night-wind

While the night-wind to their coming, like a thund'rous herald sweeps;

Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

It was dark by the time they entered the avenue of Ravenswood Castle, a long straight line leading directly to the front of the house, flanked with huge elm-trees, which sighed to the night-wind, as if they compassionated the heir of their ancient proprietors, who now returned to their shades in the society, and almost in the retinue, of their new master.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Bared your face in the starlight, curious the scene, cool blew the moderate night-wind

Archive 2007-02-01 Bardiac 2007

“But the moon, and the dew, and the night-wind, they are just like a caller kail-blade laid on my brow; and whiles I think the moon just shines on purpose to pleasure me, when naebody sees her but mysell.”

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

He heard the sighing of the night-wind, the whisper of the leaves, the faraway roaring of a lion, but naught else.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

The watchful night-wind, as it went Creeping along from tent to tent,

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

The shadows seemed to grow more sombre, then, & the stillness more solemn, & the whispering foliage more spiritual, & the mysterious murmur of the night-wind more freighted with the moaning of shrouded wanderers from the tombs.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The shadows seemed to grow more sombre, then, & the stillness more solemn, & the whispering foliage more spiritual, & the mysterious murmur of the night-wind more freighted with the moaning of shrouded wanderers from the tombs.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The heavy sound sunk on the night-wind down the woody glen, and was answered by the echoes of its banks.

Waverley 2004

It was a dark night, with the glimmer of the stars only, and a melancholy night-wind was soughing through the scattered woods that spread around.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004