howling-wind

Updated: June 13, 2025

But having once struggled past the actual summit, he had escaped that danger, and a minute later, through howling-wind and scourging rain, the fire-lit windows of the house were beaming 'home! upon him. Another instant and his feet were on the firm gravel, and he went scudding before the wind until he had gained the corner of the house.

David Christie Murray - VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea