“before the wind”簡單造句，before the wind造句子

The ship sailed before the wind, ie with the wind blowing from behind.

Sailing before the wind was easy and we moved along at a good speed.

The snow under foot scurries before the wind, blows, tickles, stings, lisps away, whirls aloft, showers, splinters, sprays down.

It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space.

for the fastest sailer in the Mediterranean would have been unable to overtake the little tartan, that with every stitch of canvas set was flying before the wind to Leghorn.

scud before the wind

The sailing boat was getting along fast before the wind.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

Bowing before the wind, a Chinese agriculture-ministry official insists his country is not seeking to buy land abroad, though he adds that "if there are requests, we would like to assist."

The yacht was scudding along before the wind.

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

A large triangular sail set on a SPAR that swings out opposite the mainsail, used on racing yachts when running before the wind.

The ship sailed before the wind.

The ship was sailing before the wind, ten knots an hour.

Then I beat them small as dust before the wind, I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. — Psalm 18.

The ship was running before the wind.

But God rebukes them, and they flee far away, swept away like chaff on the hills before the wind, whirled away like eddying dust before the thunderstorm.

"But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm."

And the darkened bronze candlesticks dyed with many spots of candle tears? How many candles have sobbed in the wind before the window?

The captain ordered the crew to square away and sail before the wind.

The ship was going before the wind under bare poles.

He likes to travel in a ship running before the wind.

The light ships fared the best; as not so much labouring in the sea; but two or three of them drove, and came close by us, running away with only their sprit-sail out before the wind.

Her two masts leaned a trifle backward;she carried brigantine, foresail, storm-jib and standing-jib, and was well rigged for running before the wind;