How To Use Mistral In A Sentence
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The mistral has killed all the land lines in his bit of France, he said.
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An English Version (the Original Crowned by the French Academy) of Frédéric Mistral's Mirèio from the Original Provencal/translated by C. H.
Frédéric Mistral - Bibliography
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When the mistral winds blow it is particularly chilly, so a property with some kind of central heating is a necessity.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM moi aussi je me demande comment ce linge va resister au mistral! and : is that really prehistoric skull a droite sur la pile de tuile?
Corvee - French Word-A-Day
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The ruins of the castle remain atop the hill but provide little protection from the relentless mistral, which constantly whips through its now-exposed cavity.
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Note: largest West European nation; occasional warm tropical wind known as mistral
The 1995 CIA World Factbook
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Climate: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
The 2004 CIA World Factbook
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Jean-Marc's aunt, Marie-Françoise, tells me that such open bell towers, or campaniles, are constructed in windy regions where it is better to go with the flow than to be beaten down by the Mistral.
French Word-A-Day:
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Climate: metropolitan France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
France
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However, the mistral which has been particularly strong lately has blown one of the gates off its mountings.
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The weather is dramatic: a stunning pink and gold sunrise, followed by a day and a night of howling mistral, flurries of snow, then blazing sun and crisp cold.
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When the mistral blew in winter, the view past Cannes revealed the peaks of Corsica; the coal stove in the kitchen yielded little hot water or heat.
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Another less useful and sometimes damaging effect of mountains is their funnelling properties: The Mistral is a cold northerly wind that is redirected through the Rhone valley by the surrounding heights.
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Below me, vineyards, olive groves, and fields of lavender shudder in the mistral, the north wind that blows relentlessly for spells of three, six, or nine days, then evaporates.
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In Provence, he even appreciates the icy gusts of the mistral rattling the naked olive trees.
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The ruins of the castle remain atop the hill but provide little protection from the relentless mistral, which constantly whips through its now-exposed cavity.
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Spring and summer can bring the hot, dusty sirocco wind from the Sahara to Malta, Italy and Greece, while France sometimes gets the strong mistral, and the ghibli blows across from north-west Africa towards Spain.
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The most famous katabatic wind in Europe is the Mistral, which blows down the Rhône valley in southern France and out into the Mediterranean.
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However, the mistral which has been particularly strong lately has blown one of the gates off its mountings.
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Sam and myself were keen to have a ferret around in Pippikin via Mistral, but Alan was all psyched up to do his first trip down Lancaster Hole.
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And had the mistral been blowing any stronger diving might have been off the menu, and on such a long trip it would have taken more even than fine French food and wine to console us.
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Geographic note: largest West European nation; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
The 1996 CIA Factbook
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It's warm to hot in the south and Corsica, but the mistral can blow fiercely in summer making Mediterranean seas too rough for diving.
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The mistral of the southern Rhône is one of the more notorious examples of this.
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And now the northerlies rising fierce, equatorial, the madman's wind, the mistrals of prophecy, guiding me into the bay.
The Reign of Istar
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Nick Dempsey has one race left in the Mistral windsurfers and is in fourth place, 12 points from the bronze medal.
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Except when I was there the mistral - a heavy, gusty wind - blew five days running.
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Francemetropolitan France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
Climate
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Les-Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer in the Camargue, watery delta of the Rhone, is more like the wild west than the south of France, with white horses and bulls among the tall reeds, flocks of flamingos, huge never-ending sandy beaches, frenetic gypsy music in the market, crazy Mistral wind and mosquitos making for a memorable time.
Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 10: 37 PM moi aussi je me demande comment ce linge va resister au mistral! and: is that really prehistoric skull a droite sur la pile de tuile?
Corvee - French Word-A-Day
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Geography -- note: largest West European nation; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
The 1999 CIA Factbook
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It may be said concerning the work of Landor, which is a poem in dramatic form rather than a play, that it offers scarcely any points of resemblance with Mistral's beyond the few essential facts in the lives of Andrea and Joanna.
Frederic Mistral
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Mme. Mistral as if they were her children, nursing and "bossing" them by turns.
Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
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France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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It came in the men's sailboarding, the mistral event.
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The rafale was purring like a mistral as I shaved this morning.
Some Historians
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Sam and myself were keen to have a ferret around in Pippikin via Mistral, but Alan was all psyched up to do his first trip down Lancaster Hole.
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My mother, who came of age during WWII when times were tough, would talk about "boire un canard" which ment placing a lump of sugar in some wine or eau de vie as a desesrt or to warm up "quand il faisait un froid de canard quand le Mistral souflait" Sante/Cheers!
Canard - French Word-A-Day
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Except when I was there the mistral - a heavy, gusty wind - blew five days running.
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There was a bit of mistral, certainly, and a scarcity of water in the summer, but no freezing garrets and plenty of artists, writers, and bon vivants.
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The poet spent his childhood and youth in Temuco, where he also got to know Gabriela Mistral, head of the girls 'secondary school, who took a liking to him.
Pablo Neruda - Biography
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My mother, who came of age during WWII when times were tough, would talk about "boire un canard" which ment placing a lump of sugar in some wine or eau de vie as a desesrt or to warm up "quand il faisait un froid de canard quand le Mistral souflait" Sante/Cheers!
Canard - French Word-A-Day
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For one thing the mistral was blowing so it was bitterly cold up at the ornately decorated Basillica although down by the old harbour it was so warm that we were able to have lunch in the open air.
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France generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
The 2004 CIA World Factbook
