Gales Sentence Examples

The harbour is screened from south-westerly gales by the isle of Sanday.

Bristol, Exeter and other important towns have been laid, and eventually telegraphic communication between every important town in the United Kingdom will be rendered safe from interruptions caused by gales or snowstorms.

In consequence, however, of the frequent violence of the southwesterly gales and other causes, the communication ceased in the middle of the 19th century, and the artificial harbour designed by John Rennie has gradually fallen into decay.

Coal lying under the sea below low-water mark belongs to the crown, and can only be worked upon payment of royalties, even when it is approached from shafts sunk upon land in private ownership. In the Forest of Dean, which is the property of the crown as a royal forest,there are certain curious rights held by a portion of the inhabitants known as the Free Miners of the Forest, who are entitled to mine for coal and iron ore, under leases, known as gales, granted by the principal agent or gaveller representing the crown, in tracts not otherwise occupied.

During many successive years he saw a great deal of hard service, and so constantly had he to contend, on his various expeditions, with adverse gales and dangerous storms, that he was nicknamed by the sailors, "Foul-weather Jack."

Along the whole west coast the climate resembles nothing in the British Islands so much as Cork and Kerry, for there are the same wet gales from a western ocean, the same clouds gathering on the dripping sides of wild mountains, an equal absence of severe frosts and hot sunshine, and a rich and evergreen vegetation.

In summer the east wind brings dense and sudden fogs; while in winter the northerly gales blow straight into the mouths of the harbours.

Fogs occur during summer and early autumn, and furious gales may be expected four or five times in the year, when the crash of the Atlantic waves is audible for 20 m.

In some places the south-western gales are so severe that a belt of trees is useful as a break wind and shelter.

The harbour of the village of Kinloch, at the head of Loch Scresort, is resorted to during gales from the N.W.

At the time of the equinox it is commonly believed that strong gales may be expected.

In one case observations taken for fifty years show that during the five days from the list to the 25th of March and September, there were fewer gales and storms than during the preceding and succeeding five days.

In England the pine is largely employed as a " nurse " for oak trees, its conical growth when young admirably adapting it for this purpose; its dense foliage renders it valuable as a shelter tree for protecting land from the wind; it stands the sea gales better than most conifers, but will not flourish on the shore like some other species.

The thickness of the ice does not exceed 3 or 4 ft.; but during the alternations of cold and warm weather, with strong gales, in winter, stacks of ice, 70 and 80 ft.

Navigation, which is practicable for only one hundred and eighty days in the year, is rather difficult owing to fogs and gales, which are often accompanied, even in April and September, with snow-storms. The prevailing winds blow from N.W.

In winter the gales often fill the streets to the depth of several feet, with drifts of sand from the surrounding dunes, which, however, are noted in summer for the dry and bracing air.

Westerly gales are more frequent, and have more effect on the water surface than easterly ones, lowering the water as much as 7 to 8 ft.

Petrels are archaic oceanic forms, with great powers of flight, dispersed throughout all the seas and oceans of the world, and some species apparently never resort to land except for the purpose of nidification, though nearly all are liable at times to be driven ashore, and often very far inland, by gales of wind.'

In February and March heavy gales are frequent, and hurricanes sometimes occur, causing scarcity by destroying the crops.

On the other hand a string of islands extends along this coast, which offer many safe and easily accessible places of anchorage to ships during the fierce winter gales which rage in the Adriatic. The principal are Pago, Pasman, Isola Lunga and Isola Incoronata, Brazza, Lesina, Curzola and Meleda.

In Britain the evergreen oak is quite hardy in ordinary winters, and is useful to the ornamental planter from its capacity for resisting the sea gales; but it generally remains of small size.

The port is formed by a stone reef running parallel with and a half-mile from the shore line, within which vessels of light draft find a safe anchorage, except from southerly gales.

Pentine Point shelters Padstow Bay on the north-east, but the approach to the estuary is dangerous during north-westerly gales.

The Russians have improved the town and port, but the latter is still exposed to west and south-west gales.

Large galleys could not anchor in the bay of Zengg, which is shallow and exposed to sudden gales, so the Uskoks fitted out a fleet of swift boats, light enough to navigate the smallest creeks and inlets of the Illyrian shore, and easily sunk and recovered, if a temporary landing became necessary.

On the coasts of Europe marine algae detached by the autumnal gales are commonly carted on to the land as a convenient manure.

This' popular idea has no foundation in fact, for continued observations have failed to show any unusual prevalence of gales at this season.

Owing to the shallowness of the harbour large vessels cannot enter, but there is an important coasting trade, despite the dangerous character of the coast-line and the prevalence of fogs and gales.

The lake begins to freeze in October, but it is only about the end of December that it is frozen in its deeper parts; and it remains ice-bound until the end of March, though broad icefields continue to float in the middle of the lake until broken up by gales.

Please don't send the gales to Norfolk, it's just been very breezy here so far.

Gulstone steeple WSW First part light breezes, latter fresh gales and clear, at 5pm moored a cable each way SSW and NbyE.

She was also capable of withstanding gales, which regularly sweep the Mersey Estuary, especially during the winter months.

Some of its warehouses have walls on the beach which are battered by gales in the winter months.

As this high drifted east into the continent, Atlantic fronts crossed Shetland bringing further south-westerly gales and spells of rain.

Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year.

However, during the winter gales the sand is often scoured away leaving just the rocks behind with very little sand.

Any remaining fruits are likely to fall victim to birds, squirrels, autumn gales or all three!

The journey there took longer than expected with the huge gales having made the roads rather treacherous.

Fiona Ware - GSG Caving Secretary Elphin Caving Center The hut survived the tremendous winter gales almost totally unscathed.

The westerly Atlantic gales which assist rare North American vagrants to England now were also blowing in the Anglo-Saxon centuries.

We couldn't make ourselves heard through the roaring gales, and there was a total whiteout.

Examples of these plates are erected on the west coast of England, where in the winter fierce gales often occur; a pressure of 30 lb per sq.

And hark! here comes the cattle-train bearing the cattle of a thousand hills, sheepcots, stables, and cow-yards in the air, drovers with their sticks, and shepherd boys in the midst of their flocks, all but the mountain pastures, whirled along like leaves blown from the mountains by the September gales.

John Rae, for example, positively relished the Orkney gales.

Winds can be strong gales, violent rushes, whirlwinds, or gently soothing mild airs.

In addition to the furious sailing activity we have had appalling weather conditions with horizontal rain blown in from force 7 southerly gales.

Snow, flooding, gales, washed-out bridges, sea damage, and many other incidents are all examined.

It should have shelter and as warm a soil as we can give it, although it grows well near the sea and sea gales have power to injure it.

Gales -- Dropped by every enemy in the room before Final Rest in End of the World.

If your lover is someone who is prone to a glib tongue, you may get answers that send you both into gales of laughter.