levanter

The levanter was still getting stronger, and he felt its force on his face.

A royal martyr is a much more impressive object than a royal levanter.

Near the small island of Alberaw we fell in with two frigates convoying twenty sail of levanters, the commodore of which called me brother-in-law.

A gentle levanter was wafting them through the Archipelago.

Such, in its greatest simplicity, is the procedure which, as will be seen, has provoked a very levanter of ire and vilification.