Example Sentences

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We slept on two seats in the smoker, and got to Weehawken in the brumous chill of a winter dawn—still wearing our tie.

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher

The brumous North was the home of mysticism, of Gothic architecture.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

As well might such as watch the process of the green, unfolding earth, emerging from the brumous arms of winter, isolate a single day and call it Spring.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John

But nobody has blown away from the matter its brumous encompassment and let in the light upon it It is very simple.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

You can hear wild fowl calling far up in the brumous smother which hides the lift.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)