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139,697. Where has the wind gone? Global Stilling is blamed as wind speeds drop across Europe cutting green energy production - threatening to drive up energy prices even further. Daily Mail online article 2021
5,472. Not bound to swear allegiance to any master,
Wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. (Freedom & Swear & Master & Wind & Travel) Horace, Epistles
51,603. ’Tis the hard great weather
Breeds hard English men. (Weather & Wind) Charles Kingsley, Ode to the North-East Wind 1858
51,604. Come; and strong within us
Stir the Vikings’ blood;
Bracing brain and sinew;
Blow, thou wind of God. (Weather & Wind) ibid.
51,900. These katabatic winds are stronger than any hurricane. They are the coldest and the most ferocious on the planet. (Animals & Antarctica & Wind) David Attenborough, Frozen Planet II: Spring
63,569. This is a landscape entirely sculpted by wind. (Arab & Wind) Wild Arabia I: Sand, Wind and Stars BBC 2013
77,112. The wind is playing strange tricks. (Antarctic & Wind) Scott of the Antarctic 1948 starring John Mills & Christopher Lee & Diana Churchill & Harold Warrender & Anne Firth & Derek Bond & Reginald Beckwith & James Robertson Justice & Kenneth More & Sam Kydd et al, director Charles Frend, music Ralph Vaughan Williams
93,321. Rough wind, the moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main, —
Wail, for the world's wrong! Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Dirge 1821
93,306. O Wild West Wind, though breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing ...
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,
Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams ...
The triumph of the prophecy! O, Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind. (Wind & Seasons & Autumn & Summer & Spring & Winter & Mediterranean) Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, Ode to the West Wind
93,307. How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man? ...
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind. (Wind & Answer) Bob Dylan, Blowin’ in the Wind 1962
93,308. And the wind shall say: ‘Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.’ T S Eliot, The Rock 1934
93,309. The winds come to me from the fields of sleep. William Wordsworth, Ode, Intimations of Immortality 1807
93,310. The wind’s in the east ... I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. Chares Dickens, Bleak House, My Jarndyce
93,311. The wind is indeed a useful element all over this world. One thing is certain: when all the reserve of fuel like coal and oil have been used up there’ll still be the wind. You see the wind that blows around this planet remains largely untapped. A huge and constant source of energy for a power-hungry world. Professor David Bellamy
87,453. A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and rustling sail
And bends the gallant mast. (Sailor & Sea & Wind) Allan Cunningham, A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 1825
54,271. Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude. William Shakespeare, As You Like It II vii 175-177, Amiens singing
93,312. And the wind cries Mary. Jimi Hendrix, The Wind Cries Mary
93,313. Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little ones, while my pretty one, sleeps. Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess
93,314. Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings ever by their accents alone. John Muir
76,032. Harnessing the wind had secured the lowlands. And wind was about to propel Holland’s trading ambitions. Both the British and the Dutch had made contact with the East Indies, and in 1602 the Dutch East Indies Company was formed to harvest the treasure of the world. (Holland & Netherlands) Ronald Top, The Industrial Revelations: European Story: Reaping the Whirlwind
29,035. The Weathermen took their name from the Bob Dylan lyric: You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. (United States of America & Revolution & Terrorism & Bomb & Name & Wind) Green & Siegel, The Weather Underground 2002
87,454. But the standing toast that pleased the most
Was – the wind that blows, the ship that goes,
And the lass that loves a sailor! (Sailor & Ship & Wind & Lass) Charles Dibdin, The Lass that Loves a Sailor 1811
93,315. They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7
93,316. And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the portals of the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind. Enoch 2:60:12
93,317. The wind bloweth where it liseth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and wither it goeth. John 3:8
93,318. A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. George R R Martin, A Game of Thrones
93,319. Nature, with equal mind,
Sees all her sons at play
Sees man control the wind,
The wind sweep man away. Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna I ii
93,320. There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. Raymond Chandler, Red Wind 1938
93,322. I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Day of Sunshine
93,323. Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
Has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the opening year,
I listen, and it cheers me long. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Woods in Winter
93,324. While rocking winds are piping loud. John Milton, Il Penseroso l126
93,325. When the gust hath blown his fill,
Ending on the rustling leaves,
With minute drops from off the eaves. ibid. l128
93,354. In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago. (Winter & Snow & Wind) Christina Rossetti, Mid-Winter 1875
94,690. ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun. (Wind & Storm) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights