单词 | southeaster |
例句 | Perhaps it is wrong of us to curse this wind, for on board the Fram they are rejoicing that a southeaster has at last sprung up. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Captain Ichabod found him one morning perched upon the top of a floating crate, washed from the deck of a schooner that had gone upon the beach in a booming southeaster. When the Cock Crows The dread of the southeasters was ever present with the sailors. Under the Maples Then a strong southeaster was blowing, and snow was falling. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras At three it rose one one-hundredth of an inch, and almost simultaneously, looking over the weather rail, was to be seen the oncoming northwester, never long in debt to a southeaster. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life The first angry puffs of the southeaster were coming. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 As this small bit of land is low-lying, more than once when a southeaster has raged, the tiny isle has become entirely submerged. When the Cock Crows Many a time had Captain Bean weathered Hatteras in a southeaster, but never had he met such a storm of feminine fury as this. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle But before it came a change of wind; preceding which, as the southeaster died, there were a few moments of calm. Ralph Granger's Fortunes The ship careened, a stiff southeaster heeling her to starboard. Atlantis Between Welcome Pass and Cape Coburn the southeaster loosed its full fury on him. Burned Bridges They were what he fully expected to behold as soon as the southeaster ceased to whip the Gulf,—the Bluebird and the Blackbird, Jack MacRae's two salmon carriers. Poor Man's Rock Sometimes a "southeaster" blows up from the Japan Current, or Black Stream, as the Japanese call the warm, dark-blue waters that pour out of the China Sea. Stories of California On deck he found the Mary Rogers running off before a howling southeaster. Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews Meantime the southeaster, dead ahead and blowing harder every minute, was sending its seas further and further aft. Overland Lost a day laying up at Blind Bay for a southeaster. Burned Bridges That had poured itself out and given place to a southeaster. Poor Man's Rock The southeaster was tearing across the open spaces and bending everything before it; the lumbering boat dipped sideward in a stolid encounter with its adversary. The Blood Red Dawn In November the southeasters begin, and they are ‘fiendish’; this year they began in September. Letters from the Cape He did not like the drift of the low clouds off to the west; southeasters began that way. Tom Grogan A gale far more disastrous than that memorable southeaster of last autumn may therefore be expected. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 The swell that runs far before a Gulf southeaster began to roll the sloop, abandoned to all the aimless movements of a vessel uncontrolled. Poor Man's Rock But nothing more unusual did he hear that night than the roar of the wind, the dash of the brawling southeaster against the panes, and the groans of the old house, shaken by the storm. The Inn at the Red Oak He had an ugly trip down the coast: lost his deck load and three men overboard in a southeaster off Nantucket Shoals. In Exile and Other Stories Still, a man isn't like a whale or a porpoise, that takes the, air in his nostrils, and never knows whether it is a southeaster or a northwester that he feeds upon. The Pilot We retired at eight o'clock, and just then Toyatte, who had been attentively studying the sky, presaged rain and another southeaster for the morrow. Travels in Alaska But once inside, a man could lie down in his bunk and sleep soundly, though a southeaster whistled and moaned, and the seas roared smoking into the narrow mouth. Poor Man's Rock The Quickstep bucked a howling southeaster all the way down the coast, and the Skinners were knocked from one end of their wet stateroom to the other and slept not a wink. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley He come home light and anchored off the bar, just as a southeaster was a-comin' on. In Exile and Other Stories Here were no hides to come off, and no southeasters to fear. Two Years Before the Mast Again we catch a very faint northerly breeze from Ibsen, or a southeaster from Maeterlinck and Hauptmann. Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors For forty-eight hours a southeaster had swept the sea, that rare phenomenon of a summer gale which did not blow itself out between suns. Poor Man's Rock In six days we had two stiff blows, and, in addition, one proper southwester and one rip-snorting southeaster. A Collection of Stories Such was the case for the first four or five days, when they were wafted steadily up the stream by a strong southeaster. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains This night we had the strictest orders to look out for southeasters; and the long, low clouds seemed rather threatening. Two Years Before the Mast Next he attempted the tiny front porch, until a howling southeaster drenched the wheel a night-long. Martin Eden When he listened he could hear the melancholy drone of the southeaster and the rumble of the surf, two sounds that fitted well his mood. Poor Man's Rock Inside another hour there was no doubt that we were in for a southeaster. A Collection of Stories Arrived at Santa Barbara, and on the following Wednesday slipped our cable and went to sea, on account of a southeaster. Two Years Before the Mast They told us that they had belonged to a small Mexican brig which had been driven ashore here in a southeaster, and now lived in a small house just over the hill. Two Years Before the Mast This was the brig which was driven ashore at San Pedro in a southeaster, and had been lying at San Diego to repair and take in her cargo. Two Years Before the Mast The southeaster sends endless battalions of waves rolling up there when it blows. Poor Man's Rock During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers. A Collection of Stories What a sight, thought I, must this be in a southeaster! Two Years Before the Mast Here we could lie safe from the southeasters. Two Years Before the Mast How we walked the deck together, hour after hour, talking over the old times,— the ships, the captains, the crews, the traders on shore, the ladies, the Missions, the southeasters! indeed, where could we stop? Two Years Before the Mast On the fourth, we took a stiff southeaster, which obliged us to reef our topsails. Two Years Before the Mast While all this was doing, we were to lie still in one place, the port a safe one, and no fear of southeasters. Two Years Before the Mast No sooner had we come-to, than a strong southeaster, which had been threatening us all day, set in, with heavy rain and a chilly air. Two Years Before the Mast We all agreed that it was the worst place we had seen yet, especially for getting off hides, and our lying off at so great a distance looked as though it was bad for southeasters. Two Years Before the Mast A light southeaster, to which we could carry a reefed topmast studding-sail, did wonders for our dead reckoning. Two Years Before the Mast After lying about a week in San Pedro, we got under way for San Diego, intending to stop at San Juan, as the southeaster season was nearly over, and there was little or no danger. Two Years Before the Mast After a stay of about a fortnight, during which we slipped for one southeaster, and were at sea two days, we got under way for Santa Barbara. Two Years Before the Mast It was now the middle of April, the southeaster season was nearly over, and the light, regular winds, which blow down the coast, began to set steadily in, during the latter part of each day. Two Years Before the Mast No more duckings in your breakers, and slipping from your cursed southeasters!'' Two Years Before the Mast The third day after our arrival, the Rosa came in from San Juan, where she went the day after the southeaster. Two Years Before the Mast |
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