[…] promising to surrender them whenever they should be summoned by a fleet that should sail to them [the Pelasgians of Lemnos] from Attica in one day with a northwind.
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Northwind
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[...] and notwithstanding the cutting blasts of a northwind, and the sharp driftings of the half-frozen snow, [...]
Source: wiktionary
To illustrate more fully, if an author managed over a certain number of his pages to produce a feeling of sultriness, or oppression, in the reader, this would unconsciously awaken in the reader the desire for a cold, fresh northwind — and thus some aspect of a northwind would be effective if called forth by some aspect of sultriness.
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