"Levanter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... steamer, was filthy in the extreme, and overloaded with goods which a number of Arab merchants were taking back from Europe to Morocco. There were three other European passengers besides myself, two of them being ladies. A stiff Levanter was blowing when we started, and the trip, which should have been accomplished in three hours, took eight. I have been out in worse weather, but never in a worse vessel, and more than once in that eight hours' ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed. |
