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... the dead and yellowed leaves ... sliding, at the bidding of the wind, along the walk ahead of him, their arched and brittle tips hissing slightly over the cement.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.178.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
A shrill and agonized cry arose, trembling on the fall afternoon, shearing the silence, going up and up and hanging there.
The cry went up again. It died down to a scarcely audible whimper deep in the dog's throat.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.179.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
...little slapping sounds that came whenever a breeze off the prairie compelled the poplar's leaves slightly. For long periods of time they hung listless, then with the breath of a careless wind took up their tapping again.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.185.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
... the dryness of still prairie under summer sun came to her, and with it the sigh of wind bending long waves through prairie grass.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.187.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
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