Vocabulary Word
Word: gusty
Definition: windy
Definition: windy
Sentences Containing 'gusty'
I imagined myself a death sentinel drowsing there alone, far in the dragging watches of some wailing, gusty night, and having in a twinkling all my body stricken to quivering jelly by the sudden clamor of that awful summons!
The delicate little people must have heard me hammering in gusty outbreaks a mile away on either hand, but nothing came of it.
And at that I understood the smell of burning wood, the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar, the red glow, and the Morlocks' flight.
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