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foul winds
n. (foul wind English)
Usage examples of "foul winds".
On her outward voyage the Surprise had done well enough, when she was neither crippled nor headed by foul winds.
In arrangement it had once been something like a mighty fortress built upon a great rocky hilltop, only turned on its side to glower out over an empty space where foul winds from the unplumbed abyss below howled up into unseen caverns above.
Often their escapes from pursuit were narrow, especially when they went foraging inland during the long times of foul winds, and each would make a story in itself.