Tramontana

The two pulsated and flared in the Santa Ana winds that must be something like the hot tramontana land wind of Spain that Gabriel Garcia Marquez says "carries with it the seeds of madness." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The tramontana, that keen wind which blows from over the snow mountains, was sweeping down the narrow streets, searching out every nook and corner with its icy breath. ❋ Amy Steedman (N/A)

In a doorway of a great house, in one of the narrow streets, a little boy of eight was crouching behind one of the stone pillars as he tried to keep out of the grip of the tramontana. ❋ Amy Steedman (N/A)

So we have been dragging in by inches our chairs and tables throughout the summer, and by no means look finished and furnished at this late moment, the slow Italians coming at the heels of our slowest intentions with the putting up of our curtains, which begin to be necessary in this November tramontana. ❋ Unknown (1907)

When the tramontana blew, he was comfortable enough. ❋ Stearns, Frank P (1906)

But the climate of Rome was considered by Dr Gresonowsky more suitable for winter, and towards the close of November they took their departure, flying from the Florentine tramontana. ❋ Dowden, Edward (1904)

For one thing the hill was swathed in mists, it rained at intervals, a kind of bitter _tramontana_ was blowing. ❋ Morley Roberts (1899)

Probably a sudden call from the tramontana brought it; even frost we had. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

But we spend the winter in Rome, because the great guns of the revolution (and even the small daggers) will be safer to encounter than any sort of tramontana. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

I, for instance, have been kept in the house for a fortnight or more (till Christmas Day, when I was able to get to St. Peter's) by tramontana; but there has been sun on most days of cold, and nothing has been severe as cold. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

I have taken to ass's milk to counteract the tramontana, and he is in the twenty-first and I in the twenty-second volume of Alexandre Dumas's ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

But we have had and are having some cold, some tramontana, and I have kept house ever since. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

On returning to Florence (Browning with the MS. of the greater part of his splendid fragmentary tragedy, “In a Balcony,” composed mainly while walking alone through the forest glades), Mrs. Browning found that the chill breath of the tramontana was affecting her lungs, so a move was made to Rome, for the passing of the winter (1853-4). ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)

Perpignan is as picturesque, as sun-smitten and, in spite of the icy tramontana, even as joyous a place as tourist could desire; and the ❋ William John Locke (1896)

A bright day of iciest tramontana, cutting you in two in the square, under the colonnades, and in the narrow chink-opening of the great green bronze doors. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

The weather has cleared; slight tramontana, pure sky, with white storm - or snow-clouds collected like rolled-up curtains, everywhere on the horizon. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

The tramontana visited it then as now, fever, too, and sudden death. ❋ Edgar Saltus (1889)