From which they have supposed nature the winds doth raise,
And from them too proceed the flowing of the seas.
Drayton, Polyolbion, xix. (1622).
Windmill With a Weather-Cock Atop (The). Goodwyn, a puritan divine, of St. Margaret’s, London, was so called (1593-1651).
Windmills. Don Quixote, seeing some thirty or forty windmills, insisted that they were giants, and, running a tilt at one of them, thrust his spear into the sails; whereupon the sail raised both man and horse into the air, and shivered the knight’s lance into splinters. When Don Quixote was thrown to the ground, he persisted in saying that his enemy, Freston, had transformed the giants into windmills merely to rob him of his honor, but notwithstanding, the windmills were in reality giants in disguise. This is the first adventure of the knight.--Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. i. 8 (1605).
Windmills. The giant Widenostrils lived on windmills. (See Widenostrils.) Rabelais, Pantagruel, iv. 17 (1545).
Windsor (The Rev. Mr.), a friend of Master George Heriot, the king’s goldsmith.--Sir W. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).
Windsor Beauties (The), Anne Hyde, duchess of York, and her twelve ladies in the court of Charles II., painted by Sir Peter Lely, at the request of Anne Hyde. Conspicuous in her train of Hebês was Frances Jennings, eldest daughter of Richard Jennings of Standridge, near St. Alban’s.
Windsor Sentinel (The), who heard St. Paul’s clock strike thirteen, was John Hatfield, who died at his house in Glasshouse Yard, Aldersgate, June 18, 1770, aged 102.
Wingate (Master Jasper), the steward at Avenel Castle.--Sir W. Scott, The Abbot (time, Elizabeth).