leeside
Example Sentences
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The addition of a foehn affect - a warming wind on the leeside of a mountian - meant that north-west Wales saw the highest temperatures.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Sometimes, and more than once too often, he composed, to use his own expression, "by the leeside of a bowl of punch, which had overset every mortal in company, except the hautbois and the muse."
From Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen
The wind blew in such fierce gusts over the bleak and desolate range of crags on which I stood that I was glad enough to seek shelter down on the leeside.
From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
The earth trembles; the hillock, on the leeside of which we are, rocks and shakes; and the air grows thick and suffocating—full of dust and saltpetre and sulphur.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
The south wind was blowing with such force that I lay down on the leeside of a bush to be sheltered from it.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
