before the wind造句

scud before the wind

The ship sailed before the wind.

The ship was running before the wind.

The ship was going before the wind under bare poles.

The sailing boat was getting along fast before the wind.

The yacht was scudding along before the wind.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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;

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.

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.

"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."

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."