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Whistle for the Wind

(See Capfull.)

What gales are sold on Lapland's shore!
How whistle rash bids tempests roar!

Sir Walter Scott: Rokeby, ii. II.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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