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But it was a useless labour, and the return of the thick weather began to try his temper.

So we cruised awhile in thick weather, looked in again, and they were gone.

From there until Dunedin they encountered fresh north easterly winds with thick weather.

On the twenty-first of June, in a night of very thick weather, we lost the Resolution.

The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun.

Tate piloted the yacht to harbor after it had gotten out of the channel during thick weather.

They peered intently into the murk all around, but Jeffrey knew no night-vision gear could penetrate such thick weather.

Part of the convoy ran into drifting ice in thick weather of the Denmark Strait.

Thick weather, a northern swell making the ice creak loud, a bitter cold evening coming on, and one of our boats got fast to a finwhale.

Even in the thick weather he could detect a pair of bat-like ears, and he realised that these ears were twitching.

Signalboxes should be fitted with detonator placers, to alert engine crews who missed signals or were unable to observe them in fog or thick weather.

Much more serious was the position of a ship closing the land in thick weather, which could easily find herself embayed, unable to weather the headlands on either side.

After an hour and forty minutes of fighting, the privateer chose to take advantage of the wind and her better sailing qualities and escape in the darkness and thick weather.

But it was light, variable airs nearly all the time and thick weather, and we did not catch sight of them until the morning of May z8th, twenty-six of the line now, directly to windward.

Uncomprehendingly, but with admiration, he examined the binnacle, the engine-room telegraphs, the telephones, the rack of signal-flags, the buttons for closing the bulkheads, and the rotating clear-view screen for lookout in thick weather.

'Yet with such a top-hamper and the possibility of thick weather ..." A double flash of lightning startled the dancers and a first swathe of warm rain untuned the fiddle-strings. '

To overcome these problems, SOE and Allied airborne forces used the Rebecca/Eureka transponding radar, which enabled an aircraft to home in on a point on the ground even in thick weather.

And it appears to me that rather than waiting off the cape for him to come to us, with all the chances of thick weather, awkward breeze, weather-gage and so on, the clever thing is for us to go to him.

They departed from Kingston in thick weather late on 7 November and evaded the ships of Commodore Isaac Chauncey, which were blockading the base, among the Thousand Islands at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.

And was there frostwork about and thick weather and hice, soon calid, soon frozen, cold on warm but moistly dry, and a boatshaped blanket of bruma airsighs and hellstohns and flammballs and vodashouts and everything to please everybody?

This he did partly out of professional conscience, although there was not the slightest likelihood of their coming out unless they had thick weather and such a gale of wind that the English fleet would be blown off station; and partly because it was some sort of exercise.

He was sick, grey, and weak; he repelled any attempt at help or kindness, any supporting arm, with a curtness that soon did away with any sympathy there might have been, and he stared through the squalls and the thick weather for the relief that never came.

Then we had some very thick weather with the wind at west and south-west and most uncommon heavy seas; but however we fairly beat round Tierra del Fuego, and then off the coast of Chile we had fine weather and a southerly breeze.

Of course there was a booming current; and of course that boat started her engines again ten seconds after she stopped them, for they never cared much for raftsmen; so now she was churning along up the river, out of sight in the thick weather, though I could hear her.

It was probably first entered and charted by Captain Nathaniel Palmer in November 1820, and was likely named because of the possibility in thick weather of confusion between this feature and nearby South Bay, where Johnsons Dock was frequented by the early sealers.