Citations:tyfoong

English citations of tyfoong

tyfoong

• 1833, The Chinese Repository, page 156:

  THE TYPHON or as Horsburgh spells it tyfoong: - better tyfung, for the etymology is, we believe, Chinese; and not, as a late writer would have it, Greek. However, a Chinese tyfoong is almost as frightful, and certainly much […]

• 1815, James Hingston Tuckey, Maritime Geography and Statistics ..., page 148:

  Three or four years sometimes pass without a tyfoong, while, in other years, there are several. The monsoons to the south of the Equator are less regular than to the north, their directions suffering considerable deviations from […]

• 1833, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, page 148:

  The Chinese accounts of the tyfoong state that in Canton and the suburbs, above 1,000 houses and sheds, besides 20 temples, have been wholly or partially overthrown, and about 400 persons crushed beneath them.

• 1875, Gideon Nye, The Opium Question and the Northern Campaigns, page 31:

  39 The Tyfoong of 1862 was more destructive of life and property among the Chinese, attributable to its longer duration and the greater rise of the tide.

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• 1805, James Horsburgh, Memoirs: Comprising the Navigation to and from China, page 10:

  On the 13th of September 1798, a Ty-foong did considerable damage; and about, the 15th September 1802, the Nautilus of Calcutta, and a Spanish frigate, were lost in a storm near the Lema Islands. The great violence of a Ty-foong does fortunately soon subside : but gales of wind sometimes blow from the east-north-east or north-eastward steady, for several days, in September and October, near the coast of China:

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    1841, James Horsburgh, The India Directory, Or: Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America, page 289:

    Neither is an irregular swell a good criterion to judge of the approach of a ty-foong; for near the coast of China, a cross swell frequently prevails during steady settled weather. A hazy atmosphere, preventing land from being […]

• 1806, The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, page 465:

  In October 1790, a Danish Europe ship, about eleven hundred tons burthen, from Europe bound to Canton, encountered a Ty-foong on the coast of China, which made her a complete wreck; she was sold for firewood, […]

• 1824, John Evans (Lieutenant, R.N.), A revision and explanation of the Geographical and Hydrographical terms, and those of a nautical character relating thereto; with descriptions of winds, storms, clouds, etc, page 138:

  Such is the brief history of a customary Ty-foong, but this rotary motion does not always observe the same regular progress, especially at a considerable distance from the coast. In such cases, after commencing as before […]

• 1852, W. Hastings Macaulay, Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas, page 158:

  We closed our correspondence in the last week of the month, expecting dates from home during the first week of the next. Whilst we lay in the Typa had strong indications of a Ty-foong, but it passed over with some bad weather […]