stormwind
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stormwind (plural stormwinds)
- A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.
- 1635, John Swan, Speculum Mundi[1], Cambridge University Press, Chapter 5, Section 2, p. 177:
- Also know, that it is as possible to see the winde as the aire, their substances being too tenuous to be perceived; unlesse in a storm-winde, whose matter is an exhalation so thick that it darkens the aire:
- 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, New York: Samuel Colman, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 146,[2]
- […] the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff […]
- 1872, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, London: Macmillan, prefatory poem,[3]
- Without, the frost, the blinding snow,
- The storm-wind’s moody madness—
- Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow,
- And childhood’s nest of gladness.
- 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 8, in A Wizard of Earthsea, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 155:
- That spell of sea-safety which they set much store by in the Northern Archipelago never saved a man from storm-wind or storm-wave, but, cast by one who knows the local seas and the ways of a boat and the skills of the sailor, it weaves some daily safety about the fisherman.
- 1998, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings[4], New York: Bantam, published 1999, page 447:
- He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a stormwind.