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High wind   /haɪ wɪnd/   Listen
High wind

noun
1.
A very strong wind.





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... the hood of the companionway I found a high wind was drenching the deck with spray and everything was black and wet and slippery. The vessel was labouring, and, although there was nothing that could be called a storm, she was bucking into head-swells that rattled her from stem to stern, and the gusts of wind whipped the tips of the waves ...
— The Devil's Admiral • Frederick Ferdinand Moore
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... game,' said Una, who felt that she disliked the lady as much as she disliked the noise the high wind made tearing through ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling
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... not been aboard more than twelve days when a high wind took us off, we knew not where. All at once there was a cry of "Land!" and the ship struck on a bank of sand, in which she sank so deep that we could not get her off. At last we found that we must make up our minds to leave her and get to shore as well as we could. There ...
— The Elson Readers, Book 5 • William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck
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... bitter cold evening in the first week of January, with a hard frost, a high wind, and every likelihood of snow before ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
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... the long black shadow that the passage of a great army casts upon a battling nation. Physicians could not give it a name. It seized upon healthy victims, rent them, blasted them and cast them dead and distorted in their tracks, before help could reach them. It passed like fire on a high wind through whole countries and left behind it silence ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
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