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North-wind, in the fable; which should first make an honest traveller throw off his cloak.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Little heed is taken of your prudish scruples or foul follies, where the screaming eagle chases his mate on the road of the mad North-wind; little care for _your_ pitiful perversions of health and truth into scurvy jests or still scurvier blushes, wherever life takes new form as life, ever begetting through the endless chain of being.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The North-wind swoops from the brooding Pole, and our ancients crash and roar;
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The North-wind swoops from the brooding Pole, and our ancients crash and roar;
Songs of a Sourdough 1916
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On the North-wind, on the West-wind, from the peak and from the plain;
Songs of a Sourdough 1916
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On the North-wind, on the West-wind, from the peak and from the plain;
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West-wind, but by Boreas, the cold, rough North-wind, and it happened that the time at which she became a flower was at that season when
The Enchanted Castle A Book of Fairy Tales from Flowerland Hartwell [Editor] James 1910
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Ascending, while the North-wind sleeps, oerspread
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Suddenly the lights and the perfumes and the stillness of the sky were overwhelmed, a fierce North-wind charged with storm and darkness burst roaring upon me.
Penguin Island 1909
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Ascending, while the North-wind sleeps, o'erspread
Milton John Cann Bailey 1897
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