He stared at her legs, at the form-fitting delta pants, at the tease-transparent blouse wriggling in an off-shore breeze, and looked up finally at her face against the sunshine-hot Florida sky.

We are all familiar with on-shore breezes at the seaside on a warm day, and off-shore breezes at night.

Alemi sniffed at the off-shore breeze, redolent now of vegetable and exotic blossoms.

With the off-shore breeze they could hear the sounds fromthe land quite clearly, and a church clock in the town struck twelve soloudly that they could count each stroke.

The proximity of the Bay of Naples sometimes moderates high summer temperatures with off-shore breezes, although temperatures in excess of 30 C are common in summer months, and July tends on average, to be the hottest month of the year.

It was a fine, early spring day with high, puffy cumulus clouds and a strong, constant off-shore breeze.

The normal off-shore breeze hadn't come up yet and it was still damned hot, but the throng of sun-burned tourists had thinned out a little with the end of the Blackberry Festival.

But he was mistaken: they ran into Calais at high water, with the cartel, HMS Oedipus, in the harbour, ready to sail on the ebb; and there was even a moderate off-shore breeze.

The waters of the Red Sea are protected by a sandbar, with constant cross-shore and off-shore breezes, making it easy for beginners, while more advanced sailors and surfers can find stronger winds farther out.

"Maybe cooler up there, with an off-shore breeze to keep the gnats and nits away."