Primes a timepiece

Usage examples of winds.

He had been secreted aboard in the middle of the night, carried in soft blankets, while the fires were burning down and the sea winds tugged at the moorings.

At night those winds carried sprays of golden sand aloft into the sky, where they drifted for a moment among the stars, mirroring the silent streaks of blazing light above, shooting stars that fell into the edges of endless blackness encompassing the vast, echoing desert.

Their eyeless remains, dried and mummified by the harsh winds and waterless air, swung for more than a year from a parapet outside the palace of Jierna Tal before the prince was finally prevailed upon to have them removed so that they did not clash with the street decorations celebrating the rites of spring.

When death hovered in the sea winds, it was invigorating to the lungs.

Yarim in the language of men, a place forgotten by the trade winds, in the shadow of the mountain, at the base of the glacier, on the continental divide, where the ground was barren but the earth held riches, deep and hidden.

Ore of copper and manganese, iron and rysin, the blue metal so beloved of the Bolg in the making of steel, healing mineral springs, opals and precious salt all were concealed beneath the thick red clay, but with no regular prevailing sea winds, no cool gusts from the mountains, the ground hardened stubbornly, refusing to give up its bounty easily.

Additionally, it must be strong enough to withstand the thin air and the battering winds at the top of this crag, but at the same time flawless, without bubbles or imperfections.

But Madoc refused to believe that his people had caused these other winds of death.

The current was strong but not swift, and the river was broad enough for sailing before the prevailing winds, except when the stream wound and looped, and the high, wooded bluffs baffled the breeze.

Then he would make it into the shape of First Man Hanging Up like this, and here it would remain, high in the rain, sun, snow, and howling winds, until it was rotted and ragged.

He sucked on the stem until smoke came, and then he shut his eyes, turned the stem to each of the Four Winds, up to heaven and down to earth, and then passed it to the gray-face.

Here where the winds from the west swept along the curve of the river, all snow that had fallen on the river ice had been drifting into the thickets and was waist deep, sometimes chest deep.

This time of year when the winds blew cold, the people usually did not stand or lounge on their roofs.

Four Bears turned the pipe stem in a circle to acknowledge the Four Winds, pointed it up toward Creator and down to Earth Mother, and handed it to Catlin.

The port is dangerous, especially when westerly winds are blowing: ships during the pilgrimage-season must bank their fires, ever ready to run out.