Fairburn kept his eye carefully ranging round the horizon, to look out for any signs of coming wind; for we could not but suspect that this calm was the forerunner of a hurricane, or a gale of wind of some sort.
There had been plenty of time for them to get on board; but I questioned whether they had remained there, or endeavoured to return on shore before the gale came on.
It was now daylight; a heavygale was blowing, and the sea was running very high.
Half the reefs aren't charted, the tides run any way, and when the gale drops, the fog shuts down thicker than a blanket.
They made some four knots in each of the next thirty hours, with the gale on their starboard bow.
Still, I suppose he did it cheerfully; and you may find it necessary to bring those bush-ranchers' produce down against a gale of wind.
Then I'm going to have a good-humored skipper who'll bring the men off and make friends with them, but one with grit enough to shove the boat round on time when she has a perishable freight in a gale of wind.
Saying this, Gypsy Ladin closed the porch door, but not without difficulty, for a gale was battering upon the wayside bungalow.
It was fine to be striding along a ridgeway with a roaring gale behind, and every wayside tree whistling like a ships rigging in a storm.
A great gale was blowing and the ship was hove to.
The usual Sunday gale was blowing and we were dodging about under canvas all day.
I saw, with the glass, seals by the thousand; they were principally to the north of us, and it was evident that we would fill the ship, unless a gale broke up the ice too soon.
They were in every direction and one could easily understand the hopelessness of a sailing ship's position, beset in these waters, with a gale driving bergs down upon her.
Really in a heavy gale the storm holds a ship down to some extent.
The following day a strong gale was blowing with snow and the engines were slowed down.
Immediately after tea, I went to my room as we were crossing the bar and going out into a gale of wind.
A direct course was then steered for the land, but owing to the gale ten hours elapsed before it was reached.
On the 11th, we had a strong gale with a dark and cloudy sky.
A few hours later and the gale sprang up afresh, and as there were still no signs of land, the crew resigned themselves to the fate which they deemed to be inevitable.
There was a regular little gale this day, so we kept in open water, with the main yard aback and the fires banked.
The order was instantly obeyed, however; but the gale was so heavy and the boat so large that headway could not be made.
Loud and clear were both the signals, but four and a half miles of distance and a fresh gale neutralised their influence.
It was not a recent gale that had caused all this damage.
It is not an easy matter to sit up in a gale of wind, with freezing spray, and sometimes green seas, sweeping over one!
Thick fog banks came sweeping past at intervals; a cold north-easterly gale conveyed a wintry feeling to the air.
The report of the gun could not be heard, owing to the gale carrying the sound to leeward, but the bright line of the rocket was distinctly visible.
In such a sea the boat was tossed as if she were a chip; but the gale gave her speed, and speed gave her quick steering power.
As the evening advanced the gale increased in violence tenfold, and darkness settled down like an impenetrable pall over land and sea.
Although the gale was still blowing fresh it had moderated greatly.
The father was lost in a gale at the herrings, and the mawther had to fend for the lot of us.
The wind was indeed blowing a gale and all of the boys hurried forward faster than ever, until they stood in the midst of their camp.
It was dark and blowing a full gale when the four young hunters embarked.
During the night a heavy gale set in, however, and when day broke upon the heaving ocean the Constellation was nowhere to be seen.
The gale was surely lessening, and with nine picked men, eight to row and one to steer, it could and should be done.
It seemed as if the storm-fiend were satisfied with the mischief he had accomplished, for immediately after the disaster just described, the gale began to moderate, and when the sun rose it had been reduced to a stiff but steady breeze.
It is not during a calm like this that we run risk, but when the gale begins to blow we cannot hear, and shall not, perhaps, see very well.
Let no man act without orders, whatever happens," said the captain in a deep powerful voice which was heard over the whole ship, for the lull that we have mentioned extended in some degree to the gale as well as to the volcano.
By degrees the gale increased in fury, and it soon became evident that neither sails nor cordage could long withstand the strain to which they were subjected.
About midnight of the 28th the gale was at its worst.
Even before this had been well accomplished a stiff breeze was tearing up the surface of the sea into wild foam, which a furious gale soon raised into raging billows.
We had a fine stiff sailing breeze, and he crowded on every stitch of canvas we could use, although the flagship, which had never been properly repaired since the gale which had dismasted her off Toulon, was hardly in a condition to bear it.
It blew a strong gale on the night of the 22nd, when we sailed from Naples, and the next day.
They might, it was true, be blown many miles off the shore, and not be able to get back for some time, for the gale might last two or three days.
At this meeting Governor Charles Eden was present, and serving with him were the Honorable Thomas Byrd, and Nathaniel Chevin, of Pasquotank, and Christopher Gale and Francis Foster, all deputies of the Proprietors.
A south-west galenow set in, and delayed our reaching Cape Horn until the 16th, when we anchored off the entrance of St. Martin's Cove and found the Chanticleer moored within.
Towards midnight the gale broke; by the next morning the weather was more moderate; and from that time it continued fine, until our arrival at Chiloe.
A strong gale prevented our going outside, but in hopes that there might be an inland passage I set out to look for one.
In the early part of June we had a gale of wind from the N.
Bad weather, blowing a gale of wind and raining nearly all the day.
We had a heavygale throughout this day with much rain.
The day after our arrival, the gale subsided, and the weather became very fine indeed.
On the 3d, the gale was most violent, and the williwaws became short hurricanes, in some of which the ship drifted and fouled her anchors.
The gale continued with unabated violence during the 6th, 7th, and 8th, from the north, N.
On the 13th and 14th, a heavy gale confined us to our cove, into which such numbers of wild-fowl came, for shelter I suppose, that we shot as many as we wanted.
The breeze began to sigh and moan through the trees and chimney-stacks of Malory shortly after sunset, and in another hour it came on to blow a gale from the northwest.
The gale had nearly stripped the trees of their ruddy honours, and thrifty Thomas Jones had, no doubt, carried the spoil away to store them in the apple-closet.
It was bitter work watching with the gale in your teeth, but I might have noticed it less had the ambush been a little nearer the water.
There, hidden from all eyes and from the bright lights of the frosty sky, I curled up in the cup of dry spines with my brush about my nose, and heedless of the gale that raged above but could not reach me, forgot my troubles in sleep.
Clouds of dust obscured the sun at intervals, and the sharp-edged gravel driven before the galecut like tiny knives.
I am that spark, sir, though now raked up in ashes; Yet when it pleaseth fortune's chaps to blow Some gentler gale upon me, I may then From forth of embers rise and shine again.
Higher rose the wind, heavier rolled the sea, yet never a drop of water did we ship, nor did anything about the deck betoken what a heavy gale was blowing.
The gale gradually blew itself out, leaving behind only a long and very heavy swell to denote the deep-reaching disturbance that the ocean had endured.
Then came, from the other direction, a huge steamship, taking no more notice of the gale than as if it were calm.
We were all gathered about the fo'lk'sle scuttle one evening, a few days after the gale referred to above, and the question of whale-fishing came up for discussion.
Unless there is a gale behind it, a grass-fire does not move with much celerity, and that night the one that menaced Leland's crop seemed inordinately slow to those who watched it.
There are places where the prairie runs dead level from horizon to horizon, but here and there it lifts in long, gentle rises, as the ocean does when the swell of a past gale disturbs its oily surface.
