1 The wind was howling under the window.
2 The rain had ceased and there was a roaring wind.
3 It was a winding road, and about a hundred paces further on, it turned to the right to the graveyard.
4 'You've been so busy to-day, Arkady Ivanovitch, you have forgotten to wind the dining-room clock,' she said.
5 I ordered it just now to wind myself up, for I am just going off somewhere and you see me in a peculiar state of mind.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER III 6 The cellar rats will swim out, and men will curse in the rain and wind as they drag their rubbish to their upper storeys.
7 The wind lashed furiously into the little room and stung his face and his chest, only covered with his shirt, as though with frost.
8 And even if she does not, the Darya Frantsovnas will get wind of it, and the girl will soon be slipping out on the sly here and there.
9 The room was close, the candle burnt dimly, the wind was roaring outside, he heard a mouse scratching in the corner and the room smelt of mice and of leather.
10 Perhaps the cold, or the dampness, or the dark, or the wind that howled under the window and tossed the trees roused a sort of persistent craving for the fantastic.
11 And she had destroyed herself, crushed by an insult that had appalled and amazed that childish soul, had smirched that angel purity with unmerited disgrace and torn from her a last scream of despair, unheeded and brutally disregarded, on a dark night in the cold and wet while the wind howled.