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gustful
adj 2noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, loose
VERB + GUSTFUL
drove, preserved
GUSTFUL + NOUN
april, morn, sand, year
PREP.
on
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adj
1
gusty
[T]hey sat / Beneath a world-old yew-tree, darkening half / The cloisters, on a gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke / Above them, […]
2
tasty; good-tasting
The said season being passed, there is no danger or difficulty to keep it [preserved meat] gustful all the year long.
noun
1
An amount carried in a gust.
The wind, ruffling up the lane, drove a gustful of loose sand against her like spray, and bore in the hollow boom of breaking waves, which seemed to take her breath.
In the pictures we get a view of miles of scenery, the mountain tops, the horsemen galloping along the road, the soldiers charging a position. We see the waving of the tree branches, the wind blowing the girl's tresses. We get nature in gustfuls.
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[T]hey sat / Beneath a world-old yew-tree, darkening half / The cloisters, on a gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke / Above them, […]
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The said season being passed, there is no danger or difficulty to keep it [preserved meat] gustful all the year long.
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The wind, ruffling up the lane, drove a gustful of loose sand against her like spray, and bore in the hollow boom of breaking waves, which seemed to take her breath.
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In the pictures we get a view of miles of scenery, the mountain tops, the horsemen galloping along the road, the soldiers charging a position. We see the waving of the tree branches, the wind blowing
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[…] when the southwest wind savaged his villa and roared in the chimneys and slapped its windows with gustsful of rain and promised to wet that author thoroughly and exasperatingly down his neck and r
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