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  • Maintenance is fairly simple, with an automatic irrigation system – essential for thirsty, container-grown and wind-beaten roof gardens.

    Gardens: Roof gardens 2010

  • Snowdon that he built the castle, which he fondly deemed would prove impregnable, but which his enemies destroyed by flinging wild-fire over its walls; and it was in a wind-beaten valley of Snowdon, near the sea, that his dead body decked in green armour had a mound of earth and stones raised over it.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • An empty sand-packed parking lot, large enough for fifty cars, was lined with wind-beaten lime-yellow splotched palmettos lashing about in the cool on-shore breeze.

    Aqui es México 2000

  • An empty sand-packed parking lot, large enough for fifty cars, was lined with wind-beaten lime-yellow splotched palmettos lashing about in the cool on-shore breeze.

    Aqui es México 2000

  • An empty sand-packed parking lot, large enough for fifty cars, was lined with wind-beaten lime-yellow splotched palmettos lashing about in the cool on-shore breeze.

    Aqui es México 2000

  • She took the tin-can ferry to Little Moon, where there was nothing to do but walk along a muddy path to the other end of the island past wind-beaten houses and a church with a missing steeple, a forty-minute march to an abandoned crafts center, quilting and woodcarving maybe and pottery by all means, and then briskly back again.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • She took the tin-can ferry to Little Moon, where there was nothing to do but walk along a muddy path to the other end of the island past wind-beaten houses and a church with a missing steeple, a forty-minute march to an abandoned crafts center, quilting and woodcarving maybe and pottery by all means, and then briskly back again.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • She took the tin-can ferry to Little Moon, where there was nothing to do but walk along a muddy path to the other end of the island past wind-beaten houses and a church with a missing steeple, a forty-minute march to an abandoned crafts center, quilting and woodcarving maybe and pottery by all means, and then briskly back again.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • She took the tin-can ferry to Little Moon, where there was nothing to do but walk along a muddy path to the other end of the island past wind-beaten houses and a church with a missing steeple, a forty-minute march to an abandoned crafts center, quilting and woodcarving maybe and pottery by all means, and then briskly back again.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • Images and symbols that he would later make famous arise here, too, like the questers in “Sir Roland,” the tower of “Tower wind-beaten grim,” or the symbolic geography of fountains, dells, boats, and sun and moon that dot the poems.

    Under The Moon William Butler Yeats 1995

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