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c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlii. 306 Ne læte ge eow ælcre lare wind awecggan. [Eph. iv. 14.]

a1300 Cursor Mundi 26995 Quat es mans lijf bot..a rek þat..skailles wit a windes blast?

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xix. 32 The worlde is a wykkede wynde to hem þat wolde treuthe.

c1450 Cast. Persev. 2542 It is good, whon-so þe wynde blowe, A man to haue sum-what of his owe.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Eph. iv. 14 Waverynge and caryed with every wynde of doctryne.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Div Al this wynd shakes no corne.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. L An yll wynde, that blowth no man to good, men saie.

1568 R. Henryson in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 165 This wikkit wind of adulatioun.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 13^v It is an ill winde turnes none to good.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B All this wind shakes none of my Corne.

1633 G. Herbert Affliction in Temple (1st) Thus thinne and lean without a fence or friend, I was blown through with ev'ry storm and winde.

c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) To Children 1 They..may lett loose the winds of passion to bring in a flood of sorrow.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour ii. i. 9 'Tis an ill Wind that blows no body good.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 176 God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

1776 D. Hume My own Life in Hist. Eng. (1778) I. p. xiii This variety of winds and seasons to which my writings had been exposed.

1815 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 162 Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 184 'Twas this wind of pride that took thee of yore full sail upon these rocks.

1907 W. Raleigh Shakespeare iv. 108 If once we are foolishly persuaded to go behind the authority of Heminge and Condell..we..are afloat upon a wild and violent sea, subject to every wind of doctrine.

1913 G. Santayana Winds of Doctrine ii. 25 Prevalent winds of doctrine must needs penetrate at last into the cloister.

1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism iii. 179 With such a wind of doctrine in their sails men were not far from the days of complete freedom of contract.

1953 H. Weisinger Tragedy & Paradox of Fortunate Fall vi. 267 The winds of new doctrine swept through the streets of Athens and London and left the old and conventional modes of religious thought bare.

1953 E. Coxhead Midlanders vii. 158 The winds of want still blew about the world.

1962 Listener 26 Apr. 717/1 Ideas..become ossified if they are not exposed to the wind of criticism.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 10/5 To protect their own lives and those of their children, they will bend with the winds of war.