sweeping-of-the-wind

Updated: May 22, 2025

He laughed often, at his own and my father's remarks, and at the close of the tumbling diction of "The Brook;" and he therefore frequently snorted in this sweeping-of-the-wind fashion. I listened, spellbound. He also very gently and breezily expressed his touched sensibility, after some recitation of his of rare lines from other poems, but in the same odd manner.

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop - Memories of Hawthorne