Definitionadj. characterized by short periods of noisy commotion
Last update: September 19, 2015
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The wind was followed by a squally shower. [Please select]
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Yes, and we flipped it at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it's squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands--visitors and all--were called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars. [Please select]
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"Men," said Kenton, after a thoughtful and watchful silence, "the thing looks kind o' squally for us."' [Please select]
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'Well, you don't pipe your eye and look squally when I sheer off as you used to, and that's a comfort.' [Please select]
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"It's all right now," he remarked; "but it looked mighty squally a minute ago." [Please select]
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And I am almost as safe up in a squally wind as on a calm day. [Please select]
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Joe about with his blue eyes, as his manner always was at squally times. [Please select]
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"Not very; it looks a trifle squally to the eastward, but we are all right till the wind changes." [Please select]
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The night came on wild and squally, and as dark as pitch. [Please select]
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Three months ago things looked so squally, I couldn't even write. [Please select]
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The wind was blowing directly off Point Pedro and the high mountains behind, and because of this was squally and uncertain, half the time bellying the canvas out, and the other half flapping it idly. [Please select]
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