80 examples of wind-swept in sentences

They never make haste, however, and seem to have no dread of storms, many of the strongest only going down leisurely to bare, wind-swept ridges, to feed on bushes and dry bunch-grass, and then returning up into the snow.

She sidestepped them, hurrying down a wind-swept brick walk and out a picket gate that did not swing entirely after.

After that there was a stretch of wind-swept ice, and Kazan pulled the sledge alone.

His limbs like wind-swept reeds Trembled and bent beneath him; so he rose And came to meet his friends who were his foes Then unto Finn he spake with accents meek, "One last request I of the Fians seek, Whom I have loved in peace and served in strife" "'Tis thine," said Finn, "but ask not for thy life, For thou art 'mong the Fians."

It was a wind-swept, chilly morning in late November, and Evelyn Brydon, alone in the silent little house, stood at the window looking listlessly at the dull gray monochrome which stretched before her.

" Pearl ran back across the wind-swept yard to the house, for the one thought in her mind was that a message might come over the phone for her!

" He paused, and they took the whole one long turn along the wind-swept, shadowy deck in silence.

It had called to him in the swirl of many a wind-swept storm.

He kept near her throughout that riotous scamper through the bare, wind-swept Park, making it plain that he regarded himself as her lieutenant whether she required his services or not.

They went out together on to the open wind-swept hillside, Piers still strongly supporting him, for he stumbled painfully.

THE HARP Across the wind-swept spaces of the sky The harp of all the world is hung on high, And through its shining strings the swallows fly.

Rain-washed and green, wind-swept and clean, Beneath the blue it stands, And no cathedral anywhere Seemeth so holy or so fair.

Then I was left alone again, with the great expanse of sea, the yellow margin of sand, and the reddish-brown cliffs, all beneath the wind-swept sky.

Think of the high, wind-swept ridges, among the clefts of which are the only homesteads of the hardy pioneers by whose agency alone one kind of luxury is kept up to the standard demand for it in the great cities.

The drop was very sharp, and now they were leaving the wind-swept pass, the snow had begun to pack among the stones and boggy grass.

I had conceived myself as strutting with a measured dignity before a background of the other boysa background that moved and did not change, like a wind-swept tapestry; but I was quite sure that I would not be allowed to give myself airs at home.

If we stand on the wind-swept top of Yeavering Bell, we are surrounded by the evidences of still more remote days, for the whole of the summit was once a fortified camp of the ancient Britons.

Before them the plateau stretched a mile or more, wind-swept, sun-drenched, with an indescribable bold look of great altitude; but close to them at one side ran a parapet-like line of tumbled rock and beyond this a sheer descent.

She fell at last, suddenly, fathoms deep into youthful slumber, and at once passed out from tormented darkness into some strange, sunny, wind-swept place on a height.

The wind-swept shadows fast careered, Like living things that joyed or feared, Adown the sunny Eildon Hill, And the sweet winding Tweed the distance crowned well.

A little farther on was a grass-grown tumulus of Saxon times, and his mind was distracted from the present to those early days when the unknown dead was committed to this wind-swept tomb.

As far as I can gather he got half-way to C. Bird before he came to thin ice; for at least 5 or 6 miles past C. Royds the ice is old and covered with wind-swept snow.

It took the best part of a fortnight to cross the coldest region, and then rounding C. Mackay they entered the wind-swept area.

He and his kind have ever shared the toil of the development of that desolate country that stretches from the ice-bound Arctic to where the gray and sullen waters of Bering Sea break on a bleak and wind-swept shore.

Three or four times during the day we passed heaps of reindeer's antlers, and piles of ashes surrounded by large circles of evergreen twigs, which marked the sites of Korak tents; but the band of wild nomads which had left these traces had long before disappeared, and was now perhaps herding its deer on the wind-swept shores of the Arctic Ocean.

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