It was a wet spring day, with dark clouds hanging low over the heath, a cold wind cheeping, soughing, sighing; and Dale's face was darker and sadder than the day.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
There is such silence up here on the tableland at mid-day-only a light soughing of the soft, hot wind, otherwise not even the cheep of a lizard.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
She describes with appalling vividness the experiences of the night: the moonlit forest-the snow-covered ground-the wolves approaching with a whispering tread, which seems at first but the soughing of a gentle wind-the wedge-like, ever-widening mass, which emerges from the trees; then the flight, and the pursuit: the latter arrested for one moment by the sacrifice of each victim; to be renewed the next, till none is left to sacrifice: one child dragged from the mother's arms; another shielded by her whole body, till the wolf's teeth have fastened in her flesh; and though she betrays, in the very effort to conceal it, how little she has done to protect her children's lives, we realize the horror of her situation, and pity even while we condemn, her.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr