Whereas Monsieur Mistral looks as if he would grudge more than half an hour on an occupation so prosaic as eating.
Mr. Dane hadn't told me that they had met before, but Monsieur Mistral greeted him at once as an acquaintance, smiling one of his illuminating smiles.
Toqued and veiled, the mistral could crack its cheeks if it liked; it couldn't hurt mine, or do unseemly things to my hair.
All its surrounding orchards and gardens, screened from the shrewish Mistralby the shoulders of the Alpilles, and again by lines of tall cypress trees and netted, dry bamboos, had begun to bloom richly like the earlier gardens on the Riviera.
And yet we were in the heart of Mistral-land; not Mistral the east wind, but Mistral the poet of Provence, great enough to be worthy of the land he loves, great enough to carry on the glory of it to future generations.
It was too easy so see what Monsieur Mistral thought!
I am very sorry, madame, but the storm, the mistral will come very soon, and while the mistral lasts we cannot ride.
The mistral blows, and the roads of Oliolles are said to be so dangerous that my driver refuses to take me back to-night.
The mistral delayed her," muttered Benedetto; "I must be quick.
This mistral is the plague and the curse of the Mediterranean provinces of France.
Unless when the mistral blows, the open air is seldom or never unpleasant; and then wooden shutters are applied to the windward side of the houses.
But Mistral had no taste for Paris, either as a lion or a butt, and, after a few days' stay, we find him once more quietly at home at Maillane.
Marseilles had not always been so enthusiastic over Mistral and his fellows.
The Mistral it appears," said one pitiful punster, "has been incarnated in a poem.
What that battle was and what an extraordinary victory came of it must needs be told for the significance of Mistral in Provence to be properly understood.
Several suggestions were made for a name for this brotherhood, but presently Mistral announced that in an old folk-story he had collected at his birthplace, Maillane, he believed that he had found the word they were in search of.
The recorder never failed to indicate the mistral when it blew, and sometimes even to predict it by many hours.
The electrician knew that the mistral would blow before long, and, as it rarely blows for less than three days at a time, that rather rude wind, so dreaded by the Marseillaise, was doubly dreaded by him.
Even if Mistral writes his verses in true Provencal, he works as though everybody will read it and acknowledge his craftsmanship.
The mistralwas raging and kept me awake till morning.
A huge bonfire had been lit in the square, in front of the café where Mistral and his friend Zidore were having a party that night.
During the night, while the mistral is blowing and the house is creaking everywhere, the distant sea seems nearer than it is, its sound carried by the freshening wind, and gives us the impression of being in a boat's cabin.
I was familiar with her household routine; I knew that when Mistral had company, his mother wouldn't sit down at the table.
The howling mistral or tramontana makes the doors bang, the reeds scream, and a range of noises that make the great, natural clamour all around.
The mistral might just as well not have bothered for all the turning the windmills did.
Frédéric Mistral has worked on this poem for seven years, and it is six months since he wrote the last verse, but he won't release it yet.
The ruthless Mistral is now blowing, which is bad for work; but before real winter comes, we shall have some more fine weather, and in any case I hope to be able to add a few more studies to the series I now have in hand.
For the weather is always fine, and the Mistral itself makes no difference to it.
Unless the mistral ceased and the rain passed away, it would be impossible for the sports to be held.
The mistral was blowing, and it was bitterly cold.
I fancy that in the Roman times, when such places as Nismes, Avignon, and Arles were selected for habitation, the mistral was not felt, at least to the extent it is now.
There are no fogs such as we have at home, though what seemed to be the mistral produces an approach to them; but there are occasional cloudy days, and when the sun gets behind a cloud, the air is cold, sometimes keenly so.
Further, a very important advantage possessed by Pau is its distinguishing freedom from wind from apparently any quarter, while the malevolent circius, bise, and the mistral are never felt there.
The icy Tramontane wind is said to be only slightly felt, and that in the west and more exposed end of the town, while the mistral is only known as a high wind.
In the glory and colour of the sunset young Mistral thought he saw the splendid train; but soon the gorgeous vision died away, and the children stood gaping alone on the darkening highway--the Kings had passed behind the mountain.
In a charming chapter of his Memoirs Mistral tells us how on Epiphany Eve all the children of his countryside used to go out to meet the Kings, bearing cakes for the Magi, dried figs for their pages, and handfuls of hay for their horses.
Over the joyously-quivering sea the fierce mistral came rushing.
Outside, the mistralrose and raged in a whirl of glowing-copper plane-leaves.
I, also, was struck by the likeness between the two men and thought that Mistral might easily have passed for elder brother of his Scots confrère.
I am seated in a little room close to the window—and as I look out I first see the boughs of a gigantic sycamore through which the mistral is roaring with a noise like a gale at sea.
Mistral (author of Miréio), and one or two others.
He visited Frederick Mistralin his charming country home and noticed the similarity of physical type shared by the Provencal and himself.
The roar of the mistral has a wild wintry sound, and the hissing of the wood fire is also suggestive of the north: and then outside there are the unmistakable signs of the south and those fantastic unreal like hills.
I cannot judge the language of his Irish poetry, but it is so rich in poetical thought, when at its best, that it seems to me that if he were to write more he might become to modern Irish what Mistral was to modern Provençal.
The sea has receded three or four miles, and left it high and dry in the middle of bleak salt marshes, useless, dead and desolate, swept by the howling mistral and scorched by the blazing sun.
We had been standing all the time at the corner of the square, while the mistral whistled down the narrow street.
But he dreamed of none of the threads of Destiny weaving together that day and hour while the mistral blew fiercely around Villa Reine des Fees.
It is a volley of pebbles that the Mistral carries with it as a torrent does.
But straight in the midst of his path rise the towers of the fortress-palace, and Peter Obreri, its architect, knows in the world of spirits that they resist the Mistral yet.
The Mistral likes to make an uproar--it is his amusement, when he comes to Avignon from his mountain.
Mistral went to Paris and received the plaudits of the literary and artistic world of the capital.
Some localities are more subject to the mistral than others, though none admit that they have it to the least degree, and some places are more relaxing than others.
The same mistral sweeps the seas around Marseilles to-day, and works all sorts of disaster to small craft if they do not take shelter.
Maxime, though only thirty minutes away by boat, across the mouth of the Golfe, has not the penetrating mistral for a scourge.
It is the same whether it rains or shines, or whether the mistral blows or not.
On its highest peak the poetMistral has placed the retreat of the heroine Esteulle in his poem "Calandau.
When the mistral blows, these cattle of the Camargue, instead of turning their backs upon it, face it, calmly chewing their cud.
When the mistralblew it caught La Souleiade slantingly, above the roofs of the houses of Plassans, on the little plateau on which the house was built.
His breath caught by the wind, his hands pressed upon his heart to quiet its throbbing, he saw the train flying in the distance across the bare plain, a little train which the mistral seemed to sweep before it like a dry branch.
The mistral was raging there--a fierce squall which bent the secular cypresses like straws.
Why could not the mistral take them all up together and carry them off to some unknown land, where they might be happy?
I wish I could do justice to the Midi, but evenMistral could not do that.
George Meredith, writing to Janet Ross in 1861, said: "Mistral I have read.
A Mistral anniversary is celebrated like a Declaration of Independence or a Louisiana Purchase.
Besides the pictures of Mistral the cards were mostly of ruins--which we expected, perhaps, but not of such ruins.
I believe Mistral does not sing in these later days.
A park adjoins the church and we went into it, but the mistral wind was tearing through the trees and we crossed and descended by a long flight to the narrow streets.
To the Provence Mistral is a god--an Apollo--the "central sun from which other Provencal singers are as diverging rays.
Provencal women talk with a new grace because Mistral has sung of them.
Then he told us that Mistral had appointed him as one of those who were commissioned to preserve in its purity the Provencal tongue.
I have forgotten whether it was the mistral or the tramontane, and I do not think it matters.
It is said, however, that the mistral wind is not always agreeable in Avignon.
Mistral has celebrated the cloister portal in a poem, and that alone would make it sacred to the Provence.
He wrote to Mistral on the subject, after the visit which the latter paid him in the spring of 1908: the only visit of the kind.
Let us, then, the latest of many, make the pilgrimage which all those who are fascinated by the enigma of nature will accomplish later, with the same piety that has led so many and so fervent admirers to the dwelling of Mistral at Maillane.
The Gulf of Lyons and the mistralform an irresistible combination of forces once they get together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mistral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: easterly; mistral; norther; storm; westerly
