Verb (used without object) : the wind soughing in the meadow. From Dictionary.com.
I knew it was the "sough" of the sea against the sides of the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Tar] Reference
In the "sough" of the torrent, we heard their sighs -- in its roar, the groans of their departing spirits!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
Yet they see life beyond, if they can but reach it, -- life in a breeze, the "sough" on the water, of which Seagriff spoke. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure] Reference
A "sough" against the wall, and leant there, pale and breathless. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Night] Reference
"sough" of the sea, and the sighing of the breeze, as it blew along the smooth sides of the sand-hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
It was no louder than the sough of the night breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
At other times he would be only a sough in the night wind. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
The weary wind was hush'd asleep, an 'no a sough cam' nigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
I could just make out her words above the sough of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
It is probably a sough, as of rustling surf in some palmy place. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
“It is the sough of the wind among the bracken,” said another. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
Their sound came as a whisper, almost hidden in the sough of trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
She walked across a flowery meadow, hearing wind sough in the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The High Crusade]
The sough of the wind in the trees grew rhythmic, hypnotic, lulling. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Symmetry] Reference
Lloyds has sough to avoid this move, wanting to maintain independence. From Wordnik.com. [Downturn in the U.K. Stokes Fears Over Lloyds] Reference
Cyclona lifted her head to listen to the moan and the sough of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
Take note; children will grow, they are the seeds your oppressions sough. From Wordnik.com. [Natalie Abou Shakra: From the Students of Gaza, to the Students of the World] Reference
The black sough of wind from it lifted her hair, and dampened her forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
I wasn't seeing the blanket-rolled shapes, though, or hearing the sough of dark pines. From Wordnik.com. [The Fiery Cross]
What Roland heard instead was the sough of the wind ... and what the King wanted him to hear. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
Without the sough of needles and leaves to soften its voice, the whistle was sharp and unkind. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
It sough an equitable welfare policy for all sections of the population, and to rebuild family values. From Wordnik.com. [THE MORAL RENEWAL OF THE NATION] Reference
All round her, like the sough of shingle on an ebb-tide beach, Eurydike felt the lapse of the withdrawing sea. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
So far more than 70,000 refugees have sough asylum in the neighbouring States of India, Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal. From Wordnik.com. [1962] Reference
We were close by the fire, for McGilp liked to be hearing the sough of the wind in the lum, and him snug and warm. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
She heard the voice of her beloved in the sough of the wind among the trees, and it made her inexpressibly melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
"Where is he now?" she asks herself with a shivering sigh, as she listens to the restless creak and sough of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
No sounds but the sough of the wind, the whispering sleet (now starting to abate), and the crackle of the blessed fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
It grew clearer and yet uncannier as I sped on, and mixed with the sough of it I could hear at last the clink of chains. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Conan eased his broadsword out of its scabbard and cut the air with a swish that could be heard above the sough of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
Now, though it was but the rustle of sweeping robes, it seemed to sough like the wind among the clashing blades of palm-leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Treasury prices advanced as investors hunkered down ahead of the jobs report and sough shelter from the toppling stock market. From Wordnik.com. [Dow, Nasdaq Enter Bear Market] Reference
As penile enlargement exercises have become a sough. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Carey Mulligan has become one of Hollywood's most sough-after actresses. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference
The most sough after jewellery and is being replaced by diamonds and other precious gems. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Soaring gold prices lead to innovation in India] Reference
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