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  • Listening to (megan gale's): Hamish and Andy podcast highlights from today.

    Sydney is the New Melbourne +/- 8 Minutes. Ben Barren 2007

  • Some way along the road, wading blindly, with no sense of direction left to him in a snowfall that looked the same wherever he turned his face, but where the ground below him was still dimpled faintly with the furrows and pits of passage, he glimpsed in a momentary emptiness cleared by the gale's caprice, a black shadow flitting before him.

    The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982

  • Thus Juno pleaded; and all the heavenly people murmured in diverse consent; even as rising gusts murmur when caught in the forests, and eddy in blind moanings, betraying to sailors the gale's approach.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The wind ceased to clamor, and for a time the rain, relieved of the gale's force, fell straight in

    Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

  • Lightning flickers wildly and on Govardhana itself, the torn and shattered trees bespeak the gale's havoc.

    The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry W. G. Archer 1943

  • This problem and a fiercer one filled my mind, for my soul was as storm-beset as the hut, whose planking shook under the gale's force.

    Jacqueline of Golden River H. M. Egbert 1919

  • The casement shook and rattled under the gale's rough hand.

    The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

  • It relieved him as though that man had, by simply coming on deck, taken most of the gale's weight upon his shoulders.

    Typhoon, and other stories 1902

  • But it done Davy Junk no good that any man could see; for by fits he'd be bitter as salt, an 'by starts he'd be full o' whimpers an 'sighs as a gale's full o' wind, an 'between his fits an' his starts 'twas small rest that he had, I'm thinkin '.

    Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893

  • Open water -- in a shift o 'the ice -- was but half a league t' the nor'west, a bee-line into the gale's eye.

    Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893

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