Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whirling blast of wind; a whirlwind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A whirling blast or wind.
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Examples
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Which rain could never bend, or whirl-blast shake,
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The tulip was shattered -- the whirl-blast had fled,
The Youth's Coronal Hannah Flagg Gould
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And, were this bitter whirl-blast fanged with flame,
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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And like a whirl-blast swept away with all his gallant men.
Narrative and Legendary Poems: Pennsylvania Pilgrim and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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And like a whirl-blast swept away with all his gallant men.
Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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And like a whirl-blast swept away with all his gallant men.
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Presently, I heard the rushing of a mighty wind, and as the whirl-blast swept over the desert, clouds of sand were driven before it, and I was lifted off my feet, and carried along the tide of dust as lightly as a leaf is whirled onward through the air.
The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I Susanna Moodie 1844
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Sometimes again a whirl-blast would sweep round a hill, or rush up from a narrow gorge, carrying round, in wild and fantastic gyrations, large masses of the apparently solid mist, giving thus to the scene such an appearance as would lead the spectator to suppose that some invisible being or beings, of stupendous power, were engaged in these fearful solitudes.
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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Which rain could never bend, or whirl-blast shake,
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Which rain could never bend, or whirl-blast shake,
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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