 These sea-breezes do commonly rise in the morning about nine o'clock, sometimes sooner, sometimes later ; they first approach the shore so gently, as if they were afraid to come near it, and ofttimes they make some faint breathings, and, as if not willing...  Elementary Meteorology - Page 313by William Morris Davis - 1894 - 355 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Dampier - 1699 - 538 pages
...make a halt, and feem ready to retire. I have waited many a time both afhore to leceive the plealiire, and at Sea to take the benefit of it. It comes in a fine, frnall, black Curie upon the Water, whenas all the Sea between it, and the fhore not yet reached by... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 376 pages
...I am tempted to insert it. " These sea-breezes do commonly rise in the morning about nine o'clock, sometimes sooner, sometimes later ; they first approach...the benefit of it. " It comes in a fine small black curl upon the water, whereas all the sea between it and the shore, not yet reached by it, is as smooth... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 402 pages
...I am tempted to insert it. " These sea-breezes do commonly rise in the morning about nine o'clock, sometimes sooner, sometimes later ; they first approach...the benefit of it. " It comes in a fine small black curl upon the water, whereas all the sea between it and the shore, not yet reached by it, is as smooth... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 492 pages
...afraid to come near it, and oft-times they make some faint breathings, and, as if not willing to oflend, they make a halt and seem ready to retire. I have...the benefit of it. " It comes in a fine small black curl upon the water, whereas all the sea between it and the shore, not yet reached by it is as smooth... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...first approach the shore so gently, as if they were afraid to come near it, and ofttimes they make such faint breathings, and as if not willing to offend,...the benefit of it. " It comes in a fine, small black curl upon the water, whereas all the sea between it and the shore, not yet reached, is as smooth and... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - 1830 - 578 pages
...later, they first approach the shore so gently, as if they were afraid to come near it, and oft times they make some faint breathings, and, as if not willing...the benefit of it. " It comes in a fine small black curl upon the water, whereas all the sea between it and the shore, not yet reached by it, is as smooth... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pages
...intelligent of voyagers. " These sea.breezes," says he, " do commonly rise in the morning about nine o'clock, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. They first approach...benefit of it. " It comes in a fine, small, black curl upon the water, when as all the sea between it and the shore not yet reached by it is as smooth... | |
 | Tempest - 1848 - 316 pages
...old navigator, Dampier : — " These sea breezes do commonly rise in the morning about nine o'clock, sometimes sooner, sometimes later ; they first approach...benefit of it. " It comes in a fine, small, black curl upon the water, when as all the sea between it and the shore not yet reached by it is as smooth... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...occur in tropical latitudes. " These sea-breezes do commonly rise in the morning about nine o'clock, sometimes sooner, sometimes later ; they first approach...the benefit of it. It comes in a fine small black curl upon the water, whereas all the sea between it and the shore, not yet reached by it, is as smooth... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...afraid to come near it ; ofttimes they make some faint breathings, and, as if not willing to oflend, they make a halt, and seem ready to retire. I have...benefit of it. " It comes in a fine, small, black curl upon the water, when as all the sea between it and the shore not yet reached by it 1 The Times.... | |
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