With a strong wind and a wet fall of snow, the ice-camp was far from comfortable.
A strong wind on our backs, with quiet waters, sent the little boat along at a swift pace.
Therefore a very serious check is put upon the bird's flight; and it is this consideration which makes it seem doubtful whether any bird, except when aided by a strong wind, can attain such speeds as have been suggested.
There had been a strong wind in the forenoon, but it seemed to me they ought to have got further--annoyingly the telephone gave no news from Hut Point, evidently something was wrong.
A strong wind at the start has developed into a full blizzard at lunch, and we have had to get into our sleeping-bags.
In the early days of flying aviators themselves were afraid of a strong wind.
On the other hand, a strong wind has a very different effect from a light one upon the course of the aeroplane's flight with respect to the ground beneath.
In gliding experiments it has long been known that the rate of vertical descent is very much retarded, and the duration of the flight greatly prolonged, if a strong wind blows UP the face of the hill parallel to its surface.
Professor Langley witnessed the trials of the machine, which proved before the members of the International Congress of Aeronautics, on September 19th, that it was capable of holding its own against a strong wind.
Gustave Hamel flew from Hendon to Windsor and back in a strong wind.
It kept off remarkably till we got through and got our clothing on, but soon after it began to rain and after we got to camp it rained considerably, accompanied by strong wind.
Richards and tarried till seven o'clock, at which time a heavy black cloud was fast approaching from the west and was soon followed by a strong wind and a little rain which lasted only a short time.
He passed through that country a year ago last summer in the month of July, and they generally had one or two showers every day, sometimes a very heavy thunder shower but not accompanied by strong wind.
Saturday, October 16 The night has been very stormy, there being a strong wind, rain, and very cold.
His sudden rage shook her like a strong wind, and she liked him the better for his relapse into an elemental passion in the cause of righteousness.
Not only had the bitterness passed from his shame, but there had come, with the relinquishment of the idea of personal wrong, a swift rush of exaltation, like a strong wind, through his soul.
I understand," said Trent slowly; "one feels her as one feels a strong wind on a high mountain.
A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.
To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
A strong wind, with much swell, prevented our regaining lost ground in a northerly direction, I therefore preferred standing to the S.
In calm weather do not pass too near to the cape, for the current sometimes sets out, and round the cape to the southward; but with a strong wind, get under the lee of it as soon as you please, and steer along the shore.
It was bad weather; and the Ribon, otherwise a fine river, cannot be navigated during a strong wind, on account of the projecting trunks of trees and logs.
There was a strong wind and a still stronger tide, and we were rapidly driven under the bows of a large steamer Gladwyn.
In a strong wind the Bebe's speed is something quite phenomenal, and one race she sailed in a hard gale, surprised everyone who saw her.
My own experience is, that in casting against a strong wind, a stiffish rod of eighteen feet is quite within my powers, so much depending on the balance of the whole apparatus, the size of the reel and weight of the butt.
In running before a strong wind and a dangerous sea do not attempt to carry much sail.
Hoopoo' was well raced; but the owner picked his weather, occasionally refusing to start in a strong wind when he thought he 'hadn't a chance.
A sharp stern is undoubtedly safer when running through broken water or before a heavy sea, and when a boat 'squats' in running before a strong wind it does not drag dead water behind it, and makes a cleaner wake.
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