east-wind

I've lived through east-wind driven fires more times than I care to recall.

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I've lived through east-wind driven fires more times than I care to recall.

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I remember Abraham's coming in; I _felt_, when through his life the east-wind went, withering it up within him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

The rags of his coat fluttered in the east-wind, which also whistled keenly round his almost rimless hat, and troubled his one eye.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 Various

The day, though it began brightly, had long been overcast, and the clouds now spat down a few spiteful drops upon us, besides that the east-wind was very chill; so we descended the winding tower-stair, and went next into the garden, one side of which is shut in by almost the only remaining portion of the old city-wall.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

_Critic_, and send you in return my thanks and New Year's greeting on the wings of this east-wind, which, I trust, is blowing softlier and warmlier on your good gray head than here, where it is rocking the elms and ilexes of my Isle of

How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence Mary Owens Crowther

English east-winds, which prevail from February till June, are greater nuisances than the east-wind of our own Atlantic coast, although they do not bring mist and storm, as with us, but some of the sunniest weather that England sees.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

He approaches; I snatch the rose and tear its petals in an angry shower, and then a dim east-wind pours in and scatters my dream like flakes of foam.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

We were by this time sufficiently Anglicized to reckon the morning a bright and sunny one; although the May sunshine was mingled with water, as it were, and distempered with a very bitter east-wind.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

Years afterwards, it may be, his memory is still haunted by some vindictive wretch whose cheeks were pale and hunger-pinched, whose rags fluttered in the east-wind, whose right arm was paralyzed and his left leg shrivelled into a mere nerveless stick, but whom he passed by remorselessly because an Englishman chose to say that the fellow's misery looked too perfect, was too artistically got up, to be genuine.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various