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There are whisperings on the night-winds and the shuddering stars have fled.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Beneath the stars, and the night-winds are flowing
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The creatures of the night whispered and called to one another, faint night-winds murmured through the leaves and now and then among the slightly waving branches could be glimpsed the gleam of a distant star.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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The creatures of the night whispered and called to one another, faint night-winds murmured through the leaves and now and then among the slightly waving branches could be glimpsed the gleam of a distant star.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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So the night-winds hurried him onward, and the darkness absorbed the outlines of the dear Dreamland coast.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Up and down that disordered garden he paced like a ghostly sentinel; the doves fluttered to and fro, and were dismayed; the night-winds came in from the chilly sea, and the dews gathered in his beard.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Then utter silence fell, except the unshod footfall of my bearers and a murmur as of night-winds in the trees.
Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock
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Was she the one who had departed, leaving the old king in his desolate house by the sea, where he could only think of her as he sat in his solitary chamber, with the night-winds howling round the shore outside?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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Ah, no! the lonely mourner was waking still, gazing up with sad, sad eyes at the starry heavens above, asking the night-winds as they moaned around:
Parables from Flowers Gertrude P. Dyer
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If she returned through the frosty night-winds, over the crisp, freezing snow, she would travel fourteen miles that day.
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