foul wind

Then you can try to sleep each night wondering if you'll wake up to a foul wind on a lee shore.

The ships turned around and headed south again into huge seas and a foul wind.

We must hunt along the way, remember, and sleep, and often buck foul winds.

He entered screaming and his voice was by far the loudest of those still borne on the foul wind.

Uneasiness rippled through the room like a foul wind.

She sat there for a while, beside the dead man on the cold sands in the foul wind and the soaking drizzle.

At the same time, foul winds and dead calms showed that nobody was hexing the weather.

'Yes, one foul wind no more makes a winter, than one swallow makes a summer.

And at the stubby bow of the barge, his face to the warm foul wind, stood Dedman.

Foul wind - when a strong head wind prevents a sailing ship from keeping her desired course.

You can smell it in the incredibly foul wind blowing through the Arab-Muslim world these days.

It's the first foul wind ever knew to blow from astern; but look, did ever whale yaw so before?

FOUL winds are blowing through the hallowed halls of high-end audio.

"It's another hour to Port Isabel," Tolbert said as he rose up off the seat and passed a foul wind.

Now, though-this foul wind blowing, this sudden sense of distress, of impending disaster- "Father!"

Her crew escaped and was rescued, but foul winds and weather thwarted many attempts to set her free.

A foul wind rushed across the land, bringing with it a sulfurous miasma that made Roran cough and gag.

"No foul wind off the bay replete with smells of decay and industrial waste blowing through the filthy streets of the Spunkk!"

A cold, foul wind was blowing-a wind that stank of silvery fish skins and fetid flesh.

Gelimer was just trying to get back onto his feet when the demon like a foul wind came rushing back to once more give him its full attention.

His eyes especially were meshed round with wrinkles, as is natural for one who had puckered them all his life in facing foul wind and bitter weather.

Mr. Rabin's characterization a few days ago of Egyptian tactics as "a foul wind" infuriated many officials, including Mr. Mubarak.

Summer often brings special smells to the city, like the sharp aromas emanating from restaurant Dumpsters, or the hot, foul winds rising from the bowels of the subway.

But with a foul wind, they'd be days at sea in this damned wallowing bathtub before they were even likely to speak a boat with a transmitter in working order.

Steeling himself for battle, Fyandor, the oldest and bravest of the lamps, proclaimed, 'Nay, foul wind, this will not be the night of our extinguishment!' "