west-wind

Ionian sea I rowed my course, for above the plains unharvested, that fringe the coast of Sicily, the boisterous west-wind coursed, piping sweetest music in the sky.

The Phoenissae 2008

Ionian sea I rowed my course, for above the plains unharvested, that fringe the coast of Sicily, the boisterous west-wind coursed, piping sweetest music in the sky.

The Phoenissae 2008

There came on them a strong, clear west-wind by ordinance of Zeus and blew from heaven vehemently, that with all speed the ship might finish coursing over the briny water of the sea.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

    Swells to the warm west-wind, in gales of foison alighting;

Poems and Fragments 2006

    Swells to the warm west-wind, in gales of foison alighting;

Poems and Fragments 2006

Swells to the warm west-wind, in gales of foison alighting;

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

There came out the low west-wind singing to itself through the leaves, the drone of a late-carousing honey-bee, the lapping of the water on the shore, the song of the wood-thrush replete with the sweetness of its half-melody; and ever and anon the pensive cry of the whippoorwill fluted across the deepening silence that summoned all these murmurs into hearing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

There came on them a strong, clear west-wind by ordinance of Zeus and blew from heaven vehemently, that with all speed the ship might finish coursing over the briny water of the sea.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

My good friend the governor had no tendencies in the latter direction, and abundance of them in the former, and was consequently as wholesome and invigorating as the west-wind with a little spice of the north in it, brightening the dreary visages that encountered us as if he had carried a sunbeam in his hand.

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

He also became very learned in bird-lore, and knew an east-wind from a west-wind by its smell, and he could see the grass growing and hear the insects walking about inside the tree-trunks.

The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898