soughs

Updated: June 13, 2025

A scurry, like the sound of the wild hunt, and speedily the storm is laid. Merely a wanton whir still pulses in the breeze, a wave of weird voluptuousness, like the sensuous breath of unblest love, still soughs above the spot where impious charms had shed their raptures and over which the night now broods once more. But dawn begins to break; already from afar is heard again the pilgrims' chant.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

Here and there the wind soughs through masses of tall reeds and aquatic plants; at other points the waters overflow their bounds for some two or three thousand yards, creating on each side an impassable swamp.

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

What sawest thou there this day, Daughter, my daughter? 'Oh, I saw a boat come drifting nigh, Where the quivering rushes hiss and sigh, And the water soughs as it gurgles by, And the shrill wind sighs a straining. "'What sailed in the boat, my daughter?

Howard Pyle - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood