The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. From LearnThat.org. [James Keller.]
At least megan gale is still his personal tooth fairy. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Because the ladies have been relatively well behaved…] Reference
And at the same moment the gale from the south-west ceased. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
And no more shall I write, I swear, until this gale is blown out, or we are blown to Kingdom Come. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 40] Reference
Then I crossed on the ice, which was broken, and once drifted till a gale from the west put me upon the shore. From Wordnik.com. [An Odyssey of the North] Reference
After a tedious delay, a gentle breeze, and, on the second day, a strong gale from the south, carried them through the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
"The gale is breaking," he told me, waving his mittened hand at a starry segment of sky momentarily exposed by the thinning clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 38] Reference
"A healthy young slip of a gale from the breath iv it, sir," he answered, "with a splatter iv rain just to wet our gills an 'no more.". From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
Bennett, thirty miles in length, was like a millpond; but, half way across, a gale from the south smote them and turned the water white. From Wordnik.com. [Trust] Reference
Wafts a gale, that is drying the dew-drops of sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
The gale was a perfect hurricane, before which we flew at a tremendous pace. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
The gale was a major factor in the suffering and hardship experienced by the troops. From Wordnik.com. [StrategyPage.com] Reference
Driving before the gale was a ship's boat, a rag of sail was set, and they could see figures on board. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Archer] Reference
Bound up with the thunder of the gale were the words, "Your loving sister, Madge" -- evidently the sister Captain. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Kansas] Reference
They might be similar -- a puffed iteration, and might be meaningless and wearisome; the gale was a power in earnest. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
South China Sea more than 30 miles from where the vessel sank Thursday in what Vietnamese officials described as gale-force winds. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
By the time she had finished her letter (which was a long one to Vin) the rain had nearly stopped, though the gale was as strong as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Miniver] Reference
And sweetest in the gale is heard. From Wordnik.com. [Hope] Reference
The upshot of the whole matter was a refusal on the part of the whole tenantry to pay the last "gale" or six months 'rent. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
It is precisely because the "gale" (his term) of creative destruction seems so ferocious that Schumpeter has enjoyed a revival. From Wordnik.com. [Schumpeter: The Prophet] Reference
A pleasant gale is on our lee. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Book of Favorite Songs] Reference
May be blowin 'a livin' gale 'fore the week's out. From Wordnik.com. [Tides of Barnegat] Reference
"A gale is a gale, Mr. Jukes," resumed the Captain, "and a full-powered steam-ship has got to face it. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
The overall effect is explosive, a gale-force afterblast. From Wordnik.com. [Stalking The Radical Middle] Reference
Isolated weather patterns merge into a destructive gale force. From Wordnik.com. [Political Lives: Gop Finds Itself In A Lott Of Pain] Reference
He loved publicity and the media storm was already at gale force. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood’s Most Beloved Fugitive] Reference
No gale that blew dismayed her crew or troubled the captain's mind. From Wordnik.com. [Natalie Merchant: Globe-Spanning Poetry] Reference
As the wine flowed, we could be found reciting the different gale categories. From Wordnik.com. [Ruling the waves: flotilla holidays in Britain] Reference
For the past weeks, New York has been battered by a gale force of Mets outrage. From Wordnik.com. [Step Right Up] Reference
Had he guessed wrong, the fragile landing craft would have foundered in the gale. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Allies Won] Reference
But the sensation I remember most vividly is my head being jostled by a gale-force wind. From Wordnik.com. [Life In The Fastest Lane] Reference
There it sat, for two hours, before taking off into a buffeting, roller-coastering gale. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From The Sardine Run] Reference
It was raining horizontally up Gran Via as a gale howled through the streets of Zarautz. From Wordnik.com. [Now] Reference
All this money, however, is like a flock of pigeons released directly into a gale force headwind. From Wordnik.com. [Savings and Moan] Reference
Rumors that the father had ordered one daughter not to compete against the other began swirling with gale force. From Wordnik.com. [Life With Father] Reference
Nine months later, the Monitor itself sank in a gale off Cape Hatteras, N.C., and was rediscovered only in 1973. From Wordnik.com. [Saving A Sunken Treasure] Reference
When a tree-twisting gale struck Miami, Fla., two weeks ago, there was a terrified scurrying of small feet to grown-up bedrooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Trauma After The Storm] Reference
His leadership style is the stuff of cinema, replete with red berets, - camouflage-clad citizen militias, and gale-force stump speeches. From Wordnik.com. [Lights! Camera! Revolución!] Reference
He was convinced he could once again utter a coherent sentence and make himself understood, and the blissful gale inside his head blew on. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Charlotte Simmons] Reference
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