Thawing had loosened a rock and the wind set it rolling.

The turning wind in the squall had set her half a mile to the west.

A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering.

It surprised nobody; all had seen in what quarter the wind was setting from the first week after Frank's arrival home.

The wind does set so, then, as I thought.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all woods may be drawing near.

In a few days, a seasonal change in the weather could be expected, and an offshore wind would set them free.

Instead the rising wind set the arms spinning so fast the operators couldn't stop it.

"Ye can smell the smoking fires a great ways away, if the wind sets right."

Although its winds set a modern record, this storm was not Britain's worst.