wind-scoured

To universal delight, the girls discover boys in the vicinity—boys who are fun, boys who are awkward, and one boy, Cain Hinchcliff, who possesses a dark, brooding manner fitting to the wind-scoured landscape of the moors.

Misty Moors and Gothic Séances Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

Ahead and behind, the wind-scoured highway stretches black.

Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010

These in turn grew stunted, becoming no more man bushes, until at last there was only hearty low scrub and grasses eking out a living amongst the wind-scoured boulders and scree.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

Beneath the patina of dust, I could see the rose embossed upon his wind-scoured armor.

Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

We slid into the field that was serving as a parking lot, and the man driving the team whoaed his horses to ask if we would like a lift to the barnyard, his Pennsylvania Dutch vowels as flat as the wind-scoured landscape.

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

At the very bottom, alongside the wind-scoured river, we stopped before high, harsh gray concrete walls decorated with razor wire.

Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

If Crozier's sledge teams survived this ice crossing — and kept ahead of the thing following them on the ice — all 105 men would be together on the wind-scoured northwestern coast of the island.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

A bare patch of gravel and stone that seemed a hundred feet away turned out to be a mile away far out on the featureless wind-scoured point.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

In the wind-scoured high desert that was once the heartland of the Taliban movement, the will and determination of a little-heralded American ally have been undergoing a harsh test.

Afstan in US press/CF plan 2007

In the wind-scoured high desert that was once the heartland of the Taliban movement, the will and determination of a little-heralded American ally have been undergoing a harsh test.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007