north-wind

Though there was sand under their feet, they seemed out of place in the sharp north-wind and among the hills of fir and pine.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

Sometimes I have thought, although I have never said as much before, that we must have come up of ourselves -- the spontaneous growth of a rude, rocky soil, swept by the boisterous north-wind, and washed by the heavy surges of some great unvisited sea.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

But tell them, also that, as I have broken their arrows and dashed their war-axe, in pieces, so will I serve them, if the north-wind brings to my ears a whisper of evil designs from them.

The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

When the Greeks shivered in the cold north-wind, they thought that

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

Why, the north-wind would blow the Spring from my little girl's cheek!

Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Olive Tilford Dargan 1918

In the daytime ravens wheeled and croaked about the outskirts of the town, bearing the shadow of the woods on their plumes and of the north-wind in the somber quality of their voices; rare eagles wheeled gracefully to and fro; snow squalls coquetted with the landscape.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

It was of no use to call up the neighbors, he had never been near their houses, they affirmed, so there was nothing to do but to go to the railroad track where Titee had been seen so often trudging in the shrill north-wind.

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

How sweet the north-wind to the cheek it soon shall cool

The Romance of the Civil War 1903

It was a joyful thing to see and hear them; their legions in flight array went stringing high aloft, so high they looked not like Geese, but threads across the sky, the cobwebs, indeed, that Mother Carey was sweeping away with her north-wind broom.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

In the daytime ravens wheeled and croaked about the outskirts of the town, bearing the shadow of the woods on their plumes and of the north-wind in the sombre quality of their voices; rare eagles wheeled gracefully to and fro; snow squalls coquetted with the landscape.

The Blazed Trail 1902