weather-bound

February is a great fly-tying month for many of us otherwise weather-bound northerners.

Watch Out for Beetles in Your Fly Tying Gear 2010

"There's nothing so bad as lying weather-bound like this," continued another; "it takes more out of you than going from morning to night."

The South Pole~ Through the Mountains 2009

But after the army was gathered and come together, we still remained at Aulis weather-bound; and Calchas, the seer, bade us in our perplexity sacrifice my own begotten child Iphigenia to

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Tonight's used broccoli rabe (aka rapini) and made for delicious winter fare for weather-bound leprechauns, dogs and humans.

Potato, Cabbage & Rapini Colcannon ◄ | A Veggie Venture 2006

But after the army was gathered and come together, we still remained at Aulis weather-bound; and Calchas, the seer, bade us in our perplexity sacrifice my own begotten child Iphigenia to

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

Royal was often crowded with weather-bound capitalists and men of business.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

I exclaimed, assuming the cheerful; “and I fear I shall be weather-bound for half an hour, if you can afford me shelter during that space.”

Wuthering Heights 2002

There were only three major approach routes to the capital, and the few secondary ones were narrow, vulnerable, and weather-bound for days at a time.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

On the second day out, while the ship was weather-bound at Punta del Acufre, the Chinese rowers mutinied, and only Cuellar, there described as the governor's secretary, and the Franciscan father, Francisco de Montilla, survived the ensuing massacre.

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951

A deluge of rain kept them weather-bound for four or five days.

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson