| 单词 | sou'-west |
| 例句 | But now the Star of the South went booming on the outside of the Falklands with a gale that drew into the sou'-sou'-west and howled after her. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z "Keep her sou'-west by west, half west." Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck 2011-11-04T02:00:18.377Z "Isn't it beginning to puff up from the sou'-west?" asked one, in a hoarse whisper. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z The land-breeze has died away, and that it is going to blow from the sou'-west I am convinced. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z "Then, of course, we've been running sou'-sou'-west, heading right into the open channel?" A Marriage at Sea To seaward, in the clearings, we could see the hurtling outer seas, turned from the sou'-west, shattering in a high column of broken water at the base of St. Anthony's firm headland. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Sydney set a definite course, and with a foaming wake and a trail of heavy smoke, went off at full speed to the sou'-west. The Tale of a Trooper We go by the moon in firing, sir," the charcoal-burner answered, "Last night it rose sou'-west, and that doesn't mean betterment, though it's quiet enough now. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time We have had a long drought, and master-pilot will tell ye that there are strong winds coming up from the sou'-west. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea "There's no more water-belt there," said Lund, "than there was music in your great-uncle's jewsharp; but there's a spot off to the sou'-west that looks to me a little like blue water." Adrift in the Ice-Fields South sou'-west, she heads, swinging a little west at times, but making a good course. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea "They went off sou'-west," shouted the sergeant. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 And now, to make matters worse, the wind chopped and blew up from the sou'-west, with a squall of rain and a wobble of sea that tried Hancock's stomach sorely. News from the Duchy On deck they strained their eyes seaward towards a brown spot on the blue far, far away to the sou'-west. Great Sea Stories He lived, and still lives, I reckon, on an island about fifty miles from here, right off there to the sou'-sou'-west. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 A gust came out of the sou'-west, and we had but squared the yards when we heard the sound of a master wind on the water. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea The building stands high above a bleak peninsula on the South Coast, and the congregation had struggled up with heads slanted sou'-west against the weather that drove up the Channel in a black fog. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales "Sou'-sou'-west," I replied, looking up at a few flecks of white cloud in the clear sky. The Pilots of Pomona They were down in the sou'-west country, which they little knew; and were anighing Winchester city, or should 'a' been. At a Winter's Fire It 'ud be a rum start for a vyage at this time o' night, with half a gale from the sou'-west. The Firm of Girdlestone The squall passed, followed by a lull that served us to cant the yards; then, sharp as a knife-thrust, the wind came howling out of the sou'-west. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea By this time it was blowing pretty well half a gale from sou'-sou'-west, and before midnight a proper gale. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales "One time when I was about fifty miles to the sou'-west o' Cape Horn, I—" "Dinner's ready, sir," said a thin, tall, active man, stepping smartly up to Singleton, and touching his cap. The World of Ice His eyes were fixed on a small and almost imperceptible stain on the horizon to the sou'-sou'-west. The Blue Lagoon: a romance October 22.—A fine day, with hardly a cloud in the sky, and a fresh breeze from the sou'-west which wafts us gaily on our way. The Captain of the Polestar The sea, rolling up from the sou'-west in a long glassy swell, was ruffled here and there by the checks of a fitful breeze. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea "Ah, you've got the right exposure here to the south and sou'-west," says the Sergeant, with a wag of his grizzled head, and a streak of pleasure in his melancholy voice. The Moonstone The wind has changed, and people say we shall have a gale from the sou'-west. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 I followed his example, setting a course sou'-sou'-west. Right Ho, Jeeves Sou'-west, and sou'-west and by south. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers "Blast ye," said the Old Man, shaking his benumbed arms towards the sou'-west. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Yet here, on the near side of Launceston, was a large body of rebel horse marching quietly to the sou'-west. The Splendid Spur It could not be caused by the wind: for, although the rain kept pouring steadily down, the furious sou'-west gusts had long ago been beaten into a sullen silence by the descending torrents. Station Amusements in New Zealand Yet all the while our gallants after fighting through the day, Were beating up and down the dark, sou'-west of Cadiz Bay. The Dynasts The snow had melted, and a great gale blew from the sou'-west, boisterous but not cold, which caused the tall elms that stood about to screech and groan like things alive. The Lady of Blossholme "Keep her off to her course again—sou'-west, half south!" ordered the Old Man when the last signal had been made. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea We catch the nor'-west in full force, but are sheltered from the sou'-west, which, with us, is a quiet wind, accompanied with gentle drizzling but cold rain, and, in the winter, snow. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement They blow from two or three hours to as many days, and if they last any length of time, are generally succeeded by a sudden change to sou'-west—the cold, rainy, or snowy wind. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement As we generally come in for the tail-end of the nor'-western rains, so we sometimes, though less frequently, get that of the sou'-west winds also. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement The sou'-west rain comes to us up the river through the lower gorge, and is consequently sou'-east rain with us, owing to the direction of the valley. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement But it is always called sou'-west if it comes from the southward at all. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement |
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