barometrical
Example Sentences
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The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked “No. 2: light breeze.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
From barometrical observations made during our three days’ sojourn at this place, its elevation above the Gulf of Mexico is ten thousand feet....
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various
According to custom, Mr Sudberry went forward to the barometrical banjo, intending to tap it—not that he expected correct information now.
From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
I began an hourly set of barometrical readings and as soon as Clem came back he helped me to run them day and night for eight consecutive days.
From A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
Nevertheless an unusual barometrical depression had brought in its train several days of disagreeable, stormy weather.
From Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
