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  • "Far as I could tell, there's no envoy here from Montgren or South-wind, and the Suthyan residence is closed until the first day of fall."

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • He was proud of the work, and liked the new robe better; but being lazy, he wanted to save himself work, so he sent the South-wind to tell all the doe-deer and the cow-elk to come to him.

    Indian Why Stories 1915

  • Meanwhile the South-wind rose, and, with black wings

    Paradise Lost: The Eleventh Book 1909

  • He was proud of the work, and liked the new robe better; but being lazy, he wanted to save himself work, so he sent the South-wind to tell all the doe-deer and the cow-elk to come to him.

    Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903

  • O'er the plains and the forest-land breezed from the Islands of Summer the South-wind.

    The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

  • When the South-wind is blowing and your oarsmen are urging on your vessels, has the sucking-fish (Echeneis) fastened its bite upon them through the liquid waves?

    Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

  • Unto the steady South-wind, some one is spreading his sails.

    The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

  • Northern Africa, for the terrible South-wind, taken completely captive, had not force enough left to blow out a candle.

    Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Northern Africa, for the terrible South-wind, taken completely captive, had not force enough left to blow out a candle.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • a mountain, whence the fierce South-wind issues, whose blast raises the sands of the Nubian desert, and whirls them onward in overwhelming clouds.

    Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch 1831

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