The winds blew easterly all night. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The Borneons, from being so harassed by these pirates, call the easterly wind 'the pirate wind.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
Weather disturbances in the trade winds, known as easterly waves, are another source of cloud development and precipitation in the tropics. From Wordnik.com. [Tropical weather and hurricanes] Reference
An easterly wind drove them among some hundreds of icebergs. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Gaul -- has an easterly, and the lower one a westerly, aspect. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Climate: subtropical, but moderated by prevailing easterly winds. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
The most easterly of the chain is Timor, the most westerly Sumatra. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
The most easterly one is best preserved, and appears to be the largest. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
Brooklyn was steaming through the Caribbean sea in an easterly direction. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
Move the advance force early, on the most easterly road taken by the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Papa Sherwood were flying easterly just as fast as an express train could take them. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
That same avenue is to be extended easterly till it strikes the farthest of the South. From Wordnik.com. [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference
Travelling by the easterly route you meet the sun, which causes each day to be shortened. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
The northerly winds in winter, however, are bleak and cold, like easterly winds in England. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
These rows are all on the same level, except the most easterly one, which lies on the slope. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
Calientes, three; Acha to the north-east; and, furthest in a north-easterly direction, Braba. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
And this time, should it start, the drive would not stop its easterly course until it reached Berlin. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Then striking out in a north-easterly direction, he made for a small kopje overlooking the Boer camp. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Her little boat was driven forward on its journey by an easterly wind that gently swelled the tiny sails. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference
Today (Saturday): Our easterly flow (at around 10 mph) probably produces considerable morning cloud cover. From Wordnik.com. [Forecast: Pause from heat continues] Reference
Never buoy yourself up with the hope of having any diversion, either at top or bottom in an easterly wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
Even in this shelter vessels are sometimes blown away from their anchors both by easterly and westerly winds. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
It was on the shallower northern part of the Goodwins that the Norwegian brig struck in a north-easterly gale. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Our wagon trains had been ordered easterly of the roads the troops were to march upon before the movement commenced. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
But the storm stayed on a mostly easterly route, so we were avoided the real brunt of the storm that forecasters feared. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Pulls The Punch; Summer's Last Days Saved] Reference
"Sheerness was first taken, and then, taking advantage of a spring tide and an easterly wind, the Dutch broke the chain.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
This defence, built to protect the harbour from south-west and south-easterly winds, is a very fine piece of engineering. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Beach Plum Point was the easterly barrier of sand and rock that defended the beautiful harbor from the Atlantic breakers. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
As I was thinking about all this, the masts again appear on the horizon, the Emden steaming easterly, but very much slower. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Their efforts were mainly directed against the pueblo of Pecos, as the most south-easterly village exposed to their attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
Hancock who had the lead had marched easterly to Guiney's Station, on the Fredericksburg Railroad, thence southerly to Bowling Green and. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
In an easterly gale, notwithstanding the protection of the Goodwins, there is a very heavy and even tremendous sea in the Downs, for the. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
This seemed probable; but we felt disposed to give it a still wider berth, and shifting the sail, we steered in a north-easterly direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Kentish oak, knowing that the combination of an easterly gale with neap tides sometimes produces an 'in-tide' at high-water, and seeing the. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
Last Saturday (June 16th) we left Pienaarspoort in the morning, and marched for about five miles in an easterly direction, many of us doing. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
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