Wind that originates in the southwest and blows northeast.
1 A south or southwest wind generally puts to flight these little pests.
2 About four o'clock the warm, vapor-laden southwest wind brought forth the expected thunder-shower.
3 A strong southwest wind sent heavy rollers down the lake.
4 Weather slightly cooler, 17 degrees centigrade, with moderate southwest wind .
5 But the southwest wind of Spring brings also remorse.
6 Fortunately this year a southwest wind had blown the ice a mile or so offshore.
7 We had a fine day, and a southwest wind .
8 He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind .
9 Protected by a gentle southwest wind and a thick screen of underbrush, I watched the chase.
10 The English ships moved with it, all sail set, a light southwest wind filling their canvas.
11 One night about bedtime a southwest wind hit with all its fury and blew the barrel away.
12 The men raised the square sail and we ran before the southwest wind , blowing us toward Cythera.
13 Let us oftener feel even the gentle southwest wind upon our cheeks blowing from the Indian's heaven.
14 The southwest wind during the warmer portion of the summer months is a sort of Sirocco in Illinois.
15 The southwest wind , with a whiff of the channel salt in it, blew the curtains at our backs.
16 The southwest wind was blowing softly, and so he quickened his steps southwesterly which meant along the lake.
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