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And through it all was that sense of rising, as if he had been caught in some mild but powerful updraught.

After some minutes it lifted, moved over the depression, bucking in the updraught, and drifted down.

Dawn preferred to fly into the wind, to use the updraught, and then angle in at my fist.

This time it was the heat blast rising from the ground like the updraught of some immense bonfire.

Cheekily he sat on an updraught and went through the contents of the hold-all.

Her hair, caught in a sudden updraught, swirled above her head like black flames.

With an updraught or wind shear we can go up or down a hundred feet in two seconds.

The man was huge: as high and wide as a door, with a cape that stretched out behind him in the updraught.

Before he could grab it, his peaked cap sailed up into the air and shot away on a tremendous updraught.

The village has the only updraught brick kiln known to have survived in Somerset.

These were superseded by more substantial updraught kilns which have been found right across the northern suburbs.

A moment later little Manuel's craft was lifted by a powerful updraught and tossed over the roof of the cloud.

Another stir of movement in the middle distance caught her eye: a free cloak, seemingly riding an updraught over a fixed point.

She was still dressed in her white funeral robes, which silently fluttered as if they were being blown by an updraught.

This provided the required updraught.

These are interpreted as the remains of bonfire or clamp-type kilns, together with a few more substantial updraught examples.

The air-floater crept out of the crater and hovered in the updraught, its bow pointing at their hiding place.

'Oh Christ, if they meet there'll be an updraught.'

The hawks and falcons sat hunched on their perches, lost in some inner world of stoop and updraught.

The tropical sun struck down on this open swathe and heated the unshielded earth, causing a vast updraught of air above the road.

The thapter lifted sharply on an updraught.

However, the Flying Knife simply caught an updraught, planed high, and hovered in sinister magnificence.

Instead, the desulphurised flue gases are expelled using the updraught from the existing cooling towers.

The suckerbird was now losing height more slowly; it had reached a warm updraught of air and drifted along in it.

The fireplace is a three-sided incombustible box containing a grate that allows an updraught and a controlled flue.

We left the updraft and were carried along with the others.

The way down to the top of that building was to follow the updraft first.

Give her a lift, just a little updraft from the heat.

Hands or even the forehead can also be used to create an updraft.

The updraft almost made me bang my head against the door frame.

The next was that his sons were floating in the updrafts.

"I'll go in low enough for our wake to feel like thermal updrafts from the ground."

She finally caught a mild updraft and her body lifted.

There seemed to be up- and downdrafts within the big updraft.

And that is when the warm moist Gulf air hit the updraft.

That will increase the air entering the fire and should strengthen the updraft.

There was a warm updraft coming off the land.

Birds are quite aware of this, and circle around to stay in the updraft a long time.

Not that there was much to be done against the force of such updrafts and downdrafts.

It was the big bird, playing with the updrafts.

It caught a good updraft and began to rise.

Within a few minutes, the aircraft began to be buffeted by updrafts.

As we approached the cliffs of the coast, I knew there would be updrafts.

A very few seagulls were working the updrafts on the cliffs.

Solar updraft could also have the advantage of generating far more local jobs.

The next moment, he seemed to be in the air, catching the updraft, beating steadily higher.

As it hovered into the updraft, I identified my first migrant.

If we didn't find an updraft we'd crash in the swamp.

The conveyance started to bounce as an updraft hit it.

The updraft took away the rancid smell of the crowd.