“This storm came like a levanter in the Mediterranean.”. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
A gentle levanter was wafting them through the Archipelago. From Wordnik.com. [The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Blount took an opportunity to whisper into Raleigh's ear, "This storm came like a levanter in the Mediterranean.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
A wind, whose effects were like those of the Spanish levanter, swept the ice of the Strom-fiord, driving the snow to the upper end of the gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Seraphita] Reference
How came it that no aurora of early light, no prelusive murmurs of scrupulosity even from themselves, had run before this wild levanter of change?. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
Many a gallant sailing-ship commander has been driven to despair in other days by the friendly levanter failing them just as they were wellnigh through the Gut or had reached the foot of the majestic Rock, when the west wind would assert its power over its feebler adversary, and unless he was in a position to fetch an anchorage behind the Rock or in the bay, their fate was sealed for days, and sometimes weeks, in hard beating to prevent as little ground being lost as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Drake Nelson and Napoleon]
The wind was then a levanter, or cafterly, which was contrary for us to lie in Tetuan bay, and our commander did not care to hazard being driven on (hore with the charge Digitized'-by Google. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany in the Years 1759, 1760, and ...] Reference
"levanter.". From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Januarys paper and all those old overcoats I bundled out of the hall making the place hotter than it is that rain was lovely and refreshing just after my beauty sleep I thought it was going to get like Gibraltar my goodness the heat there before the levanter came on black as night and the glare of the rock standing up in it like a big giant compared with their 3 Rock mountain they think is so great with the red sentries here and there the poplars and they all whitehot and the smell of the rainwater in those tanks watching the sun all the time weltering down on you faded all that lovely frock fathers friend Mrs Stanhope sent me from the B Marche paris what a shame my dearest Doggerina she wrote on it she was very nice whats this her other name was just a p c to tell you I sent the little present have just had a jolly warm bath and feel a very clean dog now enjoyed it wogger she called him wogger wd give anything to be back in Gib and hear you sing Waiting and in old Madrid Concone is th. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
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