Sentences with phrase «winter gales»

They commute in 72 - foot self - righting boats that can roll over 360 degrees as winter gales and sometimes hurricane - force storms blast out of the North Pacific.

I imagine an old seafarer dozing by the fire, landlubbered at last, and the winter gale rattling the window frames.

I certainly wouldn't fancy going out in a small boat in the middle of a winter gale and jumping across to the concrete base with all my heavy tools - I think the old lighthouses were isolated for months sometimes.

Not exact matches

How many of those rededications took deep root and withstood the hectoring gales of life's winter seasons?

Smart survivors, these plants have developed an array of intriguing adaptations and defence mechanisms to cope with the scorching sunlight, gale - force winds, dry summers and wet winters.

1255/6 a great gale and rain the whole winter from the feast of all saints until whitsun - this is likely to refer to nov 1st 1255 to june 4th 1256

In the dark freezing depths of winter, with a gale howling outside, everyone has their heating turned up high and all the lights switched on... and since the sun isn't shining the photovoltaic systems on the «Zero - Carbon Buildings» aren't generating electricity.