equinoctial storm
Americannoun
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Jimbo could hardly keep his eyes alight, and Monkey's hair was like a baby haystack the wind had treated to an equinoctial storm.
From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Blackwood, Algernon
A heavy equinoctial storm had raged for two days before, and it would have been no surprise had the incomplete works suffered.
From Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis
Love is warm, but what warmth is proof against the chilling blasts and pelting rains of the equinoctial storm?
From Romance of California Life by Habberton, John
The sea captain fears a fog more than an equinoctial storm.
From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight
September 18.—During the night and this morning it has continued to blow a perfect equinoctial storm.
From Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by Oxley, John
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