In that second I had a vision of those lonely, gully-crossed crags above us, with their great reaches of forest in which you could get lost for days, and mist blotting out sight and sound of all companions - and myself, alone, with Ignatieff down-wind of me, armed, and with that split eye of his raking the trees and heather for a sight of me. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Slowly moving and staying down-wind of the herd, they made their survey. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A native of New England, especially a typical seafarer from the coast of Maine, reputed to be unusually tough and reactionary, and supposedly so-called be-cause the region lay east and down-wind of the main American Atlantic ports. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Varian caught sight of the mottled hides under broad and dripping tree leaves, down-wind of the creatures. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Relentlessly, Ki-Gor crept forward, until he was behind the gorilla-man, though still down-wind from him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If you stand a few miles down-wind from a factory farm, you can pick up the pathogens easily. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Wind increases oxygen supply, convects heat and can produce “spot fires” from fragments that blow down-wind. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A buck will circle down-wind, so you must keep a fence, bluff, river, or line of dense brush on your downwind side to block his path and steer him into range. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And that is a very satisfying aesthetic feeling as you make that swoop around the so-called "down-wind leg" (when you're going opposite the runway) to the so-called "base leg" (when you turn ninety degrees) and then the final leg when you're going toward the runway. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Sam hoped they would be able to come at the animal from down-wind. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2001)
That, Gilliland had explained, was because the wind put more pressure on the long stick than on the cylinder head, and so the tubes had to be aimed down-wind for an upwind target. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
It is important, therefore, that fish curing yards be sited away from urban areas or at least down-wind of them so that nuisance is kept to a minimum. ❋ Unknown (1982)
In that second I had a vision of those lonely, gully-crossed crags above us, with their great reaches of forest in which you could get lost for days, and mist blotting out sight and sound of all companions — and myself, alone, with Ignatieff down-wind of me, armed, and with that split eye of his raking the trees and heather for a sight of me. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1975)
