They brought up in another harbour just in time to escape a heavy gale, and then proceeded to the south, towards Cape George, to determine the shape of the land.
The ships did not alter their course an hour too soon, for that night a heavy gale sprang up which would have rendered their position very dangerous.
Soon after this a heavy gale sprang up, which lasted several days.
During a heavy gale, I ascended the highest hill, near the sea, and noticed many rocks, on which the sea was breaking, that I had not seen before.
It was soon evident that the river was large, and, returning to his ship, he lost no time in anchoring her within the entrance, where she rode out a heavy gale from S.
This afternoon it blew a heavy gale, but in such a sheltered place we only felt a few williwaws.
A ship lying-to in a heavy gale, and making bad weather of it.
Driving under a heavy gale, such as forces a ship to run before it without any canvas set.
A superstitious practice among old seamen, who are equally scrupulous to avoid whistling during a heavy gale.
The English fleet was dispersed by a heavy gale, when Admiral Byron alone succeeded in reaching the American coast.
The Resolution had been much shattered a few days before in a heavy gale of wind, and was at no time a fast sailer.
Happily for them, on the fifth night after they had been taken, a heavy gale sprang up.
It still blew a heavy gale, but the sky cleared up, the stars again twinkled in the heavens, and we could see to a considerable distance.
The weather soon became very bad, and we were scudding before a heavy gale, under bare poles.
With a half-dismasted ship, a heavy gale in prospect, and a lee shore, there is much to be done; but the great peril is over.
So hopeless, so utterly desperate had been their situation that morning, that all the danger of a lee shore, all the discomforts of a small vessel during a heavy gale at sea, were forgotten.
The staysails, too, as the vessel fell into the deep trough of the angry waves, would flap with a report like distant thunder; in a word, all the discomforts of a heavy gale in a small vessel were making themselves felt.
But we encountered a heavy gale of wind, which, after a fortnight (during which we attempted in vain to make head against it), forced us back to Smyrna.
We sailed with a fine breeze; but a heavy gale came on, which tossed us about for many days, and the master of the vessel had no idea to where she had been driven.
But a heavy gale came on from the southward, which drove all the ice together, and our ship with it, and we were in great danger of being squeezed to atoms.
Scarcely was the fleet free of the Channel than, a heavy gale springing up, the Surge was separated from her consorts, and proceeded on her voyage alone.
A heavy galeof wind set in from the northeast and continued to increase in fury as the night approached; consequently the surf was getting worse and it was very difficult for the boats to get clear of the beach.
Away we went, leaving the anchor behind, and then came the hard work in earnest---beating off a lee shore in a heavy gale of wind.
In a few days we were rounding Cape Hatteras and a heavy gale came up.
Soon after he parted company from us a heavy gale sprang up from the eastward, and he was blown off the land.
The Tudor and Supplejack had crossed the line, and had got some way to the southward, when a heavy gale came on, such as is not often experienced in those latitudes.
Soon after the captain was taken aboard the privateer, she was chased by an English frigate during a heavy gale.
As to the accident on board, it was one of those things that too often occur in a heavy gale, and that cannot be provided against.
Scarcely had we got clear of the Gulf when we fell in with bad weather; and about ten days afterwards, a heavy gale sprung up from the westward.
The sky was full of the unmistakable signs of a heavy gale.
Foul winds and a heavy gale made us stand a good way to the westward on our passage home, after getting clear of the Gut.
Kerguelen, had discovered land in 48 degrees South, near the meridian of Mauritius, but after sailing along the coast for about forty miles, he had been blown off by a heavy gale, in which he had lost both boats and men.
Of course this pleasant break was followed by a heavy gale, with a tremendously heavy sea, and the ship ran before it for New Zealand.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heavy gale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
