The mountains on each side of the water confine the currents of air, and deflect inclined currents in the direction of the axis of the channel, so that there is nearly always a strong wind blowing up the channel.

CHAPTER V THE WATERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE The brig, with all sails set, and favored by a strong wind, drew rapidly in toward the point of landing.

It was full daylight now, and evidently a bright morning, although the swell of the sea remained heavy, and I judged there must be a strong wind.

It was over so quickly I scarcely saw it all; my memory now is of a clear sky, a deck almost deserted, its brass work glowing in the sun, the white sails above bellowing out to the pressure of a strong wind, and the blue sea, crested with white, stretching about us in desolate grandeur.

On, like a giant, stalketh the strong Wind, Wrapping the clouds about him, close and dark, Rifting Creation's soul, for rage is blind, No pity hath he for the Earth all stark, Shivering beneath the loose and drifting snow, A scanty shroud to hide the dead below. Dead?

I took a walk round the suburbs one morning, whilst a strong wind was bringing the locusts towards the coast, which fell upon us like hailstones.

He had heard the shots and was now once more but a moving black speck on the snow, but it will always be a mystery to me how he could have heard the three reports of my small-bore rifle so far away and against a strong wind.

A strong wind made it hard going, and sometimes turned us completely around as it struck slanting upon the packs which we carried.

A strong wind came on from the east, and fairly howled through the ravine opposite our anchorage, catching our little sloop with full force.

Riding against a strong wind, especially on a bicycle, may prove hurtful, at least for eyes that are inclined to any kind of inflammation.

The steamer was rolling in a fresh sea and a sweet strong wind blew refreshingly into his face.

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.

The Indians called Gen. Wayne Che Nóden, the Strong Wind. 30th.

"Strong Wind said to the chiefs that there should be a place for the old and disabled, where they should have food.

He was taking a couple of oxen harnessed to a cart across the stream, and the strong wind that was blowing sent the great flat boat far out of its course.

The pull over sea ice was very heavy and in face of strong wind and drift.

Evans evidently had a strong wind here, S.E. I should think.

If we could have kept up our 9-mile days we might have got within reasonable distance of the depot before running out, but nothing but a strong wind and good surface can help us now, and though we had quite a good breeze this morning, the sledge came as heavy as lead.

I am not afraid of storms, nor fires at sea, nor any of the common accidents of the ocean; but for a ship to stand still with plenty of water under her, and a strong wind filling her sails, has more of the uncanny about it than I fancy.

One evening it turned cold and a strong wind set in, coming straight at us across the river.

The matted dounga looked as though it might be chilly, particularly if a strong wind came to play among the rather draughty-looking mats which were all that our poor friend had between her and a cold world!

The strong wind out of the north carried it on with few moments of hesitation as it poised on breaking waves, its striking similitude to life never being lost for an instant.

The greatest annoyance we sustained was from the dust, which was brought in by a very strong wind through the lattices.

Trees are sometimes torn from the ground, and houses overturned, by a strong wind.

O strong wind, do you laugh to see us?