Meaning of gustful | Babel Free

Definitions

An amount carried in a gust.

uncommon

Examples

“The wind, ruffling up the lane, drove a gustful of loose sand against her like⟳ spray, and bore in the hollow boom of breaking waves, which seemed to take⟳ her breath.”

“In the pictures we get⟳ a view⟳ of miles of scenery, the mountain tops, the horsemen galloping along the road, the soldiers charging a position. We see⟳ the waving of the tree branches, the wind blowing the girl's tresses. We get⟳ nature in gustfuls.”

“[…] when the southwest wind savaged his villa and roared in the chimneys and slapped its windows with gustsful of rain⟳ and promised to wet⟳ that author thoroughly and exasperatingly down his neck and roimd his wrists and ankles directly he put⟳ his nose outside his door.”

“The birds began to drop, loose bundles of feathers that bounced as they hit the ground, and made an ankh as the last⟳ gustful of wind was knocked out of them.”

“[…] as a tree trunk stirs somewhere in front into a dark-cloaked shepherd boy rising like⟳ a goblin gustful of leaves and staring from under his old cloth cap, dumb till I’m past him.”

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