Three days they had to wait before the West wind came.
"Because there is no other smell in the West wind but snuff," said Jip.
It might not have been in any way his fault, as, in the case of the Coldwater, it could not possibly have been justly charged to my account that the gravitation-screen generators were worthless; but well I knew that should chance have it that we were blown across thirty today--as we might easily be before the terrific
west wind that we could hear howling below us, the responsibility would fall upon my shoulders.
It was a wonderful spring morning, with a soft
west wind blowing from the land.
It was some time before they started for their walk; he kept an arm about her, and their sides were close together as they walked; the sun, the birds, the
west wind running among the trees, a pressure, a look, the grasp tightening round a single finger, these things stood them in lieu of thought and filled their hearts with joy.
The
west wind was rippling through the orchards which bordered the garden.
As when some mighty wave that thunders on the beach when the
west wind has lashed it into fury--it has reared its head afar and now comes crashing down on the shore; it bows its arching crest high over the jagged rocks and spews its salt foam in all directions--even so did the serried phalanxes of the Danaans march steadfastly to battle.
Tarzan, however, was confident that with a good
west wind he could navigate the little craft to the mainland.
I do love the
west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it?
Then she thanked the moon, and went on till the night-wind blew; and she raised up her voice to it, and said, 'Thou blowest through every tree and under every leaf--hast thou not seen my white dove?' 'No,' said the night-wind, 'but I will ask three other winds; perhaps they have seen it.' Then the east wind and the
west wind came, and said they too had not seen it, but the south wind said, 'I have seen the white dove--he has fled to the Red Sea, and is changed once more into a lion, for the seven years are passed away, and there he is fighting with a dragon; and the dragon is an enchanted princess, who seeks to separate him from you.' Then the night-wind said, 'I will give thee counsel.
The moon, which had shone for a short time, disappeared behind the clouds; every object was again plunged in the obscurity that is so awful in the deserts and still more so in that liquid desert, the ocean, and nothing was heard save the whistling of the
west wind driving along the tops of the crested billows.
But here you felt yourself closer to the wide, deep ocean than on the shore of that North Sea which seemed always circumscribed; here you could draw a long breath as you looked out upon the even vastness; and the
west wind, the dear soft salt wind of England, uplifted the heart and at the same time melted it to tenderness.
west wind - wind that blows from west to east