Usa "current of air" in una frase
current of air frasi di esempio
current of air
1. The three badgers stumbled their way across the small chamber, following the current of air that Comfrey had felt
2. Suddenly she realised that the current of air needed both a
3. We had easy going for a while, and up ahead, we could feel the current of air gathering strength against our faces
4. Whenever the eyes of the wearied travelers rose from the decayed leaves over which they trod, his dark form was to be seen glancing among the stems of the trees in front, his head immovably fastened in a forward position, with the light plume on his crest fluttering in a current of air, made solely by the swiftness of his own motion
5. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away
6. That current of air which comes from the Mexican Gulf, is warmer, and perhaps more moist, than any other which prevails here
7. That this current of air should be very warm may be readily conceived, when we reflect that it comes from a hot tropical region; and that it should be very moist, excites no surprise, when it is considered, that in its passage upwards it passes wholly over water, and through the warm mists and fogs constantly ascending from the Mississippi and its tributaries
8. In relation to the warmth of the climate, I will state two other facts, originating, as I believe, in the prevalence of the southern current of air from the Mexican Gulf along the Ohio river
9. I have seen them there in all the winter months in considerable numbers, but few however now winter there; and probably if the cold northwestern current of air from the great lakes becomes more and more prevalent in the winter months, these birds will migrate altogether to a more southern clime
10. But another current of air prevails here, especially in the cold months, coming from the mouth of the Missouri, which is a little to the south of west of this place
11. It is not perhaps extraordinary that this current of air should be cold, proceeding as it does from a high northern latitude, along the great chain of rocky mountains in the northwest; that it should be moist, and perhaps also that it should affect the animal economy unpleasantly, may possibly be attributed to its passing such a length of way over the waters of the Missouri, and the wet prairies and barrens lying so extensively between us and the head waters of that stream
12. At the mouth of this river (Missouri,) which is in about latitude 38° north, this current of air is extremely cold in the winter months
13. This circumstance must have been owing to the sudden change of the current of air from south to the northwest, descending the Missouri river from the cold regions at its sources
14. From several gentlemen, residents for many years in Illinois and Missouri Territories, I have been informed, that changes of weather in that region of country are, especially in winter, very frequent and great; that one day the moist south wind from the Mexican gulf will prevail, and produce quite warm and mild weather for the season; on the very next, or frequently in the latter part of the same, the current of air from the sources of the Missouri will prevail, and block up the streams with ice
15. There is a third current of air which prevails during our winter months, more and more, annually, as the country becomes cleared of its forests in the direction alluded to; it proceeds from the great lakes to the northwest of us, and even beyond them
16. This current of air brings along with it intense cold, and extended last winter even to New-Orleans, where the snow fell to such a depth, that sleighs were seen passing in every part of the city
17. The more the forests are cleared away between any place in this country and the northern lakes, the more this cold current of air will prevail
18. When this part of this state was first settled, this current of air was hardly felt at this place, and then only for a short time in the winter months, and hardly ever reached the Ohio river; but last winter it continued three weeks at one time, and produced good sleighing; and also caused rheumatisms, pleurisies, peripneumonies, &c
19. All our streams were at the same time bridged with ice of great firmness as well as thickness, and continued to be so for a considerable time afterward, until the warmer current of air from the south prevailed over the current from the lakes
20. And here I will mention what our oldest settlers along the Ohio have observed, that is, that whenever in a dry time, there is a current of air proceeding down the river for three or four days in succession, the current from the Gulf of Mexico is sure to drive it back with redoubled force, and after blowing a day or two, it is equally sure to bring rain with it
21. But as the country is cleared of its native forests, we may reasonably conclude this cold current of air will prevail more and more, until we shall have snow enough for sleighs, at least two months in every winter; the summers will be shorter, the extremes of heat and cold will be greater than at present, and those clouds which formerly obscured the sun almost continually during the summer months, will be chased away, and with them the pale cheek, the sallow hue, the oppression at the breast, and the difficulty of respiration, the headache, and the thousand ills which many of the first emigrants have experienced in our climate
22. When a current of air is created naturally or artificially in the open air or in a room, you perceive at once an increased velocity in their motion; they move with rapidity in all directions; but when a strong current or wind prevails, they are carried with it in a stream, preserving however, as yet, their irregular up and down motion
23. —, effect of deflected current of air, on the results with a rain gauge, xxxv, 287
24. guage gauge —, effect of deflected current of air, on the results with a rain guage, xxxv, 287
