"South wind" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... celebrate the joyousness of the New England winter. Perhaps I could if I more thoroughly believed in it. But skepticism comes in with the south wind. When that begins to blow, one feels the foundations of his belief breaking up. This is only another way of saying that it is more difficult, if it be not impossible, to freeze out orthodoxy, or any fixed notion, ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... the north wind is cold because it carries, or rather consists of, air from the polar regions; and the same effect is produced by the south wind in the ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien
... break it. Weakening at each oar stroke, they at last saw the south shore of Lake Erie rise on the sky line; but before the close-muffled refugees had dared to hope for safety on the American side, a strong south wind had sprung up that drove the boat back across the lake towards Grand River. To remain exposed longer meant certain death. They landed, were mistaken for smugglers, and thrown into jail, where Lount was at ...
— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut
... we had a south wind. That does not seem very terrible, but a south wind on the shore of the Great Salt Lake ...
— A Bird-Lover in the West • Olive Thorne Miller
... eager, fascinated, before the glass; and in the presence of the tall flowers and the tall birds, saw something which stirred her, felt something which came in at the window out of the blue sky and from the red rose blossoms, on the warm south wind. Impulsively she flung out her arms to the figure in the glass. Perhaps she felt its beauty and its friendliness. And yet, an instant later, her arms relaxed and sank; she sighed, ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough
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