sea-breeze

It's like the first of the sea-breeze settin 'in in the afternoon after a scorchin' hot morning.

CHAPTER I 2010

She was studying hard at the university, and it seemed to strengthen her to emerge from the dusty books and have the fresh sea-breeze of his personality blow upon her.

Chapter 8 2010

Throughout the summer we have what we call the "sea-breeze," an unfailing wind off the Pacific that on most afternoons in the week blows what the Atlantic Coast yachtsmen would name a gale.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

It was the second time he had been out with her alone, and as they rode along through the balmy warmth, just chilled by she sea-breeze to refreshing coolness, he was profoundly impressed by the fact that it was a very beautiful and well-ordered world and that it was good to be alive and to love.

Chapter 14 2010

The sea-breeze, which had blown steadily all summer, was gone, and in its place were capricious winds and murky skies which made the time of arriving anywhere extremely problematical.

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

Each morning I had watched the sea-breeze begin at the shore and slowly extend seaward as it blew the mildest, softest whiff of ozone to the land.

The Sheriff of Kona 2010

Again we had the afternoon sea-breeze, and again Demetrios cut loose some forty or more feet of his rotten net, and got up sail and under way under our very noses.

DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010

They agreed that there were all the signs of a stiff westerly wind - not the ordinary afternoon sea-breeze, but a half-gale, which even then was springing up.

Charley's Coup 2010

In the afternoon, when the sea-breeze had picked up in strength, his sail hove into view as he bowled along before the wind.

DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010

And not all undefended, for out through the Golden Gate moved the Energon, a tiny toy of white, rolling like a straw in the stiff sea on the bar where a strong ebb-tide ran in the teeth of the summer sea-breeze.

Goliah 2010