How To Use South wind In A Sentence
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South Windsor is a lovely little town and the drive down to the launch was picturesque with rolling cornfields and wildflower meadows.
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We've got a pretty strong south wind.
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The air was luminous; a faint south wind murmured in the pine tops.
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The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Essays: Second Series (1844)
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(thus running out into the sea in steep promontories) occurs -- what they would call a 'chine' in the Isle of Wight; but instead of the soft south wind stealing up the woody ravine, as it does there, the eastern breeze comes piping shrill and clear along these northern chasms, keeping the trees that venture to grow on the sides down to the mere height of scrubby brushwood.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1
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The channel is conducted a little above the city of Bubastis by Patumos the Arabian city, and runs into the Erythraian Sea: and it is dug first along those parts of the plain of Egypt which lie towards Arabia, just above which run the mountains which extend opposite Memphis, where are the stone-quarries, along the base of these mountains the channel is conducted from West to East for a great way; and after that it is directed towards a break in the hills and tends from these mountains towards the noon-day and the South Wind to the Arabian gulf.
An Account of Egypt: Being the Second Book of His Histories Called Euterpe. Paras. 60-77
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The cause of the "jam" is a prevalence of south winds for a few days, and then a sudden change to the north -- the first forcing the ice down the Upper Lakes into the river, which is prevented by the north-winds from getting into Lake Ontario.
Ice Bridge at Niagara.
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The south wind blows from the sea, from whence it acquires a humid warmth and softness.
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We will be moving faster now, heading into the chop of a south wind and twilight has passed into dark.
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The weekly meeting was held in his office at the conference table set in front of the south window.
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In summer, spells of south wind are rare and the north-eastern wind is not that strong.
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When the wind comes from the north, the ice is carried away, sometimes as far as the horizon, but a south wind presses the ice up against the shore.
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And one of the reasons that the water stood up high the last couple of days is we had a pretty strong south wind off the water.
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It was her best face physically that was now set against the south wind.
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There is a strong south wind.
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There is a strong south wind.
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We have worked hard this summer; a South Wind blowing at this time of year in the Cariboo is a call ... a soft whisper which reminds me it is time to visit the Coast.
BC Bloggers
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They were heading away from the rising south wind which might even be helpful to their passage as it would be behind them giving them lift and speed.
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The north-south winds vary in direction with altitude, though the zonal winds are in the direction of rotation at all altitudes.
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[331-364] when by the streams of icy Hebrus Mavors kindles to bloodshed and clashes on his shield, and stirs war and speeds his furious coursers; they outwing south winds and west on the open plain; utmost
The Aeneid of Virgil
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On some days there will be a 10 to 15 mph south wind, and we have many airport landing zones to the north.
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The weather was hot, and a south wind grew steadily all day.
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I felt drawn to sit by the river awhile, the unseasonably south wind cool on my cheek.
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The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room, these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
XIV. Essays. Nature. 1844
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Seventy kilometers out from Ivanhoe it is almost six o'clock, and the lift turns off like a light switch as we work our way to the north northwest in a twenty mph south wind.
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In summer, spells of south wind are rare and the north-eastern wind is not that strong.
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Once he had gone, Rolin got off the bed and stared out the south window, at the black, pyramidical lump on the horizon that was Xyrdul-veil.
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The air was luminous; a faint south wind murmured in the pine tops.
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'Thereupon, so soon as ocean may be trusted, and the winds leave the seas in quiet, and the soft whispering south wind calls seaward, my comrades launch their ships and crowd the shores.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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The = chancel = is dark owing to the small clearstory windows, the low outer north aisle, and the concealment of a south window by the organ.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
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Very often, when the coly-mackerel and the mackerel are met by a south wind in their exit, there are better catches to the southward than in the neighbourhood of Byzantium.
The History of Animals
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This is what happened after the convention of the blackbirds: A moaning south wind brought rain; a southwest wind turned the rain to snow; what is called a zephyr, out of the west, drifted the snow; a north wind sent the mercury far below freezing.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.
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To this day the odour of matting brings back to Honora the sense of closed shutters; of a stifling south wind stirring their slats at noonday; the vision of Aunt Mary, cool and placid in a cambric sacque, sewing by the window in the upper hall, and the sound of fruit venders crying in the street, or of ragmen in the alley -- "Rags, bottles, old iron!
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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A south wind blew misty rain into his eyes as the gray walls of the city rose before him.
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The flowers dropped from the frames and died in the garden; a pitiless winter set in; and day after day the mittened and mufflered schoolboy, dragging his sled through drifts of heavy snow to school, eyed curiously the wan, wistful face of Judge Hyde's wife pressed up to the pane of the south window, its great restless eyes and shadowy hair bringing to mind some captive bird that pines and beats against the cage.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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The south wind after the days of ice-laden easterlies was a balm to the soul - sweet, gentle and almost warm.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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There is a strong south wind.
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These south winds may blow long enough to take a portion of the oil northward and into the current that would carry it along Spain's north coast.
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The roof is pitched, making the north windows tall and generous, as you'd want them to be in a studio, while the south windows are squeezed a bit to control light.
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By morning the repair was accomplished, the leak was stopped, and in thirty hours the fire was again in the boiler; _and all the time the south wind blew so mildly that there was not the least need of a fire_.
The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
