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  • noun Plural form of mistral.

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Examples

  • Consider the endless nauseating mistrals wherein the singers harp on their presumed wretchedness, e.g.

    A Week To Go Steven Barnes 2009

  • Consider the endless nauseating mistrals wherein the singers harp on their presumed wretchedness, e.g.

    A Week To Go Steven Barnes 2009

  • And I shiver within my suit as mistrals play across a silver sea

    Archive 2006-06-01 Bob Lock 2006

  • And I shiver within my suit as mistrals play across a silver sea

    Spaced out poetry Bob Lock 2006

  • They could hear those freed siroccos and emancipated mistrals blustering and raging overhead, but they did not blow down into the olivine depression to roil the serene waters.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • And now the northerlies rising fierce, equatorial, the madman's wind, the mistrals of prophecy, guiding me into the bay.

    The Reign of Istar Weis, Margaret 1992

  • Mr. Duncan, understanding perhaps something of the storekeeper's embarrassment, proceeded to take down his treasures: first editions from the shelves, and folios and mistrals from drawers in a great iron safe in one corner and laid them on the mahogany desk.

    Coniston — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • Mr. Duncan, understanding perhaps something of the storekeeper's embarrassment, proceeded to take down his treasures: first editions from the shelves, and folios and mistrals from drawers in a great iron safe in one corner and laid them on the mahogany desk.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Mr. Duncan, understanding perhaps something of the storekeeper's embarrassment, proceeded to take down his treasures: first editions from the shelves, and folios and mistrals from drawers in a great iron safe in one corner and laid them on the mahogany desk.

    Coniston — Volume 02 Winston Churchill 1909

  • And three days later Lory de Vasselot stood on the deck of a small trading steamer that rolled sideways into Calvi Bay, on the shoulder, as it were, of one of those March mistrals which serve as the last kick of the dying winter.

    The Isle of Unrest Henry Seton Merriman 1882

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