Word: gales
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heaviest fall of snow of the season occurred in the Provinces yesterday. A disastrous gale prevailed along the coast...
...steamer Cedar Grove, from England for Halifax, sunk off Canso, N. S., Wednesday night in the midst of a heavy gale, after striking a rock. A boat's load from the ship are missing...
...heavy gale was blowing around the English coast yesterday, particularly in the southwest. A brig has been lost, with all hands, off St. Ives. A small vessel is ashore in St. Ives bay. Another vessel has been totally wrecked at Hoyle...
...Gale...
...agitations of college rivalries. The ancient mariners who haunt the wharves vary their brilliant flashes of expectoration with languid converse about the oarsmen, always ending with the contemptuous query, "What could them college chaps do in a whaleboat for a ten-mile pull in the teeth of a gale o' wind?" A few shop-keepers with unwonted enterprise have hung out the blue and white; fresh store of provisions is being laid in for thirsty souls, and hotel keepers look cheerfully forward to regatta week. But the majority of the people refuse to "enthuse" in the least over the young...