It could not be otherwise because of their exposure to wind and air on all sides.
Or evergreen branches can be used to keep the wind from blowing them away.
It has neither tendril nor disc, and supports itself by twisting its new growth about trees over which it clambers, branches--anything that it canwind about.
If Roses are planted where a cold wind from the east or north can blow over the bed, look out for trouble.
And now, while the cold wind began to creep underneath the awning and dry the sweat around their loins, Tristram had time to take stock of his companions, and even to ask a question or two of the slave that had spoken to him.
The wind apparently drowned his question; for Captain Salt started off without replying and led the way down across the sandbanks.
He was trying to stanch the flow when the chimes of a clock pealed down the wind from somewhere ahead and upon his right.
The wind and the night began to race by Tristram's ears as his horse leapt forward.
He looked up as his friend advanced; and Captain Jemmy was forced to regard the weathercock on the roof for a minute or so to make sure of the quarter in which the wind lay.
With a wild leap, in which his four legs seemed to meet under his belly, he pitched his master clean over the crupper and, as a wind through chaff, swept through the people at a gallop and off along the road towards the town.
If the wind holds we shall be within the Maese by Sunday morning.
So steady did the wind keep all day that about five in the evening they brought the English coast in sight.
In the silence the fog gathered till it seemed to bar the way like a regiment of white ghosts, wavering and closing its ranks as the wind stirred over the levels.
His firstwind was failing him, and his heart began to thump against his ribs.
At any rate, they heard only the water lapping in the dykes and the wind that howled over the wastes around.
The quick, salt wind whipping Richard in the face, gave him a sense of vigour and reserve strength, which was speedily nipped by a chilling realization of his hopeless captivity.
Once or twice he lost his bearings in the short journey, but a rising wind blew out trailing lengths of fog before him and, aided thus, in a little while he reached his goal.
Now, Betty, wind that while I find a blue for the flowers.
And Joscelyn's fibbing tongue said it was only the race she had run in the wind from her door.
The wind without howled like some hungry creature seeking its prey, and the white-fingered spirit of the snowstorm tapped weirdly at his window.
The wind shrieked in from the sea, edged with foam or stinging sand caught up at the water's edge, and the heavens were like a vast slaty canopy torn now and then by jagged lightning flashes.
With the coming of the dark the wind had risen and the garret was bitterly cold; but busy with plans for his escape and with thoughts of her, he scarcely noticed how stiff and numb his limbs were.
But it had not fluttered twice in the wind ere Betty had snatched it down.
Peter's voice had penetrated through the boards and their thin covering of sand, so that he knew the fog was following the wind from the sea.
The darkness, the soft mud, and the howling wind were all in his favour.
Wind your ball up closer that we may pass it through this loop.
Into the third it penetrated only a little way; but he did not notice, for the wind was again gathering itself for a fresh burst of fury.
The wind had fallen, but the waves still thundered on the shore, and the lightning now and then raced along the clouds.
A tall figure was entering the iron gateway--and that whisper ran like a wind through the mass, the whisper of a hated name.
A cold wind sprang up now and cutting through his thin clothes drove him in a lope toward his mother's home.
A slow wind was blowing up from the river toward him, and on it came faintly the long mellow blast of a horn.
When he opened it the fresh wind striking his warm body aroused him sharply.
XXIII But the sun of election day went down and a breath of relief passed like a south wind over the land.
The wind had greatly subsided, but the air was heated and close; while the clouds overhead, still agitated by the past storm, every now and then came down in thick small rain.
The knight remonstrated, but he might as well have talked to the wind itself.
The thunder had ceased, the wind was calmer, and the waves seemed less agitated.
While thus indulging waking visions, he thought he heard a distant horn, and listening, the same sound was again borne upon the wind from some part of the forest.
The next morning, however, the wind of Lady Katrine's humour seemed again to have changed; and at the hour appointed for her departure she tripped down to her horse all liveliness and gaiety.
And much loved is he of the commons, being no way proud, as some of our lords are, with their upturned noses, as if they scorned to wind their mother earth.
When the storm came up, the boat began to take in water, and the wind grew fiercer, as he doubled the beating of his wings.
The north wind continued, and the snow and the cold continued.
One day they were lying-to, when a wind began to blow from the north.
At last the windcame down, and the ice began at once to break up.
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven That rustle through the unquiet Heaven Unceasingly, from morn till even, Over the violets there that lie In myriad types of the human eye-- Over the lilies that wave And weep above a nameless grave!
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees That palpitate like the chill seas Around the misty Hebrides!
The rain came down upon my head Unsheltered--and the heavy wind Rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
But the night wind Is chilly--and these melancholy boughs Throw over all things a gloom.
Other automobiles were ahead of us, other cars were behind us, in the procession of Nomads leaving the South for the North, but there had been rain in the night, so that the wind carried little dust.
It was a pleasant run to St. Gilles, though there was a shrewish nip in the wind which made me hope that Lady Turnour's mind was not running ahead to the mountains and gorges in front of her, not far away by days or miles now.
So the change of programme was decided upon, and curious as to the chauffeur's motive, I questioned him when again we sat shoulder to shoulder, the salt wind flying past our faces.
We felt the swift whirr of its wings, which almost took our breath away, and made the Aigle quiver; but like a bull that meets its enemy with lowered horns, the brave car's bonnet seemed to defy the wind and face it squarely.
A day like this" meant that there was a wind which no one under fifty had any business to know came out of the east, for it arrived from a sky blue as a vast, inverted cup of turquoise.
A toque or a picture-hat make all the difference in the world to a woman's impressions, even of Paradise--if the wind be ever more than a lovely zephyr there.
Does he think I'm going to travel on a day like this with all the wind on the Riviera blowing my head off?
The wind roamed moaning among the tops of the tall cypresses, set close together to protect the meadows from one of "the three plagues of Provence.
Cold as the wind had grown, the thrill kept me warm, mingling in my veins with ozone.
The wind brought fairy perfumes, and lovely little green and golden puff-balls fell from the budding trees at our feet, as if they wanted to surprise us.
Wind these with cloth torn into strips, fastening the ends with needle and thread.
I listened, and heard nothing but the voice of the wind in the trees.
An icy wind swept in through the chinks here and there, in a roof that rose sharply on either side, after the fashion of attic roofs.
As the wind blows them to and fro it wafts the dust from one flower to another.
The right combination of wind and wave came at last, however, and drove her in toward the shore.
The tower swayed in thewind and at each crash they held their breath, thinking that the house had been struck.
Getting into a clear road, he opened the throttle and they proceeded like the wind for about six blocks.
Therefore, he gave his driver private instructions to drive like the wind with two girls who should be placed in the car, and under no condition to let them out of the car.
Howling like an imprisoned giant, the wind hurled itself against the side of the tower.
The waves roared and dashed on the cliff below, and a strong wind was blowing from the west.
Then the waves parted over her head and she felt the windblowing against her face.
There was a steel-bright sky, a low, yellow sun, and a brisk easterly wind from the heights of the Ural.
Wind and rain whirled and drove among the trees outside, but the sitting-room of the old farm-house was bright and warm.
Still, though there was a good deal of wind to be heard, he went on to explain that the cottage was, as I have already said, well sheltered on the cold sides, and also well and strongly built.
The wood was then left to season, and Ted could hardly wait patiently until sun and wind and rain had made his precious craft seaworthy.
Ted was the taller, but slim even in the furs which almost smothered him, leaving only his bright face exposed to the wind and weather.
Kalitan Tenas felt it more than he had in the long winter, for then it was still and calm as night, and now the wind was blowing straight in from the sea, and the river was frozen tight.
Kalitan, with a quick shrug of his shoulders, "quick grow, sun fade and wind blow down.
There is something in the sun and wind of Alaska which cures meat perfectly, and the bear's meat was strung on sticks and dried in the sun so that they might enjoy it for a long time.
And after a time the wind carried them to a beach where all was summer.
But the Snow Spirit answered not, only the windscreamed around the eglu, and his screams were terrible and sad.
He had his head and chest low, and all the wind taken out of him.
When asked what the fire was like he said that there had been a wind when the boom-golies passed, which reminded him of the monsoon when the tufân catches the pine trees in Dagshai.
There was a freezing wind and the wounded lay out in pools of rain and flooded marsh all night; some were drowned; others died of exposure.
Thither the strength of the west wind moistly blowing carried her amid soft foam over the wave of the resounding sea.
So spake he, and let raise the mast and hoist the mainsail, and the wind filled the sail, and they made taut the ropes all round.
Gaffer Bartram had seemed as much a part of their lives as the sun or the wind or the old pollard willow.
It is the only place that is sheltered from the wind and at the same time has sunshine and a good outlook.
A Biscay tempest caught them, and from dark to daylight they were buffeted by the giant battledores of wind and sea.
Some one may have got wind of her being here, or may be tempted by the reports of my hoard of gold.
Four unprotected girls could be taken in guarded litters to the sea- coast and shipped to Ireland or to Cadiz, Valencia, Alexandria or Morocco with no difficulty whatever unless some one got windof the fact.
The wind that blew from the eight-side cone-roofed kitchen brought to his nostrils a smell so delicious that he was drawn like a fish on a line to the gates of the abbey.
They stand taller than the tallest charger, and travel like the windon four feet.
His ways are as the wind that blows where it will.
With every sough of the trade-wind that blows across the sea I wake and wait and listen for the call of your hearts to me.
You may be glad that your men fear neither wind nor seas--nor you.
And so they bantered on and made pretty speeches, while Claude's car bucked the wind until they turned into President Street and stopped at the corner of her own block.
It was a warm spring day, and an agreeable wind from the bay blew upon them through the open windows as they crossed the East River.
But a straw showed Cornelia which way the wind was blowing.
Six hours on this course, and we make a fair wind of it.
The day was sufficiently advanced to allow a distinct view of all that was passing, and the wind had shifted.
The wind was so light, however, that Captain Truck gave it as his opinion they could not speak until night had set in.
If the wind stands six hours longer, I shall have the grief of parting with this good company, and you the grief of knowing you will never set another meal before them.
As the captain made this last remark, his quick eye saw that the wind had hauled so far round to the westward, as to supersede the necessity of tacking, and that they were actually going eight knots in a direct line from Portsmouth.
The wind had passed away like a bird, and a dark line to sea-ward, denoted the approach of the breeze from the ocean.
Near an hour was passed in effecting this point, which, as the sea and wind were both rising, could not probably have been effected in any other manner, half as soon, if at all.
One is a sweltering day in summer, and the other an autumnal day, in which the dry north wind scarce seems to leave any marrow in the bones.
They stacked their arms in the streets and public squares, and quietly waited in the snow, patiently bearing the bitter cold of the wind for several hours, while the magistrates were getting houses and food and clothing ready for them.
Unluckily, while the fleet was yet far from the mouth of the strait the wind failed entirely, and the gun-boats were helpless.
