Example Sentences

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The two men did not speak as the car rolled through the brumous night.

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

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

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

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

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)

From this interesting height there are two views: one over the beautiful plains of Lancashire, another towards the brumous mountains of Oxfordshire.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George