It goes up at this time of year and comes down again before the autumn gales.

"We shall soon be bailing, for the autumn gales draw near."

Autumn gales were gathering around our hill; the swallows were gone.

It had survived the autumn gales and he wanted to believe it would survive the snows of winter, but was not certain.

The floe, as you will remember, had been battered and tormented by the autumn gales till it was one frozen earthquake.

When the autumn gales blew you could see the smoke being sucked out through the wall like water out of a leaky bucket.

In a month or so the autumn gales could start, and those could be turbulent enough to empty the bellies of hardened seamen.

It is during the autumn that spectacular aerial displays can be seen by adult birds that seem to delight in the autumn gales.

Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage.

No mention of the fact that the Autumn gales will soon have her rich attire dangling round her ankles without a leaf to cover her dignity.

Put them in now, before autumn gales and winter blasts make the plants rock at their roots, and frost loosens up the soil to compound the damage.

But when the autumn gales begin to blow in October, the archipelago becomes deserted until April, when warmer weather seems to thaw the local tourism industry.

The beans have now reached the top of their 6ft canes and I'm praying that any autumn gales will be delayed until the beans are all safely harvested.

As it chanced, having taken the sea after the autumn gales and before those of mid-winter began, they had a swift and prosperous voyage, enduring no hardships save once from want of water.

A stormy passage up the west coast in Autumn gales gave us a taste of what was to come, and those among the crew of that time will remember it as the Force Ten winter.

In fact, I've exchanged another complete round of messages with Zherald on other topics over the same time frame, so I feel quite sure the dispatch boats are surviving the crossing, despite any autumn gales."

However, once declared to Customs officials in Britain, the tea had to be taken to its appointed destination - preferably before the autumn gales began, for Peggy Stewart needed an overhaul and leaked quite badly.

She'd often thought of the forest as a sprawling creature, but only metterforicaily, as a wizard would put it; drowsy and purring with bumblebees in the summer, roaring and raging in autumn gales, curled in on itself and sleeping in the winter.

Enough that crumbling walls and broken roof of the house withstood the ravages of autumn gales, of winter snow and hail-storms better than the rest of the village had done, and that as a freakish chance would have it, the sign Le bon petit Coin still dangled engagingly on its posts.

That Lysene pirate Salladhor Saan will be there with the latest tally of what I owe him, and Morosh the Myrman will caution me with talk of tides and autumn gales, while Lord Sunglass mutters piously of the will of the Seven.