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noun

Gust n.

A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. "Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw."

A sudden violent burst of passion.

Gust n.

The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto. "An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite."

Gratification of any kind, particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment. "Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust."

Intellectual taste; fancy. "A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients."

verb

Gust v. t. To taste; to have a relish for. (Obs.)

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"Gust" Quotes from Famous Books

... saw a man with the sort of golden beard an immortal might have worn standing under a station lamp, and breaking now and then into peals of merriment, occasioned, it seemed to me, by what the first porter was telling him. Then both of them looked towards me, and stopped. If in one more gust of hearty laughter that hollow wilderness of a station had vanished, gloom and dreary echoes and frozen lights, and I had found myself blinking in a surprising sunlight at that fellow in the golden beard, ...

— Waiting for Daylight • Henry Major Tomlinson

... in fluttering drapery, and he knew too well that the captive could only be she for whom he had been searching. He had saved her once from the malice of her enemies—this time he was powerless! He raved and cursed in impotent rage and despair while a sudden gust swept the pool and sent it surging over the brim, and a slender cypress that stood hard by rustled and shivered as though in terror. And as he stood there, he suddenly saw the old Court Chamberlain before him, holding in one hand his silken cap and ...

— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey

... covered as with the smoke of a furnace; and the furious sirocco, that threatened to topple us down the gulfs yawning on either hand, had no coolness on its wings. The horses were sure-footed, but now and then a gust would come that made them and us strain against it, to avoid being dashed against the rock on one side, or hurled off the brink on the other. The atmosphere was painfully oppressive, and by and by ...

— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor

... stronger one than the rest. It was strong enough to wave the branches of the trees, and it was more than strong enough to sway the trailing sprays of untrimmed ivy hanging from the wall. Mary had stepped close to the robin, and suddenly the gust of wind swung aside some loose ivy trails, and more suddenly still she jumped toward it and caught it in her hand. This she did because she had seen something under it—a round knob which had been covered by ...

— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... crowned, another welcoming, whistling gust of perdition, more men down, more pushed into the firing line. Half the officers were down; the men puffed and stumbled on. Another ridge—God! Would this cursed hill never end? It was sown with bleeding and dead behind; ...

— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens

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