But some on hands, and some on knees, And more by vines or roots of trees, From shelf to shelf untiring strained, And soon the windy summit gained.
Our inn, the Fonda Ingles, looked out on the square before the Cathedral, a windy spot, where the gusts from the mountains seized and tossed the men's long capes.
Windy weather is bad for him, too; and frost puts a set on him altogether.
BLOW ME TIGHT, is a very windyand common exclamation.
She was a lady who might have been between forty and fifty, who came walking into the house without ringing, one windy evening, in rubber boots, with which she had been making herself a path in the newly fallen snow.
The boatmen at Killarney call those waves which come on a windy day, crested with foam, "O'Donohue's White Horses.
I'd often heard religious ranters, And put them down as windy canters, But this old mother made me see The harm I done by being me, Being both strong and given to sin I 'tracted weaker vessels in.
Lamb of the sky come out of fold Wandering windy heavens cold.
A blast of windy rain lashed them as they crept into the car.
The statues were oddly distorted with icicles and snow; they looked very cold--especially the Cupid in the temple--a windy and forlorn white kiosk where a naked child suffered exile.
Before three years passed, he had shrunk up so much, that he could not walk abroad of a windy day without carrying weights in his pockets to keep him firm on the earth, which he once trod with the step of a giant.
Throth, I think he ought to put her in the windy at once, just to save trouble, and give the people room.
Having made these dispositions, he, at the head of about five of them, approached the house on the windy side, for the fiend possessed a coolness which enabled him to seize upon every possible advantage.
Of a windy day the thatch alone would be utterly useless, if there were no scollops to keep it firm.
The road winds about over windy uplands, ever rising nearer to the drifting clouds.
Hawkins' voice came softly to me above the crash of surf, the surge of waves and windy roar of trees as we neared the dock.
Another sort of pine shall bear a better fruit [2604] than you upon the heights of furrowed, windy Ida.
Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she draws her golden bow, rejoicing in the chase, and sends out grievous shafts.
When the goddess had so spoken, she soared up to windy heaven.
Wherein notwithstanding what injury is offered unto the Creation in this confinement of sex, and what disturbance unto Philosophy in the concession of windy conceptions, we shall not here declare.
And Sharnall, too, had he not almost grasped the Will-of-the-wisp when fate tripped him on that windy night?
The moment that she first saw him on the doorstep that windy autumn afternoon, when yellow leaves were flying, she recognised him for a prince.
Another that he turned over was a German he had once heard speak at a diggers' meeting--a windy braggart of a man, with a quaint impediment in his speech.
Behind Ned's windy bragging Mahony thought he discerned tokens of a fond, brotherly pride.
It had a queer way of dying to a sighing breath, and then gathering gradually into an ascending burst of windy melody.
The perch was perilous enough, but the lad had no fear of the windy height, or of the waves breaking against the pediment of the cliff.
Dry snow is also blown from the snowfields on windy days, interfering with the transparency of the air.
Those people had been living in the midst of real war for seven months; and to hear this windy giant lay out his imaginary campaigns and fairly swim in blood and spatter it all around, entertained them to the verge of the grave.
In cold weather the mushrooms are gathered at noon-day; if the weather is windy and it is possible to postpone gathering for another day this is done, as the litter can not be replaced satisfactorily in windy weather.
Although a cloudless day, it was windyin the park, and cold, the ruffled waters an intense blue.
With twining plants, on the other hand, the extremity spontaneously bends more than any other part; and this is of high importance for the ascent of the plant, as may be seen on a windy day.
As soon as the stems which had ascended the iron rods reached the summit and became free, they also became twisted; and this apparently occurred more quickly during windy than during calm weather.
Presently she remarked: 'It has seemed a bit windyto me.
Yet before he made a step Byrne heard a far-away honking of the wild geese, that musical discord carrying for uncounted miles through the windy air.
Leaving the fire he moved to a window, and stood looking out upon the windy twilight.
