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- noun archaic, poetic A
whirlwind .
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Examples
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There is a fixity of grief which is more appalling than this whirlblast; the souls that are wedged in ice occupy a lower circle in the region of sorrow than those which are driven before the gale.
Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904
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But he'd scarce said it when a whirlblast came frae the fell and owerturn't iv'ry cock.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892
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Vast towers of sand, borne up by the whirlblast, rise vertically to the sky.
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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But now, how easily might these, dashing out on Lafayette, snatch off the Hereditary Representative; and roll away with him, after the manner of a whirlblast, whither they listed!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Far and wide, alas, like a brown-leaved Vallombrosa; which waits but one whirlblast of the
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
qms commented on the word whirlblast
To every question the girl asked
His answer unheard would hurl past.
She realized speed dating
Is no way of mating
And felt like a ship in a whirlblast.
October 13, 2017