Citations:tiffoon

English citations of tiffoon

• 1842, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 607:

  supercargoes there , a tiffoon came on , which had very near demolished us . " At four in the afternoon our best bower cable parted , and the ship cast in shore , but by setting all the sail I could , I just weared her clear of the land […]

• 1773, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 332:

  ON our arrival on the coaft of China , off Macao * , on July 17 , after my packet was delivered to the Supercargoes there , a tiffoon came on which had very near demolished us . At four in the afternoon our best bower cable parted […]

• 1820, Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, page 139:

  ... more to be dreaded from the sudden- ness of their attack , than from their magnitude , or their duration . In the storms of life , those that are foreseen are half overcome , but the tiffoon is a just cause of alarm to the helmsman […]

• 1783, R. Macpherson, A Dissertation on the Preservative from Drowning; and Swimmer's Assistant. A New Invention, ... Together with an Useful Account of Losses of Lives by Water. By R. Macpherson, Gent, page 81:

  Same year , in a tiffoon or hurricane , upwards of 150,000 Chinese perifhed in the river Canton . When the exprefs packet , with the mail Anno from England for France , was off Calais , 1773 the wind blew fo into the harbour , that the […]

• (Can we date this quote?), 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 216:

  tremendous , such as if he had not seen he could never have believed possible , although he had before been in a tiffoon , but that he thought the ale was very different at the distance of a few miles . That the commanders did not […]