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...the wind swept down upon the town, throating wildly, tossing the black branches of bare poplars...
The brass weather stripping...vibrated mournfully through the darkness again and again.
... the wind lifted high, and higher still, keening and keening again, to die away and be born once more while the sad hum of the weather stripping lingered on in the silence.,
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 94
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
...listening to the wind in the chimney flue, it had a deep and imperative sound that came again and again.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.100
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
... meadow larks ... their song clear with ineffable exuberance that startled and deepened the prairie silence - each quick and impudent climax of notes leaving behind it a vaster, emptier prairie world.
... geese flew overhead ... their far-off calls drifting down.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.103
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
A. ...the front door swooshed behind him
B. The Catholic church bell began slowly and majestically to tongue the silence.
...When the bell stopped, the morning stillness seemed to have a quality of numbness.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canda, Toronto, 1947, p.107.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
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