"West wind" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... engine plunged into trailing clouds of rain only to burst forth into sunshine again with exultant shrieks of untamed energy, and listening to it one might have fancied it a living thing with capability to snuff the glorious west wind, and eyes to reflect the cool green ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
... confident that with a good west wind he could navigate the little craft to the mainland. At any rate, he decided, it would be preferable to perish on the way than to remain indefinitely upon this evidently uncharted island to which no ships might ...
— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... before I left Quebec I went to the romantic falls of Lorette, about thirteen miles from the city. It was a beauteous day. I should have called it oppressively warm, but that the air was fanned by a cool west wind. The Indian summer had come at last; "the Sagamores of the tribes had lighted their council-fires" on the western prairies. What would we not give for such a season! It is the rekindling of summer, but without its heat—it is autumn in its glories, but ...
— The Englishwoman in America • Isabella Lucy Bird
... balloon that traversed the English channel was sent off at Sandwich, in Kent, on the 22nd of February, 1784. It was five feet in diameter, and was inflated with hydrogen gas. It rose rapidly, and was carried toward France by a north-west wind. Two hours and a half after it had been let off it was found in a field about nine miles from Lille. The balloon carried a letter, instructing the finder of the balloon to communicate with William Boys, Esq., Sandwich, and to state where and at ...
— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion
... word is not for me: The vision fades, and far and near The west wind stirs the grassy sea In whispers to ...
— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford
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