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Meanings of fitful wind in English

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Usage of fitful wind in English
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The logs snapped and a fitful wind stirred the tops of the pines.
The Girl from Keller's
2
A storm was stealing down from the hills, and the fitful wind tasted of rain.
The Port of Missing Men
3
A voice called to him, his mother's voice, but distant, wavering across a fitful wind.
The Mammoth Hunters
4
Out the kitchen window, he noticed a fitful wind dispelling the languid clouds in the distance.
Don't Cry Tai Lake
5
It was not a fierce blaze, though when the fitful wind blew strong it flamed up savagely.
The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol / Or, The Story of ...
6
It became ominously silent there amid the cedars and pines, save when the fitful wind made a rustling.
Frank Merriwell's Cruise
7
A fitful wind shook the maple.
The story of edgar sawtelle
8
A stronger gust of the fitful wind filled the forest with the sulphurous vapors arising from the evaporating furnaces.
Round Anvil Rock: A Romance
9
They tore up a few mesquite groves and disappeared, leaving only the fitful wind and rain of a blown opportunity.
Wired
10
A fitful wind played in gusts now grim, now groping, like a lost thing blundering blindly about in that deep darkness.
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
11
A gusty, fitful wind, holding the fine loess soil in suspension, swirled around them, obscuring their view of the spear holders.
The Plains of Passage
12
He turned and looked out at the fast-falling rain, at the trees swaying in the fitful wind, at the dull, leaden sky.
A Terrible Secret: A Novel
13
It had started to rain slightly, and the light fitful wind was capping the waves with froth, but the tide was coming in.
Chatterbox, 1906
14
His mind wandered, and again became keen with the old-time cynicism and philosophy, as a coal glows and fades in a fitful wind.
The Grey Cloak
15
He saw that his own countrymen were astir, trying to substitute the power of steam for the strength of muscles and the fitful wind.
The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
16
Two weeks of gloomy weather passed, with clouded skies and fitful winds.
The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (12...
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