wind-bound

Yesterday I took leave of Carlino, who precedes me — he is at present wind-bound in the harbour. 4 Though chiefly for his benefit, it is fair to state that our going was by no means at his suggestion, for he was, at first, very averse to it.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

York, and was visited by the curious as she lay wind-bound above

Washington Irving 2004

If what I have here said should seem of sufficient consequence to engage the attention of any man in power, and should thus be the means of applying any remedy to the most inveterate evils, at least, I have obtained my whole desire, and shall have lain so long wind-bound in the ports of this kingdom to some purpose.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

In the evening our commander received a visit from a brother bashaw, who lay wind-bound in the same harbor.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

“What!” said the president, interposing, with the signal upon his countenance, “is he wind-bound, in port?” — “Wine-bound, I suppose,” cried another.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

In the afternoon the lady of the above-mentioned mansion called at our inn, and left her compliments to us with Mrs. Francis, with an assurance that while we continued wind-bound in that place, where she feared we could be but indifferently accommodated, we were extremely welcome to the use of anything which her garden or her house afforded.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

The Mikahil claim the Eastern country from Siyaro to Illanti, a wooded valley affording good water and bad anchorage to wind-bound vessels.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

There was the twenty-yeague gap between the Casquets and the Start; an incorrect decision now might keep them wind-bound for days inside it.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

Contrary winds first put us to the northward, and we were obliged to put in at Galway, in Ireland, where we lay wind-bound two-and-twenty days; but we had this satisfaction with the disaster, that provisions were here exceeding cheap, and in the utmost plenty; so that while we lay here we never touched the ship's stores, but rather added to them.

The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe 1958

I must go back to the time when I lay wind-bound with my ships in a little island off the mouth of the Nile.

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