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- verb Present participle of
wuther .
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Examples
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This pair neither heard the long 'wuthering' rush, nor saw the white burden it drifted: each seemed conscious but of one thing - the presence of the other.
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It was pouring down in torrents and the wind was "wuthering" round the corners and in the chimneys of the huge old house.
The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 1911
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It was pouring down in torrents and the wind was "wuthering" round the corners and in the chimneys of the huge old house.
The Secret Garden 1911
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It was pouring down in torrents and the wind was "wuthering" round the corners and in the chimneys of the huge old house.
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling, "wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
Wuthering Heights 1847
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‘Borrascoso’ is a normal Spanish word for stormy, so at a time when the book was set in university exams I received several compositions using ‘wuthering’ to describe the weather: It was a wuthering day or The weather became wuthering.
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Has there ever been a good version of wuthering heights either
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‘Borrascoso’ is a normal Spanish word for stormy, so at a time when the book was set in university exams I received several compositions using ‘wuthering’ to describe the weather: It was a wuthering day or The weather became wuthering.
Tens and dozens 2010
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‘Borrascoso’ is a normal Spanish word for stormy, so at a time when the book was set in university exams I received several compositions using ‘wuthering’ to describe the weather: It was a wuthering day or The weather became wuthering.
Tens and dozens 2010
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Last night, after Chinese leftovers, we ventured out into the wuthering evening, because I couldn't stand to be shut up in the house with all that wind pressing in at the walls.
"She had no heart so hardened, all under the boughs unbowed." crk_blog_vault 2008
victoriapl commented on the word wuthering
"Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling. 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather."
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
December 2, 2007
victoriapl commented on the word wuthering
"But you never know what the weather will do in Yorkshire, particularly in the springtime. She was awakened in the night by the sound of rain beating with heavy drops against her window. It was pouring down in torrents and the wind was 'wuthering' round the corners and in the chimneys of the huge old house."
The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
December 3, 2007
agustinolvera commented on the word wuthering
"When I moved wuthering heights to the counter, Edward raised one eyebrow." Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer page19
October 4, 2010