218 examples of the wind of in sentences

Give me thy cup; that, joy-possessed, I may tear this azure cowl from my breast, The wise may deem me lost to shame, But no care have I for renown or name. Bring wine!how many a witless head By the wind of pride has with dust been spread!

And fall upon the way shall he who at swift rate Shall go. Inflated by the wind of pride, the bubble's head may shine; But soon its cap of rule shall fall, and merged in wine Shall go.

And all day long the Sybarite trudged on an even keel with only the wind of her way to flutter the gay awnings of the quarterdeck, while the waters sheared by her stem ran down her sides hissing resentment of this violation of their absolute tranquillity.

It has not strength to raise a vapour, or furnish out the wind of a tolerable bluster.

This wind of clouds resembled the wind of events.

We can almost see the shadows of the past escaping into the dim woods, or flitting over the boundless prairie, shivering at the fearful whistle, and seeking shelter from the wind of our darting.

Many a bitter storm the wind of rage Blasted this realm within those woful days, When the unnatural fights continued Between your kingly father and his sons.

Having gained the wind of the French, he came down upon them with violence; and throwing in their faces a great quantity of quicklime, which he purposely carried on board, he so blinded them, that they were disabled from defending themselves [m].

Wellesley Magazine, ~The Voice of the West Wind.~ The Wind of the East and the Wind of the North From the gates of the Sun and the Cold blow forth: They wander wide and they wander free, But never a word do they speak to me; I hear but the voice I know the best, Of my brother-in-blood the Wind of the West, And the word that the West Wind whispers me, Is a message, Heart of my heart, for thee.

A GRAVE DIVINE Is one that knows the burthen of his calling, and hath studied to make his shoulders sufficient; for which he hath not been hasty to launch forth of his port, the university, but expected the ballast of learning, and the wind of opportunity.

Our noisy years did indeed seem moments in the being of the eternal silence: and the wind, in the face of that great field of stationary blue, was as the wind of a butterfly's wing.

Rushes should be made for as long a distance as possible, due regard being had for the wind of the men and not to get beyond supporting distance of the other units.

He passed the mares like a red streak of light, his ears flagging back and his tail swept out straight behind by the wind of his gallop.

The wind of that running became a gale.

She knew, from having breathed it herself, the wind of health which blew about those other lives, bare and open to the view, as less artless lives were not.

Look at yon hazy light, here, in with the land, that is coming so fast down upon us, and then tell me whether it comes from the coast of America, or whether it comes from out of the stranger who has been so long running under our lee, but who has got, or is fast getting, the wind of us at last, and yet none here can say how, or why.

" "The man who is hit is nigher to danger than he who feels the wind of the ball.

And I wanted to hear the sailors pray at night each to his own god, and to feel the wind of the evening coolly arise when the sun went flaming away from that exotic river.

" "It is like the Revolution, the French, is it not?drifting on before the wind of Fate, this ship full of fire and all red-hot raging turbulence.

" The breath of the fierce flames scorched her cheek as she spoke, the wind of their roaring progress swept her hair.

Then she being caused to have a glancing look like that of Kandarpa when first descended to earth, corresponding therewith having her gracefully-curved creeper eyebrows sportively playing; with the network of the rays of light of her lips oscillated by the waves of the wind of her breath, like twigs moved in sport, as if beating off the bees eager to catch the perfume of heir lotus-face.

What bothers him a little is that the wind of their blows sometimes rips pines out of the opposite hill-sidesexplodes, as it were, a whole valley.

And, at any rate, Buck had legs of iron, and the wind of a locomotive, carrying Red all day, and willing to kick at anything which bothered him when night came.

It sometimes seems as if young people had no convictions, as if they drifted with the wind of newspaper suggestion.

He's standing there in front of the window, letting the wind of the night blow in his face!"

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