night-blasts

Updated: May 14, 2025

To cower under the leafless branches of Bergen Wood, while the November night-blasts made them grind and clang, would have seemed paradise compared with that snug lodging; nay, the grave itself, with its dim dread Hereafter, has been preferred before it. Life at Lingmoor was existence by machinery monotony that sometimes maddened as well as slew. To read of it is to understand nothing of this.

James Payn - Bred in the Bone

In two days they arrived at the vast naked prairie, the wintry aspect of which had caused them in December to pause and turn back. It was now clothed with the early verdure of spring, and plentifully stocked with game. Still, when obliged to bivouac on its bare surface, without any covering, by a scanty fire of buffalo-chips, they found the night-blasts piercingly cold.

Henry Inman - The Great Salt Lake Trail