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- noun Plural form of
winde .
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Examples
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But first, for the Winde; you are to take notice that of the windes the South winde is said to be best.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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It is each life that windes the thread of time into this fine tapestry.
My Heritage Gumbo Lily 2007
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Midde [windes?] or waters stream do require to be writ.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Midde [windes?] or waters stream do require to be writ.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Thei worship also the Mone, the planet Venus, the fyre, the earthe, the water, and the windes.
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There bee also such mightie tempestes of colde windes, that sometimes men are not able to sitte on horsebacke.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Suche stronge windes sometime, that it staieth horse and man, and bloweth of the rider: teareth vp trees by the rootes, and doeth muche harme.
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Most worthy Ladies, I have alwayes heard, as well by the sayings of the judecious, as also by mine owne observation and reading, that the impetuous and violent windes of envy, do sildome blow turbulently, but on the highest Towers and tops of the trees most eminently advanced.
The Decameron 2004
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They haue twoo Sommers, softe pimpelyng windes, a milde aier, a rancke soile, and abundaunce of watre.
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But afterwarde the earth beyng more parched by the heate of the Sonne, and the drouthe of the windes, ceased to bring furthe any mo greate beastes: and those that ware already brought furthe, (saie thei) mainteined, and encreased by mutualle engendrure, the varietie, and nombre.
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