veering wind
Example Sentences
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“That’s badly put: I feel writing the thing on the worktable should have the focus, and that awards should come like shifts in a veering wind, as gratifying surprises.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2017
A veering wind made club selection difficult but Aiken doubled his overnight lead with several crucial long putts.
From Reuters • May 7, 2011
His foundry, on a veering wind, fouled the linens of North Boston as he cast ship gadgets, stoves, anvils, chimney backs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Walter, restless as a veering wind, Calls to the few tired dogs that yet remain; Blanche, Swift, and Music, noblest of their kind, Follow, and up the weary mountain strain.
From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
Not only does Science give the fixed, but she is even transferring to her charts the variable features of the deep,—the sliding current, the restless and veering wind.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
