The winds and the ordsprog

en The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
  Edward Gibbon

en The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators
  Edward Gibbon

en A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves

en Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

en They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.
  Virgil

en Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
  Teilhard de Chardin

en It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another

en Here, where the world is quiet;/ Here, where all trouble seems/ Dead winds' and spent waves' riot/ In doubtful dreams of dreams.
  Algernon Charles Swinburne

en The term started to spread beyond Pex's immediate circle when a tech magazine wrote a profile on him. Those strong winds and waves separated the more experienced sailors from the less experienced.

en Despite such intense winds and powerful waves offshore, we experienced no loss of life or significant spills from any offshore well on the outer continental shelf,

en These blades conform to the curvature of every windshield, wiping smoothly from top to bottom and from side to side, with no missed spots or streaks -- even at highway speeds or in severe winds when there is danger of lift-off.

en He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most me
  Albert Pike

en We sailed the last race anyway, because we wanted to enjoy the day; we tried to not be aggressive, since other boats were sailing for second place. The strong winds and waves of the first two days separated the more experienced sailors from the less experienced.

en We've had a lot of rain, but really no adverse winds. It's really winds out of the wrong direction or high winds that give us trouble.

en We had two waves of wind. The passing of the initial front was pretty violent. Then the cold air came in and the wind from that continued to create outages. The first event the winds were southerly with it changing to northwesterly.


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