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Example sentences for "high wind"

  • Yearly, in the time of a high wind, they kindled a fire in the dry prairie, that their deliverer might enjoy the glorious prospect of seeing it swept by the devouring flame.

  • They will yearly kindle a fire in the time of a high wind, that their deliverer may have the glorious prospect of seeing the dry prairie swept by the devouring flame.

  • A horse which has never been out with the hawks before is likely to be very much put out by the ringing of the hawk's bell, and still more if she also flutters her wings in a high wind.

  • High wind, dangerous in a camp under trees.

  • We, however, lay to at a sand bank a little further down on the opposite side, and there passed a cold night, without fire or covering, in a high wind.

  • On account of the {220} high wind we did not leave this spot to-day, and the chase gave us much employment.

  • From midnight Sunday until 3 o'clock Monday morning a drenching rain fell at intervals, while a high wind added a melancholy accompaniment, whistling and sighing about the ruins of the buildings in the burned district.

  • Once a high wind blew it down, and the women of the Fair family then had it restored so firmly that it would resist anything.

  • The buildings on a high slope between Van Ness and Polk, Union and Filbert streets were blazing fiercely, fanned by a high wind, but the blocks were so sparsely settled that the fire had but a slender chance of crossing Van Ness at that point.

  • Suddenly a high wind rose, which made the house shake; and five puny devils resembling ragged boys entered the circle, followed by Bodenham's dog and cat.

  • If a high wind sprang up when a body was being consumed by flames, it was regarded as a favourable omen.

  • Nature seemed to have lashed itself into a rage: a high wind, such as had never been heard before by the oldest inhabitants, unroofed houses on land, and caused wrecks at sea.

  • He launched his glider from a cliff into the teeth of the wind, showing thereby his knowledge of the fact that a glider works best when flown against a high wind, because in that way the air is passing under it at greater speed.

  • The plants will need the support of stakes to save them from injury in a high wind.

  • Gladioli== are very liable to injury by high wind, and stakes should be put to them in good time.

  • Whatever method is adopted, care should be taken to avoid cutting the plant, while holding it secure from damage in a high wind.

  • From the night of our return to March 8 there was a high wind accompanied by much drift; for some hours it continued at eighty miles per hour, the mean temperature being about 15 degrees F.

  • Mertz, Ninnis, and Mawson erecting the tent in a high wind A later stage in erection of the tent in a wind (one man is inside) Dr.

  • It sounds simple enough, but, as we had to take off crampons so as not to tread on the tent, our difficulties were enormously increased by having to move about wearing finnesko on a smooth surface in a high wind.

  • After this he howled, making a high wind arise.

  • He always sent word to the tribe when there was to be a high wind or heavy rain.

  • It had been there for some time, and it remained till it was blown down by a high wind.

  • On the day referred to the Heyoka man had not been absent very long from the camp when a high wind arose, and the rain was so plentiful that a person could not see very far.

  • Weather very cold, with a high wind, that sent the snow flying.

  • For instance, in both the country and the city the rapid approach of a thundershower is preceded by black clouds and a high wind.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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