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Example sentences for "wind and"

  • At night five or six human beings, naked and scarcely protected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous climate, sleep on the wet ground coiled up like animals.

  • Win, who had managed to make slow progress to a point of vantage, stood fascinated by the wild whirl of wind and water.

  • Delivering Estelle's message at a cottage by the shore had taken but a few moments and with most of the morning before him, Roger set out along the beach, glorying in the force of wind and rain.

  • The flood of light, in this case, revealed a visage in which good-nature had evidently struggled for years against the virulent opposition of wind and weather, and had come off victorious, though not without evidences of the conflict.

  • He then grasped his single-blade paddle and aided Moses in keeping her head to wind and sea.

  • He felt the quiver of the pine needles outside, trembling to the touch of wind and night.

  • He heard the beat of wind and rain as before, but he knew it was something else that had aroused him.

  • The island was swept by wind and rain, but he liked to be lashed by both.

  • He stood up, defying the lash of wind and rain, and felt his courage rise with the contest.

  • It was in a gale of wind and a simoom of dust, but I greatly enjoyed it.

  • I think it is my turn to write to you, and I therefore send a brief despatch, like a telegram, to let you know that in a gale of wind and a fierce rain, last night, we turned away a thousand people.

  • A heavy gale of wind and a snowstorm oblige me to write suddenly for the Cunard steamer a day earlier than usual.

  • If you are off too quick, you have to pull up and turn back agin, and your beast gets out of wind and is baffled, and if you lose in the start you hain't got a fair chance arterwards, and are plaguy apt to be jockied in the course.

  • Will you warrant him sound, wind and limb?

  • Fancher and Gammons were feebler certainly, and a little more querulous with age, and their faded beards and rough hands gave pathetic evidence of the hard wear of wind and toil.

  • From our places in the front row we looked down upon an almost solid mosaic of derby hats, the majority of which were rusty by exposure to wind and rain.

  • Suddenly with rush of wind and clatter of hoofs, we enter the gloom of a forest and the road begins to climb.

  • Suddenly I observed that the line of red was moving steadily against the wind and toward the stacks.

  • Rock Flour," Rocks, effect of wind and rain on .

  • The material was light and loosely fitting, but in wind and drift it had to be hermetically sealed, so to speak, for the snow crept in wherever there was an aperture.

  • The larger chunks, by their motion and exposure to wind and current, had a circle of clear water; the deep sea-blue hovering round their water-worn niches.

  • One reason why this is required is the perpetually shifting conditions of heat, wind and storm.

  • Theophrastus, one of his pupils, made a compilation of prognostics concerning rain, wind and storm, and there investigation ceased for ages.

  • Tri-daily deductions or probabilities of the weather, wind and storms, with part of the data on which they rest, are published in all the principal papers of the country, and each man and woman can testify as to their use of them.

  • Slowly split from the parent rock by the weathering process, and carved and sculptured by ages of wind and rain, they waited their moment.

  • From time to time he stopped to listen and heard only the usual familiar bark of coyote and sweep of wind and rustle of sage.

  • There came a time when he could just trace the line of demarcation between the part of her face once hidden by a mask and that left exposed to wind and sun.

  • Set sails to the storm-wind and again to sea; Yet for all their labour no whit further shall they be from it, Nor longer but wearier shall their life's work be.

  • Though land-wind and sea-wind with mouths that blow slaughter [Ant.

  • Wood and Water, Wind and Tree, Jungle-Favour go with thee!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about seventy; but his; certain special; coverts brown; detaining hand; haue done; heaven shall; later days; natural size; our boat; rough draft; safe place; something held; somewhat irregular; thing done; under sail; wilt thou; wind and; wind from; wind instrument; wind instruments; wind south; wind vane; winding sheet; window glass; window pane