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Examples
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The mizen'maft fek the fiiry of this fecond blaft, and was fiiapt fliort off, as the fbre*maft zbd boltfprit had been before.
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Thefe appearances for a confiderable time diverted the thoughts of the gentle captives; though as they felt, or fancied they felt, the tower that inclofed them rock its heavy parapet in the blaft, they ftiud* dered, and remembered they were pri - foners.
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Tip, a ram Towzie, rough, fliaggy Toom, empty Tout, the blaft of a horn or trumpet \ to blow a horn,
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Hovers the hour, when Juftice dread On Tyranny's devoted head Shall wing Deftr«£kion's bitter blaft.
The vales of Wever, a loco-descriptive poem John Gisborne 1797
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Why doft thou build the hall, fon of the winged days? thou lookeffc from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blaft of the defert comes; it howls in thy empty
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The dufky waves of the blaft fly over the fields cf grafs.
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The blaft of the north opens thy gates, O king, and f behold thee fitting on ir-ifi, dimly gleaming imaU thine arms.
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The unfrequent blaft came ruftlhig in the tops of Selama's groves.
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Thou anfwereft not from thy ruining blaft: and the foul of thy father is fad.
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The night is long, but his eyes are heavy; depart thou tattling blaft.
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