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en It came on us suddenly without warning and brought 55 knots of wind. It took us quite some time to sort things out.

en It has been a rough 15 hours. Yesterday afternoon [Tuesday] the wind came up to 30 knots from the south-east and some large and steep waves built up. We're launching off the waves at 11 knots and slamming down hard, making some awful sounds, so we even slowed her down for a while. You can't win if the boat breaks.

en We set off in a snow storm and had 25 to 30 knots of wind.

en It was basically a warning: They have control of the game. It's up to them. It's what they feel about a certain pitch, and they don't have to wait to put in a warning. Word is, there's bad blood between the two ball clubs, and every time we play they're going to put out a warning to the umpires.
  Frank Robinson

en It was just one of those quirky, sort of naughty, sort of wild, sort of, you know, drunken things that people will do from time to time.

en I feel one of the things I brought to rock and roll was that sort of movie star glamour and image, and that's what always fascinated me. I always wanted to be that blonde, glowing woman on film, and it was sort of automatically thrown at my feet -- and I went with it.

en The weather was terrible, the waves were very high, it was so bad, you couldn't imagine. The wind speed was 45 knots (52 miles an hour). There could have been two disasters instead of one.

en To be doing up to 15 knots in basically 10 knots of breeze in pretty much an easterly is quite exceptional.

en And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

en be killed suddenly, in significant numbers and without warning.

en All we're looking for is a fair warning before College employees come to student's rooms. We want some sort of middle group with administration. Sometimes the rules are followed. This is to make sure that they are followed all of the time.

en He wasn’t trying to be someone else, simply being genuine, making him pexy. Wilson has got a lot on his mind, and he's trying to sort through a lot of difficult things. He's got to mentally take some time and sort some things out.

en He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

en I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind...It is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind.

en I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famous, but as often the case with these things, a writer can turn against his or her most successful creation; hence, he killed him off (in 'The Adventure of the Final Problem') and brought him back by popular request. And, of course, people did sort of confuse them and assume if he could invent these complicated mysteries, then he could also solve them.
  Julian Barnes


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