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North wind   /nɔrθ wɪnd/   Listen
North wind

noun
1.
A wind that blows from the north.  Synonyms: boreas, norther, northerly.






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"North wind" Quotes from Famous Books



... as a harsh wind shakes Complaining reeds fringing a frozen river; His eye the aspect had of frozen lakes Whereunder the foiled waters swirl and quiver; His voice the deep note that the north wind takes Drawn through bare beechwoods where forlorn birds shiver— Deep and unfaltering. A younger man Listened, while warmer ...
— Poems New and Old • John Freeman

... don't care how hard it snows, Nor how Old Mr. North Wind blows, For I'm as safe as safe can be In a big warm hole ...
— Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers • David Cory

... buoy-bell's tolling When the north wind brings from afar The smooth, green, shining billows, To be churned into foam ...
— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes

... A keen north wind whistling through neighboring walnut tree tops, drove the dying leaves like frightened flocks before it, and ever and anon the ripened nuts pattered down, hiding themselves under the drift of yellow foliage, that ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... Asbjoernsen. Fairy world. Bay. Danish fairy and folk tales. Carroll and Brooks. Third reader. (Boy and the north wind.) ...
— Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours • Various


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