Definitions
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- proper noun A stormy
northeasterly wind mentioned in the Bible (Acts 27:14); any rough wind or storm.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“In of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer — of whose works I possess the only copy extant — “it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.”
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There is a wind called Euroclydon: it would be one of the Eumenides; only they are women.
How Spring Came in New England Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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There is a wind called Euroclydon: it would be one of the Eumenides; only they are women.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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[27: 14] But not long after a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon, rushed against it, [27: 15] and the ship being caught and not being able to bear up against the wind, we gave up, and were borne along.
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'In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,' says an old writer -- of whose works I possess the only copy extant -- 'it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.'
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In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon, "says an old writer -- of whose works I possess the only copy extant --" it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier. "
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
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But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
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It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up
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Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.
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