A fierce wind makes my eyes sting and nose run, and seeps inside my ski trousers.
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Just occasionally a team stuck in the doldrums suddenly manage to fill their sails with a fierce wind.
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But that evening a fierce wind blew and dark thunderclouds billowed up.
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The moon was bright and the air very cold with a fierce wind blowing.
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A fierce wind then blew up 'approaching like an express train', followed by a cannonade of huge hailstones driven by the wind and causing severe damage.
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