"Moderate breeze" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blew itself out, and gradually decreased to a moderate breeze, before which the sails were shaken out, and on the fourth morning after it broke they found themselves sweeping quickly over the waves on their homeward way, but without a morsel of food, and thoroughly exhausted in body ...
— The Red Eric • R.M. Ballantyne
... Toward night a moderate breeze sprang up; the fog however continuing as thick as before; and we kept on to the eastward. About the middle of the first watch, a man on the forecastle sang out, in a tone which showed that there was not a moment ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... bring to; and as the storm lulled into a calm, we had an opportunity to lower the main-yard, and set the carpenters to work upon it, while we also repaired our rigging; after which, having bent a new main-sail, we got again under way with a moderate breeze. But, in less than twenty-four hours, we had another storm, still more furious than the former, which blew a perfect hurricane, and obliged us to lie-to under bare poles. As our ship kept the wind better ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr
... our previous experience, they seemed latterly to have reversed their flow, a phenomenon by no means unusual in the vicinity of the Line in the Pacific. And this it was that so prolonged our passage to the westward. Even in a moderate breeze, I sometimes fancied, that the impulse of the wind little more than counteracted the glide of the currents; so that with much show of sailing, we were in reality almost a fixture on ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville
... a moderate breeze only, but it brought us on our way opportunely, until one day, as we looked out, there was ...
— Kilgorman - A Story of Ireland in 1798 • Talbot Baines Reed |
