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Usage examples of tramontane.

When I found myself in the streets, I scarcely could believe that I was in Italy, for everything had a tramontane appearance.

But, scenting strangeness such as they had never scented before, these lately-wolves decided among themselves that this tramontane was fair game.

That you did not succeed in your rape must be because Hopea-Lapuo, our God-in-the-Earth who rules us all, employed this tramontane wretch to prevent your sacriligious act!

Greenland- Greenland should always be the scene of the tramontane negociation.

There had been a tramontane wind for several days, which at first had swept the sky clean with its raw, cold breath, but now it had turned sweet and mild, and with the sun like your warm hand on my shoulder, I felt the optimism and yearnings of springtime turning over in me.

We have a laranzu come with us from Tramontane, but he has had no experience with sentry-birds, and these are known to you, damisela.

It is a long harbour with a dog-leg in it and a precious narrow mouth protected by a broad mole and two batteries, one on each side, and another of 24-pounders high up on Bear: a tricky piece of navigation, to take a ship in or out with their infernal tramontane blowing right across the narrow mouth, but an excellent sheltered harbour inside with deep water up to the quays.

He studied the angle of the dog-vane, called for an azimuth-compass to take the bearings of the wake and of Cape Mola, gazed long at the sky, the familiar clear tramontane sky with high white clouds moving in a steady procession toward Africa, and methodically began to pack on sail, causing the log to be heaved every five minutes.

It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever.

Though thrilled to be on the trail again, Nabokov had to contend with the chill tramontane wind that seemed to blow whenever the sun shone.

Italian sun infected with disease those tramontane bodies which had already suffered the vicissitudes of intemperance and famine.

Paganel, it is the north wind--a wind which causes many a crime in the Pampas, as the TRAMONTANE does in the Campagna of Rome.

Yes, Paganel, it is the north wind--a wind which causes many a crime in the Pampas, as the TRAMONTANE does in the Campagna of Rome.

When I found myself in the streets, I scarcely could believe that I was in Italy, for everything had a tramontane appearance.

And the blessed realisation that the dawn was bringing its usual slackening of the tramontane - and that the sail down to leeward was the lively.