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It was the winter of 1917, a strong north wind was blustering, but the exigencies of earning my living forced me to be up and out early.

From Time • Oct. 21, 2011

Indonesia's neutralist President Sukarno, who only last May was blustering that "all I have to do is wink" to get Communist aid, put on a broad smile and invited U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

His manner was blustering, because he was glad at having returned, and proud that he had done so without losing any horses.

From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by Jarvis, W. H. P. (William Henry Pope)

Without there was a genuine carnival among the elements, a mingling of snow and rain, which became ice almost as it fell, and about which a regular northeast wind was blustering.

From Three People by Pansy

I couldn’t hear much, ’cause the wind was blustering, and most of what I did hear was bad words—like—well, ‘scown-der-awl,’ and such.

From Her Mother's Secret by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte