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Aquilon   Listen
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Aquilon  n.  The north wind. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Aquilon" Quotes from Famous Books



... country villages, and the larger number of them lay to the north and east of the county of Norfolk. We take note of this that we call a fact, and straightway the temptation presents itself to construct a theory upon it. Who knows not that in the trying spring-time, the "colic of puff'd Aquilon" makes life hard for man and beast in Norfolk, and that across our fields the cruel gusts burst upon us with a bitter petulance, unsparing, pitiless, hateful, till our vitality seems to be steadily waning? It was in the month of March that the great plague smote us first:—did ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp



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