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Example sentences for "stormy weather"

  • I returned to Fort Garry on the 1st September, in the afternoon, my journey having been protracted by unfavorable weather, and by the fact that owing to the prevalence of shoals, the navigation of Lake Manitoba is difficult in stormy weather.

  • Owing to stormy weather, which obliged us to encamp on Bird Island, we did not return to Oak Point until the afternoon of the 27th.

  • This lake is about thirty-five miles in length and is very shallow and dangerous in stormy weather.

  • If the cat frisk about the house in an unusually lively manner, wind or stormy weather is approaching (Lan.

  • The sandbank was so low that in stormy weather it was almost submerged.

  • As has been already remarked, the bank at its highest point was little more than a few feet above the level of the ocean, the waves of which in stormy weather almost, and the spray of which altogether, swept over it.

  • Wild, stormy weather, I have repeatedly noticed, will also drive this Gull landwards sooner, perhaps, than any other species.

  • It is a decided shore species, rarely wandering far out to sea, and is one of the first Gulls driven inland by stormy weather.

  • It is strictly marine in its haunts during winter, often wandering long distances from land, and approaching the shore usually under pressure of stormy weather.

  • In stormy weather, when no benefactors can fly, the flowers are adapted to fertilize themselves through the curving of the styles.

  • Is not the ready movement useful during stormy weather in turning the mouth of the flower away from driving rain, and in fair days, when insects are abroad, in presenting its gaping lips where they can best alight?

  • At night and during cloudy, stormy weather, when their benefactors are not flying, the claytonias economically close their petals to protect nectar and pollen from rain and pilferers.

  • There are no harbors, though canoes and small boats take refuge in stormy weather at the mouths of the rivers already mentioned.

  • There are no harbors on the east coast of Graham Island, and only canoes and small vessels could find refuge in its small bay indentations in stormy weather.

  • There is a good canoe landing in pleasant weather on the shore opposite, but in stormy weather it breaks all around the bay.

  • A small island surrounded with kelp lying about one hundred rods from shore, protects a good canoe landing in stormy weather.

  • After several yachting excursions, marred by stormy weather, the Court went north, and reached Balmoral on the 30th of August.

  • The Prince experienced something of the hardships of bivouacing in stormy weather, and suffered in consequence.

  • The positions of cyclones and of anticyclones; of areas of clear, fair, cloudy or stormy weather, and of regions of high or low temperatures, are plainly seen at a glance.

  • A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.

  • They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.

  • Defn: Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.

  • In stormy weather, not being able to get out of doors, the men wrestled or played some game which called the muscles into action, and thus kept up the animal heat.

  • When we used alcohol for fuel (as we usually did in stormy weather) no kitchen was required.

  • Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.

  • My work is no harder in stormy weather, while then it is that every other man is on duty all the time.

  • Whenever the regular practice is prevented by wreck duty, stormy weather, or high surf, it must take place the first opportunity thereafter.

  • They make large dug-out canoes with outriggers, which seem to be very seaworthy, for they accomplish long voyages even in stormy weather.

  • In these canoes the natives of Tumleo make long voyages along the coast; but as the craft are not very seaworthy they never stand out to sea, if they can help it, but hug the shore in order to run for safety to the beach in stormy weather.

  • In stormy weather, a rare occurrence, the fishing is altogether stopped.

  • But in stormy weather it is dangerous even to stand on the ground above; people are exposed to be swept away by unexpected rushes of the sea, and many have been drowned there in consequence.

  • In stormy weather it must be altogether impossible to bathe anywhere.


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