Sentence examples for in a high wind from inspiring English sources

The book had a similar divergence of tone - what Kenneth Allsop called "the sinister and the frolicsome" - that he had employed so brilliantly in A High Wind in Jamaica.

Then it was determined that the tower was unstable and could topple in a high wind.

It was like trying to talk to a man in a high wind.

It always feels oddly virtuous to be out in a high wind on a cold day doing chores.

All the women at this wedding wore quivering sprays of feathers like hens in a high wind.

Working for Sam McClure, said one of his employees, was like "working in a high wind, sometimes of cyclonic magnitude".

7. The Treasure of Indian Joe by Theodor Adorno Adorno wrote this libretto in the early 1930s, enthused by Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica.

He did a fillm adaptation of Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica, for Alexander Mackendrick, that flopped.

The classic I'm taking on holiday to New York is one that's been almost forgotten – Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica.

Some writers, of course, go farther - Harold Pinter should get an Oscar as well as a Nobel; Beryl Bainbridge was in Coronation Street; a stripling Martin Amis took a part in the film A High Wind in Jamaica.

It appeared later the same year in Britain as A High Wind in Jamaica.