It did keep on all night; and the blinding drifts were whirling before the wind with a gustier sweep than ever, when the farmhouse people peered out at them next morning.
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard
His wife, in her gustier moments, thought it sheer weakness, this persistent turning away from evil, this refusal to investigate and dissect, to take sides, to wrestle.
"The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight"
Elizabeth von Arnim