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  • With bellowing of storm-winds and crash of smoking

    CHAPTER 14 2010

  • Prepare yourselves for the storm-winds of condescension, selective editing, patronising disingenuous narrative and overwhelming bias.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • And she devised an ending of their voyage and stirred up storm-winds before them, by which they were caught and borne back to the rocky isle of Electra.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • In the darkness and the storm-winds I have travelled on this road, and when ill fortune has descended it is weathered in this cloak.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • In the darkness and the storm-winds I have travelled on this road, and when ill fortune has descended it is weathered in this cloak.

    Two More Poem Drafts 2005

  • Then, although they were not as expert as the villagers had been, they would look for the dye-fungi when time permitted, thus bringing back a bit of the prosperity that had left on the storm-winds.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • His hands still stung with abrasions from muscling Callinde's helm against storm-winds.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • It has been suggested that originally the harpies were nothing more than personifications of the swift storm-winds; and few of the old naturalists, credulous as they were, regarded them as real creatures, though this cannot be said of all.

    Bygone Beliefs 1969

  • Great gusts of wind came roaring through the pine-trees of the grove, rushed onwards, striking the sacred pile, shrieking and crying with many-sounding voices around the marble pillars, until the mighty Temple was as a great harp on which the storm-winds played a solemn requiem for the dead priest.

    Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

  • And she devised an ending of their voyage and stirred up storm-winds before them, by which they were caught and borne back to the rocky isle of Electra.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

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