| 单词 | whole gale |
| 例句 | The slope became steeper, the ice harder, the half gale became a whole gale, and the delay between each step seemed interminable. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z The Alabama lay still during the whole gale, not changing her position, perhaps, half a mile. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The Channel was widening into the ocean, with depth enough for seas of oceanic volume, and it was still, as it had been for some hours, blowing a whole gale of wind. A Marriage at Sea Isabel's old house creaked and rattled and groaned like a ship in a whole gale, and the wind sent great waves of rain along the veranda. Ancestors A Novel Out of a bleak and threatening west the wind blew ominously true—a whole gale, accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea The day was warm enough, but it blew a whole gale of wind; and the noise and the purposeless rude violence of it somehow irritated and depressed me. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Then I went to sleep, waking again at seven to find it blowing half a gale of wind, which rapidly increased to a whole gale. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' The wind was now blowing a whole gale and the masts of the ship were bending like whips. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main A whole gale is coming, and the woods are beside themselves. Anthony Lyveden An hour or more before dark the wind increased, and was blowing a whole gale. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Talking of such sensations, and the idle abandon of a whole gale of wind after the ship is secured, I wonder how many of my readers will have seen the following ancient song. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life But it is indisputable that the ship is embayed on a lee-shore, and that it is blowing a whole gale of wind. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy "The place it comes from must give out soon, unless a new trade wind's got fixed into a whole gale for this here ocean." The Frozen Pirate During the whole gale the captain was on the watch, sounding the lead to see if she dragged, and keeping the steam up to be in readiness to put to sea at a moment’s notice. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships What seamen style a “whole gale” seemed to be brewing when the “Nancy” tripped her anchor and shook out her sails. The Lifeboat They came upon bad weather gradually, drawing into a belt of half- gales, with squalls that roared up from the horizon and made them for the time, into whole gales. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories Half a gale blew; then a whole gale; then a semi-hurricane, and at last all the ships had to take in the fourth reef in the mainsail. A Dream of the North Sea Once I felt the vessel rock; I cannot tell the hour, but it was long past midnight, and by the noise of the wind I guessed it was blowing a whole gale. The Frozen Pirate Sunday, the 15th February, dawned dark and gloomy, the wind blowing nearly a whole gale from the north, and the Alabama dashing along, with the wind well abeam, under reefed topsails. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter A “whole gale” may sound peculiar to some ears, but if the said gale were to sound in the same ears, the hearers would be apt to style it, in consternation, “a most tremendous hurricane!” The Lifeboat It was blowing a whole gale of wind from the north-west. The Frozen Pirate |
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