"Gusty" Quotes from Famous Books
... myself a pleasant house. Content was I to dwell in it— Its door was fast against the wind With all the gusty swell of it. ... — Fires of Driftwood • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... that strolling one gusty April morning down the Rue du Hasard with his nose in the wind looking for what might be picked up, he stopped to read a notice outside the door of a house on the left side of the street as you approach ... — Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... mountain solitudes o'ertaken As by some spell divine, Their cares drop from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty pine,'" ... — Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... afternoon, however, the mist thickened again, and the whole village shrunk again within it, like a turtle within its shell. The next morning dawned without its misty mask, but with it rose a gusty wind that commenced howling like a famished wolf. Alas! for the glories of the woods! As the rude gusts rushed from the slaty clouds, the rich leaves came fluttering upon them, blotting the air and ... — Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 • Various
... wide stairs a darkling way they found.— In all the house was heard no human sound. A chain-droop'd lamp was flickering by each door; The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound, Flutter'd in the besieging wind's uproar; And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor. 360 ... — Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats
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