whole gale

Then I went to sleep, waking again at seven to find it blowing half a gale of wind, which rapidly increased to a whole gale.

No such haul had ever fallen to the lot of any one of them—and the stranger had taken it in a whole gale of wind!

An hour or more before dark the wind increased, and was blowing a whole gale.

What seamen style a “whole gale” seemed to be brewing when the “Nancy” tripped her anchor and shook out her sails.

The place it comes from must give out soon, unless a new trade wind's got fixed into a whole gale for this here ocean.