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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
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It would take a mighty powerful eastwind to permit upward chivaning.
Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
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The fountains of tears were dried up by the deadly eastwind of despair that was sweeping over me.
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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
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Graves, was eastwind on her skin, nausea to her gorge.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Graves, was eastwind on her skin, nausea to her gorge.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Graves, was eastwind on her skin, nausea to her gorge.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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