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Boreas

noun
1.
A wind that blows from the north.  Synonyms: north wind, norther, northerly.
2.
(Greek mythology) the god who personified the north wind.



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"Boreas" Quotes from Famous Books



... frio Boreas y el helado Noto Apoderados de la mar insana Anegaron agora en este puerto Una dichosa nave. (iTirsi, ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various

... had changed and waxed tempestuous like the warrior's soul; and Boreas, his locks bristling with Thracian frosts, his cheeks puffed out, his arms folded upon his breast, smote the rain-freighted clouds with the mighty beatings of ...
— King Candaules • Theophile Gautier

... judgment. If ever on this earth there was a man that in his prime, when saluted with contumely from all quarters, manifested a stern deafness to criticism—it was William Wordsworth. And we thought the better of him by much for this haughty defiance to groundless judgments. But the cloak, which Boreas could not tear away from the traveller's resistance, oftentimes the too genial Phoebus has filched from his amiable spirit of compliance. These criticisms of Coleridge, generally so wayward and one-sided, ...
— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... from the hand of Boreas filched Congealment's art, which did dinero put Within their well filled purse, as day by day They fattened on the appetites of those Who loved a cooling draft more than the pelf Which is alas the seed that germinates To ...
— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)

... advertisement for somebody's patent pills, only I feel too honorable for that; for it is fresh air that has done it. Fresh air, and plenty of it!" and he turned his nose again in the direction of the window, as if he would gulp the air down in gallons—a veritable glutton of Boreas. ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh


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