weathervane

• Head high, hair tossed in the sea breeze like a horse s mane, eyes darting left, right, settling on Iris to make sure she is keeping up, turning away to note a weathervane, a whitewashed chimney, a friendly lad grinning from a window The Master keeps his head down and his collar up. —  Maguire, Gregory - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - UC [.html].htm
• The main cupola grew into a spire topped by a weathervane, a golden bird sitting on a cross. —  The Maine Massacre - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-de Gier 07
• McGilvray says that rockets, when launched, tend to point into the wind a bit, like a weathervane. —  Baltimore City Paper
• From her days as the high priestess of the "John Roger" cult in California - a New Age outfit grouped around a charismatic and controversial leader "John Roger" - Ms. Huffington has always been an ideological weathervane, taking on the colors of whatever ideological craze is in season. —  Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com
• "Old Jake," as the weathervane has long been called, is unprecedented in its quality, form, and scale - measuring over six feet high and six feet wide - and has topped the Charley Rouss Fire Company since just after the Civil War. —  Art Knowledge News

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