weather-work

For that matter, weather-work is always a touchy business.

Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

Oh, Treyvan's group wasn't the only one doing weather-work today; Hydona had her lot working in the morning, but since they're much stronger, she had them working at a distance.

Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

This ability to deliberately create heat made mages very popular in cold climes and seasons, and some weather-work was based directly on that effect.

Elephant in the City 2010

For that matter, weather-work is always a touchy business.

Winds Of Fury Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Oh, Treyvan's group wasn't the only one doing weather-work today; Hydona had her lot working in the morning, but since they're much stronger, she had them working at a distance.

Winds Of Fury Lackey, Mercedes 1993

At this time, the people on board were employed in caulking and painting the weather-work, over-hauling the rigging, stowing the hold, and doing other necessary business; but my disorder, which was a bilious cholic, increased so much, that this day I was obliged to take to my bed; my first lieutenant also still continued very ill, and the purser was incapable of his duty.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784