A head wind; passed the Isle of Man and Calf-lights at 4 p.
Firth of Clyde, with one hundred and seventy passengers on board, westerly, and a head wind, making eight knots an hour.
Saturday the 7th gave us the most conflicting winds, and although we were upon the waters of Kluk-tas-si, for twelve hours we made but nine miles, a head wind driving us into Camp 22.
This continuous drifting against a head wind taught us one singular thing, however, viz.
From here up the River La Plata we went so slowly on account of head wind that we did not anchor in the roads of Buenos Aires till the afternoon of the 23rd, almost exactly at the same time as the Chief landed at Buenos Aires.
After passing the Falkland Islands we had a head wind, so that the last part of the trip was nothing to boast of.
What I wrote when there was a head wind or calm, I should be sorry to reproduce.
When we left the northern basin on the morning of October 5, there was a head wind, and it was not till twenty-four hours later that we could drop the pilot at the Recalada lightship.
Even in this simple illustration it seems to me that Professor Thomson is wrong, for he is pre-supposing that which he does not state--a head wind.
We beat all day to the north against a head wind, and made but slow progress.
We beat against a head wind yesterday, and made but little progress.
We entered the harbor of Talcahuana at ten o'clock in the morning, and spent the remainder of the day in beating up to the town against a head wind, a distance of about twenty miles.
Upon rounding the second bend the head wind became a stern wind, driving us on at a jolly clip until nightfall.
It is played when a low ball is wanted to cut its way through a head wind, and for the proper explanation of this useful stroke I have supplied a special series of photographs from which it may be studied to advantage.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "head wind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
