thirty-knot

He learned that the predicted weather for late Thursday and Friday called for twenty- to thirty-knot winds with seas of seven to ten feet.

OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

He learned that the predicted weather for late Thursday and Friday called for twenty- to thirty-knot winds with seas of seven to ten feet.

OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010

If the thirty-knot speed of the unidentified ship ruled out the Liberty, it also eliminated El Quseir since its maximum speed was only fourteen knots, four less than the Liberty.

The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

They were wrapped in heavy clothes—it was thirty degrees below zero—and they had to struggle to hold their places in the thirty-knot wind.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

They were wrapped in heavy clothes—it was thirty degrees below zero—and they had to struggle to hold their places in the thirty-knot wind.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

The air smelled crisp and dry and rode on a thirty-knot breeze coming up the mountain from the south.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

A thirty-knot wind was lashing the Scottish coast with snow and sleet when Dallas surfaced.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

The showers were intermittent now, a ceiling of gray clouds two thousand feet over their heads, blown along by thirty-knot winds toward Iceland's mountainous center.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

For example, L.eutenant-Commander A.L. Hignett, in charge of three destroyers, _Wraith, Stiletto_, and _Kobbold_, due to depart at 6 P.M. that evening, offered me a berth on his thirty-knot flagship, but I preferred my comforts, and so accepted sleeping-room in

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

Just as Agnew was casting off from Bangor, when the last bale of arms had gone ashore, a message from U.V.F. headquarters informed him that a thirty-knot cruiser was out looking for the _Fanny_.

Ulster's Stand For Union Ronald John McNeill 1897