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  • When all things suffer like me, nailed down with sorrow, when to know nothing is to snake like a fungas through tissue you stand still, silvered, splattered, the eastwind vagrant around you, and around me

    Cees Nooteboom greenintegerblog 2008

  • It would take a mighty powerful eastwind to permit upward chivaning.

    Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

  • The fountains of tears were dried up by the deadly eastwind of despair that was sweeping over me.

    A slaveholder's daughter, 1900

  • He passes his winters in New York and his summers in the Nutter House, which threatens to prove a hard nut for the destructive gentleman with the scythe and the hour-glass, for the seaward gable has not yielded a clapboard to the eastwind these twenty years.

    The Story of a Bad Boy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

  • Graves, was eastwind on her skin, nausea to her gorge.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Graves, was eastwind on her skin, nausea to her gorge.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Graves, was eastwind on her skin, nausea to her gorge.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

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