92 Metaphors for wind

The wind became a hurricane.

We too need to fix it in our hearts, that the powers of nature are the powers of God; that he orders them by his providence to do what he will, and when and where he will; that, as the Psalmist says, the winds are his messengers and the flames of fire his ministers.

Wind is air in a hurry.

I have shivered on the frozen mountains of the icy north, and fainted beneath the sultry skies of the blazing east: the swift winds have been my viewless chariot, and on their careering wings I have been hurried from clime to clime.

A fore-wind is the substance of his creed, and fresh water the burden of his prayers.

But, more than that, the wind was now a grim peril, for, from time to time, it swerved and leaped on him heavily from the side.

The knotted thread which breaks if pulled too impatiently; the dropped stitches that make rough, uneven places in the pattern; the sail which was wrongly placed and will not propel the boat; the pile of withered leaves which was not removed, and which the wind scattered over the garden,are not all these concrete moral lessons in patience, accuracy, and carefulness?

The hurricane had ripped off the boarding about the bell, and the wind itself was the bell-ringer.

The wind was like a voice saying over and over again: "Failure."

THE BAND OF GIDEON The band of Gideon roam the sky, The howling wind is their war-cry, The thunder's roll is their trump's peal, And the lightning's flash their vengeful steel.

I kep' on runnin', but my wind was givin' out, and I knew I couldn't stan' it much longer; so I made a break for a good sized white birch I see, and the way I shinned up thet tree, would a bin a credit to any major-gen'ral, I tell yer.

Between Clarence Straits and Cambridge Gulf, and during the months of September, October, November, and December, the wind during the day is a seabreeze between North-West and West.

Behind that was wind, a summer gale, the black squall dreaded by the Siwashes.

day wee went aboord and set saile, the wind being very calme wee toed the ship all that day, and toward Sunne set, the castle sent a Fragatta vnto us to giue vs warning of three Foistes comming after vs, for whose comming wee prepared and watched all night, but they came not.

He breathed Guppy's London particular, the wind was the black easter that pierced the diaphragm of Scrooge's clerk.

The wind failing in the afternoon, it was evening when we reached our anchorage in nine fathoms, Cape Hotham bearing South 43 West, two miles and a half, and close to the edge of a large shoal which we subsequently found to extend a mile and a half north, and six miles east from the Cape.

On the splendid asphalt surface of the road there was no vibration, but a north-east wind across the sand-dunes is no trifle, and I was grateful when we turned south-eastwards at Blankenberghe, and I could breathe again.

The wind is up: hark!

"The wind," was the impatient response.

Where she stood was the edge of the light,before her feet lay a line of shadow slowly darkening out of daylight into twilight, and beyond into that measureless blackness of night; and the wind in her face was like that which comes from a great depth below of either sea or land,the sweep of the current which moves a vast atmosphere in which there is nothing to break its force.

It was a mild, serene, midsummer's night,the sky was without a cloud,the winds were whist.

"It is the wind in the deep gorges," said Tayoga, "but the winds themselves are spirits and the mountains too are spirits.

The fresh wind off the river was like the breath of life, and Pedro's face, thrust close to mine, no longer grew large and small by fits.

"A good wind, then, for the Sturdy Beggar," was the reply, as the fisherman clasped his hands behind his neck with a peculiar gesture.

Every Wind here is a Tempest, and every Water a turbulent Ocean.

92 Metaphors for  wind