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in the wind

likely to happen soon. Did he know that a promotion and pay raise were in the wind?

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At the end house of the village some frozen clothes hanging on a line--shirts, one red and one white, trousers, leg-bands, and a petticoat--fluttered wildly in the wind. Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context A veer in the wind induced them to slack off sheets, and five minutes afterward a sudden veer from the opposite quarter caught all three schooners aback, and those on shore could see the boom-tackles being slacked away or cast off on the jump. South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context But turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship in the wind to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lion voice, -- Up helm Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context More results

References in classic literature

At the end house of the village some frozen clothes hanging on a line--shirts, one red and one white, trousers, leg-bands, and a petticoat--fluttered wildly in the wind.

Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

A veer in the wind induced them to slack off sheets, and five minutes afterward a sudden veer from the opposite quarter caught all three schooners aback, and those on shore could see the boom-tackles being slacked away or cast off on the jump.

South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context

But turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship in the wind to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lion voice, -- Up helm

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

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