seawinds

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He found a tiny farmhouse, sheltered from the seawinds by a rugged hillock; near at hand, a rocky gorge, through which tumbled a wild little stream, checked here and there by a rude dam; in one place turning the wheel of a mill, where the neighboring farmers brought corn to grind.

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
I have copied this bit from my brother's diary, because to me it has in it the whistle of angry seawinds and the stern resistance of man to the elements.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911