gusty

• For the two next days, it was fine and very cold, with a high, easterly wind; two days warm and pleasant; then succeeded a sharp frost and bright sun; and December closed, dull, cold, and dark January began cold, sharp, and gusty--some days biting, and some black and foggy; and from the 5th to the 12th it blew a perfect hurricane, with thunder, one fine day intervening, and occasionally a few bright hours in the course of some of the days. —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• The night was cold and gusty, and the wind right in his teeth. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)
• It was a wretched day, gusty, and the rain sweeping round the corners of the old streets. —  The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia
• The sea-wind was still warm and gusty, and the waves in the Grand Canal beat against the marble feet of its palaces At last she found her way through narrow passages, past hidden and historic buildings, to the back of the palace on the Grand Canal in which their rooms were. —  The Marriage of William Ashe
• His ordinary voice was hoarse and gusty, and his smile diabolical. —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

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