41 Verbs to Use for the Word gusts

Suddenly, without reason, he felt a gust of rage.

A shift of wind blew a gust of dry snow against the window-pane with a little sleety noise.

Oh, my!" Ford and Frank brought a fresh gust of enthusiasm with them, and they had Dick and his eels up from the grass in short order.

Born in 1512, he could not indeed have done so; but there breathes through his description a gust of enthusiasm, an afflatus of concurrent witnesses to its surpassing grandeur.

" There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips.

The stringed lamps wove a wavering luminous ribbon without end; a breeze laden with the wet fragrance of London drove great gusts of rain in stringing showers through the broken window.

Old Win-ter is blow-ing his gusts a-long, And mer-ri-ly shak-ing the tree: From morn-ing to night he will sing us his song, Now moan-ing and short, now bold-ly and long; His voice it is loud, for his lungs are so strong, And a mer-ry old fel-low is he.

Here it grows in dense sods, like grasses, from forty to eighty feet high, bending all together to the breeze and whirling in eddying gusts more lithely than any other tree in the woods.

On the 9th and 11th of September, we encountered some short gusts of the vamperos, the most violent being the last.

"Now, a few minutes later, to see another ship not three miles away, reduced to a piteous mass of unrecognizability, wreathed in black fumes from which flared out angry gusts of fire like Vesuvius in eruption, as an unending stream of hundred-pound shells burst on board it, just pointed the moral and showed us what might have been.

The sun rolled in a cloudy swoon Dimly, and over the rolling deep Gust followed gust with shadowy sweep; And waves that streamed their snowy locks Were tossing high against the rocks Seaward, while round the sands ebbed wide Scrambled the fierce devouring tide

It was a dark, gloomy, autumnal evening, and the stiff north-easterly breeze which came to us in freshening gusts over the snow-whitened crest of the Stanavoi range had a keen edge, suggestive of approaching winter.

I heard gusts of laughter from the truck-load of men looking down on the Philosopher.

Villon, protruding his lips, imitated the gust with something between a whistle and a groan.

Loog ad 'im!" cried the widow, with a sudden short laugh, that brought the tears after it like a wind-gust in a rose-tree.

The whole vegetable tribe have lost their gust with me.

As he pushes it open a gust of wind blows out the light, and here he stood in the darkness, eager to be doing, yet knowing not which way to turn or how to act.

What was the meaning of the poor fool's diabolical rebellion, the dim threat which she had felt passing like a gust from an abyss?

While admiring this phenomenon, a cloud gathered suddenly in the west, and, in a few minutes, poured forth a gust of wind towards the east, attended with heavy rain.

The air had the unnatural and heated appearance which precedes a gust; but, with the exception of a few large drops, that fell seemingly from a clear sky, it was as yet what is called a dry squall.

The rain was already falling rapidly and Sir Julian opined that it was a hopeful sign, as it presaged no sudden gust that would tear things to pieces.

The last order, grotesque in its urban familiarity, produced a gust of anger.

There is a Latin maxim which his Majesty cited at the banquet last nightEtiam aconito inest remediumand which may be freely rendered by our homely saying, that 'It is an ill wind that bloweth nobody good luck;' and this hath proved true with Sir Jocelyn Mounchenseyfor the gust that hath wrecked your father hath driven him into port, where he now rides securely in the sunshine of the King's favour.

Her temper, never very soothing or placable, got entire possession of her life, and she rained stormy gusts of passion on her guilty lord.

The wind started at about mid-day on Friday, and increasing in violence reached an average of 60 miles for one hour on Saturday, the gusts at this time exceeding 70 m.p.h.

41 Verbs to Use for the Word  gusts