She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft,
gusty beating of the hot south wind.
And at that I understood the smell of burning wood, the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a
gusty roar, the red glow, and the Morlocks' flight.
The breeze was
gusty; a southerly blow was making up.
Yet Hester was hardly safe in confiding herself to that
gusty tenderness: it passed as suddenly as it came.
At the end of the hall hung a tattered green curtain that swayed and shook in the
gusty wind which had followed him in from the street.
It is a
gusty night of autumn, with frequent showers that patter down upon the pavement, and are gone before a man can put up his umbrella.
Guiltless of diplomacy subterfuge, he was as direct and
gusty as the gale itself.
When Daughtry opened it, the ancient one blew in upon him along with a
gusty wet splatter of the freshening gale.
"What is amiss then?" asked Alleyne, for the man's words were as
gusty as the weather.
His manager and trainer were with him, and he breezed in like a
gusty draught of geniality, good-nature, and all-conqueringness.
One
gusty, raw day at the end of April--the rain whipping the pavement of that ancient street where the old Slaughters' Coffee- house was once situated--George Osborne came into the coffee-room, looking very haggard and pale; although dressed rather smartly in a blue coat and brass buttons, and a neat buff waistcoat of the fashion of those days.
This time, I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the
gusty wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and, I thought, I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement.