low-blowing

Updated: May 4, 2025

Here she came to cry, when her little heart was overfull at her mother's sharp fault-finding, or when bidden to keep out of the way, and not be troublesome. She used to look over the swelling expanse of moor, and the tears were dried up by the soft low-blowing wind which came sighing along it.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - The Moorland Cottage