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boreas

NOUN
  1. a wind that blows from the north

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  • Iste tamen tyro superveniens finaliter illaesus exivit; et dehinc multo tempore Boreas quievit, nec ibidem fuit, ut supra, cateranorum excursus. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Cinesias [running away] "... now rushing along the tracks of Notus, now nearing Boreas across the infinite wastes of the ether. The Birds
  • It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people. Bracebridge Hall
  • But, farthermore, I mention the fifth, marshaled at the fifth gate, that of Boreas, by the very tomb of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
  • It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to outbrave the blustering Boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field, was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
  • [The winds were] "Boreas or Aquilo, the north wind; Zephyrus or Favonius, the west; Notus or Auster, the south; and Eurus, the east." -- p. 176. The Annotated "Franklin's Tower"
  • Caecias does this because it returns upon itself and combines the qualities of Boreas and Eurus. Meteorology
  • Boreas was pictured as bearded and powerful and winged and draped against the cold
  • Circling the globe, the boreal forest—its name derived from Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind—comprises one-third of Earth's wooded lands.
  • CINESIAS "... now rushing along the tracks of Notus, now nearing Boreas across the infinite wastes of the ether. The Birds
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