storm-threatened

Updated: July 25, 2025

A sensation which might fairly be deemed punishment sufficient for all the minor offences of this offensive world, and which we most decidedly object to having inflicted on us for nothing. "The music of the wind!" Why, what can be more detestable than the wind whistling through a key-hole? or singing its shrill melancholy song among the straining cordage of the storm-threatened ship?

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846