It was held that he might possibly have got Wind of the matter while listening to the Doctor's discourse.

The rapidity with which this speck grew into a dense cloud, and spread itself in darkness over the heavens, as well as the increasing swell of the ocean before we felt the wind, soon convinced us he was right.

One heard the wind, and water splashed in the bilges.

Shalah hugged the starboard shore, and as the screen of the forest caught the wind it weakened and weakened till it died away, and we moved only with the ingoing tide.

Strong blew the wind; the cloud Hastened away.

But Gray Wolf was still alert, taking in the wind, and lifting her head whenever Kazan stopped to snuffle his chilled nose in the snow.

PROVIDENCE tempering the wind to the shorn lamb.

Driving west, he faced a wind laden with dust as dry as powder.

I climbed the hill above the Howe burn-head, keeping the wind on my right cheek as the girl had ordered.

Terrier plunged and threw the spray about, but the seas were short, as if something ahead broke the wind.

So God rewarded Jacob by giving him more light: by not leaving him to himself, and his own darkness and meanness, but opening his eyes to understand the wondrous things of God's law, and showing him how God's law is everlasting, righteous, not to be escaped by any man; how every action brings forth its appointed fruit; how those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.

He found on the height only a cutting wind, and little enlightenment as to the true course.

Once more, according to the "Shepherd's Calendar," "Chaff, leaves, thistle-down, or such light things whisking about and turning round foreshows tempestuous winds;" And Coles, in his introduction to the "Knowledge of Plants," informs us that, "If the down flieth off colt's-foot, dandelion, and thistles when there is no wind, it is a sign of rain.

She sniffed the chill wind, and held her head up to the rain, and all the while, in a clear childish voice, she was singing.

It was obvious that the vessels were setting down upon the ice, and that Daggett did not haul his wind a moment too soon.

By the violence of this tempest, we lost many of our vessels, but after the return of good weather, we collected the remains of our shattered fleet, and having a fair wind, we stood on to the westwards, and at length descried the coast of Estoitland, and arrived in a good and safe harbour.

The spirit thereupon raised a great wind, which blew the filth away, and made the place pure.

As it swept along, it sent its fierce winds crashing, and howling, and roaring, through the old forests, uprooting, hurling to the ground, and scattering everything that encountered its fury.

To give two instances: The jet of steam from Vesuvius, in the eruption of 1822, rose more than four miles into the air; the jet from the Souffriere of St. Vincent in the West Indies, in 1812, probably rose higher; certainly it met the N.E. trade-wind, for it poured down a layer of ashes, several inches thick, not only on St. Vincent itself, but on Barbadoes, eighty miles to windward, and therefore on all the sea between.

So she begged her husband to let her sisters come and stay with her, and her husband had them brought on a mighty wind.

By Dan'l's direction they turned to the left and followed the wind of the river for a mile or so until suddenly out of the darkness loomed a quaint little bungalow which the old German claimed to be his home.

I had long ago got and lost my second wind and whatever other winds there be, and was moving less by bodily strength than by sheer doggedness of spirit.

He moved across the room and closed the jalousies, and thus cut off the night wind and also the west view from the street.

Moreover, while a rapid superficial current is setting in (always, save in exceptionally violent easterly winds) through the Straits of Gibraltar, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, a deep undercurrent (together with variable side currents) is setting out through the Straits, from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.

On the north side of the mountains, in the shade, they suddenly encountered a cold wind which made them shiver and become unable to speak.