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  • When we arrived at the breeze-swept, wind-chilled platform, a UP freight train was parked on the inbound track.

    Mike Doyle: How Metra Lost a New Rider 2009

  • Then again all was a perfect calm, and the young leaves over the stream hung heavily on their tender foot-stalks, and the points of the breeze-swept grass turned back, and the ruffle of all things smoothed itself.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Its locust trees were breeze-swept, its grass abundant.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Its locust trees were breeze-swept, its grass abundant.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Its locust trees were breeze-swept, its grass abundant.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Its locust trees were breeze-swept, its grass abundant.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Its locust trees were breeze-swept, its grass abundant.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • She beheld a breeze-swept sea from her window with no fishing boats going out.

    Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

  • All the ladies on the breeze-swept veranda laughed, but little Nellie frowned and said:

    More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

  • The bird had obtained its freedom, and was, no doubt, by this time asleep, nestling amid the breeze-swept foliage of some wooded glen.

    A Ghetto Violet From "Christian and Leah" Leopold Kompert

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