Powerful wind

Usage examples of gale.

But the storm came up sharper than ever that evening, and even had he wished to, Roy would have found it impossible to handle the aeroplane alone in the heavy wind that came now in puffs and now in a steady gale.

After the bomb aimer went, a gale of great intensity blew through the open hatch into the cockpit.

For a moment he shook like a alder leaf in an autumn gale and then the sinister half-recollection faded and was gone before he could grasp its import.

Breen, head of the evaluation team, the one man, Gale had said, who could tell him why he had been lured to Auk House.

A gale began to blow from the north, and in less than an hour it was blowing so hard that we were compelled to sail close to the wind in a fearful manner.

Two weary, worn-out men, one of them on the wrong side of forty, a rocking-stone to take off from, a trembling point of rock some few feet across to land upon, and a bottomless gulf to be cleared in a raging gale!

Alastair was changing into his own clothes, which the landlord fetched for him from Edom, he saw from his window in the last faint daylight a square cloakless figure swing from the yard at a canter and turn south with the gale behind it.

In the gloom of the gale, where the light from the cabin flashed in his eyes and blinded him to the meres, while his nose made him choke with their scents, the cougar sought the only safety he could see: Tsia.

Through his tool, Clarry, the crabby attorney had delved into various matters more deeply than Howard Garnstead or Gale Marden supposed.

Krysty had managed to sew some strong elasticized cord for him to use when they ventured outside into the gales.

Erelong the winter gales shall blow, Erelong the winter frosts shall freeze - And oh, that it were June once more!

But mighty Paris is a place of good luck or ill, as one takes it, and it was my part to catch the favouring gale.

Five days had passed when a partial clearing allowed them to see the wide extending ocean beneath their feet, now lashed into the maddest fury by the gale.

The fenestrations fretted in the gale, the panes rattling in their metal grooves like prisoners shaking the bars of their cells.

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