"Boreas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tumidus, nubibus ille minax. 24 Inter utrumque fremunt inmani murmure venti: Nescit, cui domino pareat, unda maris. Nam modo purpureo vires capit Eurus ab ortu, Nunc Zephyrus sero vespere missus adest, 28 Nunc sicca gelidus Boreas bacchatur ab Arcto, Nunc Notus adversa proelia fronte gerit. Rector in incerto est nec quid fugiatve petatve Invenit: ambiguis ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... of the Clouds," 4,321 feet above the sea under the summit of Tahawus, the noblest mountain of the Adirondacks, 5,344 feet in height. About thirty miles below the junction it takes the waters of Boreas River, and in the southern part of Warren County, nine miles east of Lake George, the tribute of the Schroon. About fifteen miles north of Saratoga it receives the waters of the Sacandaga, then the streams ...
— The Hudson - Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention • Wallace Bruce
... dead silence in any assembly they say Hermes has joined the company, so when any prater joins some drinking party or social gathering of friends, all are silent, not wishing to give him a chance to break in, and if he uninvited begin to open his mouth, they all, "like before a storm at sea, when Boreas is blowing a gale round some headland," foreseeing tossing about and nausea, disperse. And so it is their destiny to find neither willing table-companions, nor messmates when they are travelling by ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch
... 'Tho' Boreas with his Blustring blasts Has tos't me to and fro, Yet by the handy work of God I'm here Inclos'd below And in this Silent Bay I lie With many of our Fleet Untill the Day that I Set Sail My Admiral ...
— Yorkshire Painted And Described • Gordon Home
... Rude Boreas' winds and Neptune's waves Have tossed me to and fro: By God's decree, you plainly see, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various
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