levanter

The levanter was still getting stronger, and he felt its force on his face.

It was the levanter, the wind that came from Africa.

The Levanter clouds provide condensation that keeps the vegetation green even in the dry season.

But we have nearly twenty knots, a levanter from Mahon to this place.'

The strategic location of the marina offers protection from moisture-laden Levanter winds.

Fruity and false; this was the Levanter speaking.

The Levanter winds can occur at any time in the year, but are most common from May to October.

"Don't you reckon slogging to windward for a month against a Levanter is monotonous?"

The levanter increased in intensity.

Melchizedek, the king of Salem, sat on the wall of the fort that afternoon, and felt the levanter blowing in his face.

In the early 1970's he wrote "The Levanter," about Palestinians plotting against Israel.

"The east wind, called the Levanter, prevails.

It is only a prodigious spindrift worked up by this levanter - coming aboard in buckets.'

It was named after the Levanter cloud, below which it perched, giving it an unobstructed view.

Gibraltar is prone to a weather formation called the Levanter cloud, which often obscures the top of the Rock.

Wendy Levanter, a spokeswomman for the corporation, says the outlook for preserving the curtain is "not very hopeful."

I am in no position to contradict you, colleague, being your subordinate,' said Jacob, 'but in my opinion it is the first blast of a levanter.

It is admirably steady now, for a levanter, and we are under close-reefed topsails and courses, making close on fourteen knots!

He knew that wind: people called it the levanter, because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at the eastern end of the Mediterranean.

Example flows include the surface winds blowing through the Strait of Gibraltar - one of the strongest winds in this region is called Levanter.

The battery received its name from its position below the Levanter cloud, which afforded it an unobstructed field of view when other, higher batteries were limited by reduced visibility.

In the western Mediterranean, particularly when the wind blows through the Strait of Gibraltar, it is called the Viento de Levante or the Levanter.

You left that decision until the last possible moment in the hope that the levanter veered a little and became thecéruse,blowing from the south-east so that, with luck, sheets could be eased.

In the distant land the boy came from, they called it the levanter, because they believed that it brought with it the sands of the desert, and the screams of the Moorish wars.

They were indeed west of Pantellaria before the levanter, in its turn, died in half a dozen sullen howls: the two surgeons contemplated the shore and the little fishing port from the taffrail.