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With winds that were blustering up to 30 mph, Journell said he tried to aim that first kick at the left upright, except “the wind never moved the ball.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2012

She knew which of them were quiet, and which were blustering; which were shy, and which greedy—most of them were this—and she used to feed them with crumbs on the window-sill.

From Two Prisoners by Page, Thomas Nelson

President Lincoln was calm and unmoved when England and France were blustering and threatening war.

From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller by McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)

The wind and the snow were blustering outdoors.

From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson

There were blustering winds strewing the recently green earth with beds of withered leaves of every foliage, stripped and fallen from the shivering woods above.

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane