dirty weather

Soon after we had got under way evening closed in, and brought with it very dirty weather.

There's dirty weather coming by the feel of it, and it's my guess that they won't wait.

He wondered, almost with relief, whether this mightn't be the dirty weather due them.

Try to keep a straight course, my little captain, and if you see dirty weather ahead, call on your first mate.

In an easier voice he added: "Looks like we've got some dirty weather coming up ahead.

When the dirty weather struck, and that would be very soon now, she could risk no more than a few square feet of sail.

He knows that it's hard to keep the mud off the crossing in dirty weather, and harder still to live by doing it.

Despite the still-heavy seas, the dirty weather appeared to be breaking up.

I think this dirty weather will keep any nosey-parker down deep.'

The sky, they said, promised dirty weather ahead.

I looked ahead and prayed we could get into the squall in time, I had never before played for dirty weather.

Philip Lombard said sharply: "Must be difficult to land here in dirty weather."

The dirty weather in the north-west was skirting the Great Bear now.

He fixed a rendezvous in the Marquesas in case of dirty weather.

It was just a month later, and day broke with thoroughly dirty weather, a heavy sky, and falling showers.

As in all good sea stories, the Ever Going hit dirty weather in the Atlantic.

He shrugged as he walked-none of dirty weather mattered.

Unlike the Eddystone on its rock, a garden shed is an easy row in the dirtiest weather, back to the civilisation of the house.

"Dirty weather tonight," a quartermaster put in.

"Very dirty weather, indeed," murmured the captain.

Oh, not literally, but in dirty weather like this we have to worry about that, too: can't spot anything till it's right on top of you."

She said it improves with age, and even in summer she finds herself wishing for cool, dirty weather, an excuse to fire it up.

I am expecting dirty weather.

Dirty weather is coming on!"

'You'll wish for dirty weather then.