dream-wind

Updated: May 7, 2025

All that night in my restless sleep I drove speed boats at a terrific pace through impossible channels and rock-toothed Scyllas; and the little Cornishman fought angry seas and heard a dream-wind shrieking in the cordage, and felt the salt spume on his face. "I wonder why I am always dreaming that," he said.

John Gneisenau Neihardt - The River and I

Ages swept by me like a dream-wind. When I got back, the machine, all but run down, was scratching hideously. Slowly we swung about in the scarcely perceptible current. Down among the luggage the three snored discordantly. Frank's cigarette glowed intermittently against the dim horizon, like a bonfire far off.

John Gneisenau Neihardt - The River and I