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Sentences starting with winds

Winds had swept it clear of weathered shale, and rains had washed it free of dust. [13]

Sentences ending with winds

Henceforth the spot was sacred, and I am sure it stands there as when last I saw it twelve years ago, but worn away by rains and winds. [11]
The sudden appearance was even more startling than the strange canoe that crossed their track on Lake of the Winds. [11]
Mr. Watling climbs up on the platform and shakes his fist in General Doby's face, and General Doby tearfully appeals for an honest ballot--to the winds. [9]
But to return to the winds. [4]
We know all these winds. [4]
Our party descended the winding staircase in the tower, and walked on the shelf under the mighty ledge to the entrance of the Cave of the Winds. [4]
This point, and the opposite headland, the Capo di Sorrento, inclose the Piano di Sorrento, an irregular plain, three miles long, encircled by limestone hills, which protect it from the east and south winds. [4]
The barriers of the conventions were down, she had cast her pride to the winds. [9]
Its position was such that it caught the sun always, and was protected from the north and east winds. [11]
Under the Dred Scott decision "squatter sovereignty" squatted out of existence, tumbled down like temporary scaffolding; like the mould at the foundry, served through one blast, and fell back into loose sand; helped to carry an election, and then was kicked to the winds. [7]

Sentences containing winds two or more times

Of all voyages, that is the easiest to make which has no port in view, that depends upon the varying winds, if the winds happen to be soft and the chance harbors agreeable. [4]

More example sentences with the word winds in them

When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
After almost three years' experience, Winslow says, he can scarce distinguish New England from Old England, in respect of heat and cold, frost, snow, rain, winds, etc. [3]
We came along with good winds, having no check, though twice we sighted French sloops, which, however, seemed most concerned to leave us to ourselves. [11]
Yet even in winter it is not so bleak and bitter as the districts south-west of it, for the Chinook winds steal through from the Pacific and temper the fierceness of the frozen Rockies. [11]
Even the contrary winds would not have detained them so long, for they were abundantly supplied with rowers. [10]
Beyond, the road winds up the hill'around the end of Mr. Wiley's plantation and plunges shortly into the woods, gray and cold indeed to-day. [9]
Even the boisterous winds unanimously came forth from their mystic homes, and blustered about as if to enhance by their aid the wildness of the scene. [5]
Ask of the winds that far away with fragments strewed the sea. [5]
The sea, the winds of heaven, had aided others since the dawn of history. [9]
The sighing wintry winds complain, The singing bird has flown, --Hark! [6]
Then the hot winds come up from the Gulf, and sleet melts, and windows are opened. [9]
When the great winds and rains come down from the hills, do not let the floods drown us, nor the woods cover us, nor the snow-slide bury us; and do not let the prairie-fires burn us. [11]
F. No, he will not say so now, because his mouth, I trust, is hushed in death, and his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. [5]
It winds the whole thing up. [7]
An effete celebrity, who would never be heard of again in the great places until the funeral sermon waked up his memory for one parting spasm, finds himself in full flavor of renown a little farther back from the changing winds of the sea-coast. [6]
Could she say whither the winds might blow, where the seed might be planted? [9]
The south winds whistled through the woods, as the waters dashed against the banks, as rapid fire in the pent furnace roars. [5]
The assemblage rose, whiffed ceremony to the winds, and rushed for the door like a mob; overturning chairs, smashing crockery, tugging, struggling, shouldering, crowding--anything to get out before I should change my mind and puff the castle into the measureless dim vacancies of space. [5]
The dark spruces were tipped with glimmering lights; the aspens bent low in the winds, as waves in a tempest at sea; the forest of oaks tossed wildly and shone with gleams of fire. [13]
If New England were not mostly rock, these winds would carry it off; but they would bring it all back again, as happens with the sandy portions. [4]
Expecting high winds, we bring everything into close reef. [4]
Budget after budget was hurried by the winds across the sea. [9]
There was a voiceless interval of some duration now, in which no sounds were heard but the beating of the rain upon the panes, the sighing and complaining of the winds, and now and then a muffled sob from Roxana. [5]
Certain people impress us as the winds do. [4]
You may spade up the ocean as much as you like, and harrow it afterwards, if you can,--but the moon will still lead the tides, and the winds will form their surface. [6]
It was the unconscious tribute, too,--slight as was its exhibition,--of the man whose life has been spent in the conquest of material things to the man who has the audacity, insensate though it seem, to fling these to the winds in his search after ideals. [9]
It was a two-story log house situated on a small knoll in the midst of the vast basin or desert through which the sickly Carson winds its melancholy way. [5]
Did you ever try to have a sociable improving-time discussing winds, and currents and variations of compass with an undertaker? [5]
Ahead lay a treacherous sea, around them roaring winds, and the perilous coast of Jersey beyond all. [11]
His lamentable outcry told me that he needed help, and once more in my life I fulfilled my strange fate, which has ever been to cast to the winds that for which my soul most longed, for another to take it up. [10]
And it came to pass that I prayed unto the Lord; and after I had prayed, the winds did cease, and the storm did cease, and there was a great calm. [5]
I was ready to give up all, throw all my life, my career, to the winds, and prove myself loyal to that which was more than all; or I was willing to eliminate myself from the scene forever. [11]
When the outlaw tires of the game, he winds it up quick. [11]
Flinging caution to the winds, I did not even pretend to George that I was coming to see him on business. [9]
May heaven temper the winds to them, for they have been shorn very close, every one of them, of their golden fleece of aspirations and anticipations. [6]
Open patches where the sun gets in and goes to sleep, and the winds come so finely sifted that they are as soft as swan's down. [6]
Suppose that in the shock of discovery Jasmine should throw everything to the winds, and lose herself in arrant egotism once more! [11]
He thought of the present, and he wrote: "Wave walls to seaward, Storm-clouds to leeward, Beaten and blown by the winds of the West; Sail we encumbered Past isles unnumbered, But never to greet the green island of Rest. [11]
As if all the power of the winds were pushing and piling behind, it rolled ponderously across the sky. [13]
No rocks, across the pathway lie, --No fallen trunk is o'er it thrown, --And yet it winds, we know not why, And turns as if for tree or stone. [6]
It told of the little good Folk of the Scarlet Hills, in vague allusive phrases: their noiseless wanderings; their sojourning with the eagle, the wolf, and the deer; their triumph over the winds, the whirlpools, and the spirits of evil fame. [11]
At night in the cool winds the fever abated and she slept. [13]
The Head of the Apollinean Institute delivered himself of these judicious sentiments in that peculiar acid, penetrating tone, thickened with a nasal twang, which not rarely becomes hereditary after three or four generations raised upon east winds, salt fish, and large, white-bellied, pickled cucumbers. [6]
There are noises that we do not understand, --mysterious winds passing overhead, and rambling in the great galleries, tree-trunks grinding against each other, undefinable stirs and uneasinesses. [4]
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. [5]
He had noticed that one of those sudden fierce winds, called Southerly Busters, was sweeping down towards the craft, and would catch it when it came round sharp, as it must do. [11]
The peasants say that a cold wind blows in late spring because the oaks are budding, and really every spring cold winds do blow when the oak is budding. [2]
I am not sure but the south is the most powerful of the winds, because of its sweet persuasiveness. [4]
If the boats struck for Albemarle they would be in the doldrums all the way; and that means a watery perdition, with winds which are wholly crazy, and blow from all points of the compass at once and also perpendicularly. [5]
All tongues are spoken on my shores, but I have only one language: the winds taught me their vowels the crags and the sands schooled me in my rough or smooth consonants. [6]
We are not so barbaric here as you might think, for my dining-room, which lies beyond the hall, with jalousies or movable blinds, exposed to all the winds, is comfortable, even ornate. [11]
Our people are scattered to the four winds, and to hunt them up now. [10]
It has already scattered to the four winds many a well-considered plan of the wisest heads, and an Iras could never be more fatal to statecraft than just at the present moment, had not Fate already uttered the final verdict. [10]
As the ballad says: "Ask of the winds that far away With fragments strewed the sea! [5]
At last the river cleared, and for leagues they travelled to the north- west, and came at last to the Lake of the Winds. [11]
I suppose, from present appearances,--light winds and calms,--that we shall be two or three weeks at sea, yet--and I hope so--I am in no hurry to go to work. [5]
Raindrops silvered the pines, and the light winds shook them down on the road in a musical shower. [9]
I told her Percy couldn't abide winds, as he was threatened with a pulmonary affection, and then she said try St. Augustine. [5]
When the garden patches grew bare and brown, and the bleak winds from across the Mississippi swept over the common, untoward tidings came like water dripping from a roof, bit by bit. [9]
These winds, and others unnamed and more terrible, circle about New England. [4]
When love has once taken firm hold of a man in riper years, it runs and winds through his whole nature like one of his veins, and can only be destroyed with his life. [10]
Consequently an excursion on the water had seemed but a mild amusement; but to be his own master, and to fight thus untrammelled against the winds and waves was pleasure such as he had never before experienced. [10]
It was an old- fashioned winter, not one in which bare ground and sharp winds make life outdoors inhospitable. [11]
Not the sound of the rushing winds, nor the sight of the foam-crested billows; not the sense of the awful imprisoned force which was wrestling in the depths below me. [6]
But the cry of the poor is tossed about by many winds before it reaches the king's ear. [10]
There were fields of ripening yellow grain, of lusty young corn that grew almost as we watched it: the warm winds of evening were heavy with the acrid odours of fecundity. [9]
A generous bowl of punch always stood in the cool hall, through which the south winds swept from off the water, and fruit and sangaree and lemonade were on the table there. [9]
The winds alone, of all the elemental powers, have hitherto eluded my authority, and multitudes have perished by equinoctial tempests, which I found myself unable to prohibit or restrain. [6]
The viscous intelligence of a country-village is not easily stirred by the winds which ripple the fluent thought of great cities, but it holds every straw and entangles every insect that lights upon it. [6]
My chief wonder now is that its golden surface was not more troubled by the winds then brewing. [9]
He would mar nothing, scatter nothing to the winds, tread nothing in the dust but the burning passion, the fevered longing for her, which had fired his blood ever since that night when he had vanquished the raving Masdakite. [10]
That night and next day, light and baffling winds and but little progress. [5]
It is the nature of poetry to writhe itself along through the tangled growths of the vocabulary, as a snake winds through the grass, in sinuous, complex, and unexpected curves, which crack every joint that is not supple as india-rubber. [6]
Those who made merry there were soon to be driven and scattered before the winds of war; to die at Wilson's Creek, or Shiloh, or to be spared for heroes of the Wilderness. [9]
The hills are low, monotonous in form, and the stream winds through them, with many a pretty turn and "reach," with scarcely a ribbon of room to spare on either side. [4]
The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. [6]
As to the last point high winds have nothing to do with it, for it was not a windy day. [7]
He had never laid eyes upon her, and as he walked hither from his house he seemed to foresee a helpless little woman who, once he had called, would fling her Boston pride to the winds and dump her woes upon him. [9]
She emerged from it all the same woman who had flung her married life, her man, and her old world to the winds on the day that Krool had been driven into the street. [11]
It is utterly inaccessible, except in one place, where a bridle-path winds upward among the solid rocks to the old portcullis. [5]
Since then, down in the valley, I have wheat every summer; for the Chinook winds blow across the mountains and soften the bitter cold. [11]
For what did I come into this world if I am to be like a stake planted in a fence, and not like a tree visited by all the winds of heaven and the birds of the air? [4]
Fresh anxiety assailed him; for he remembered the prediction of men skilled in the changes of winds and waves. [10]
So he helped her to climb the little stair that winds to the top of the texas,--that sanctified roof where the pilot-house squats. [9]
In spite of her disillusionment, in spite of her newly acquired ability to see him as he was, enough love remained to scatter, when summoned, her pride to the winds. [9]
Was it the heat of April, with its desert winds, which had brought the transformation? [10]
But, even as he thought of them, he remembered David's own frank, fearless audacity in danger and difficulty, and he threw discretion to the winds. [11]
They may yet have to learn a lesson of their American cousins, for notwithstanding their compact and solid structure they go to pieces in the great winds just as ours do. [6]
Some deep ocean-current has been moving her on, strong, but silent,--yes, stronger than these noisy winds that puff our sails until they are swollen as the cheeks of jubilant cherubim. [6]
Yet, since they had left the Ottawa River, they had seen no human being, save in that strange canoe on Lake of the Winds. [11]
He, whom she had believed to be in safety, had gone straight into the hands of the pursuers; and with him caution and reflection were flown to the winds when passion held sway. [10]
At last he guessed it as a perfect pastoral-birds, reaping, deer, winds, sundials, cattle, shepherds, hunting. [11]
An air-plant will grow by feeding on the winds. [6]
A limpid torrent goes whistling down the glen, and toward the foot of it winds through a narrow cleft between lofty precipices and hurls itself over a succession of falls. [5]
Its face is full of winking eyes, when the scattering rain-drops first fall upon it, and it scowls back at the storm-cloud, as with knitted brows, when the winds are let loose. [6]
The tramp is forty-four miles, for the road winds out into the country a piece, and you will be marching five or six days. [5]
She felt sorry for him because he had loved her enough to fling to the winds his chances of wealth for her sake--a sufficient measure of the feelings of one of his nationality and caste. [9]
As the stars fly, have thy footsteps flown-- Deep is the well, drink, and be still once more; Till the pursuing winds, panting, have found thee And, defeated, sink still beside thee-- By the well and the etl tree. [11]
As the stars fly, have thy footsteps flown Deep is the well, drink, and be still once more; Till the pursuing winds panting have found thee And, defeated, sink still beside thee-- By the well and the Etl tree. [11]
Nevertheless, her anger flew to the winds when one day a messenger arrived bringing a little package from Italy and the master called her into the laboratory. [10]

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