sanser

Updated: April 30, 2025

Hard and close application through the winter had left me ill prepared to resist the baleful influences of a New England spring. I shrank alike from the storms of March, the capricious changes of April, and the sudden alternations of May, from the blandest of southwest breezes to the terrible and icy eastern blasts which sweep our seaboard like the fabled sanser, or wind of death.

John Greenleaf Whittier - My Summer with Dr. Singletary: Part 2, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches

Hard and close application through the winter had left me ill prepared to resist the baleful influences of a New England spring. I shrank alike from the storms of March, the capricious changes of April, and the sudden alternations of May, from the blandest of southwest breezes to the terrible and icy eastern blasts which sweep our seaboard like the fabled sanser, or wind of death.

John Greenleaf Whittier - Tales and Sketches, Complete: Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches