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  • The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • While through the wind-swayed walls of reed and vine

    The Wood Carver's Wife Marjorie Lowry Christie 1922

  • There were traces of old paths still and a double line of rosebushes through the middle; but all the rest of the space was a sheet of yellow and white narcissi, in their airiest, most lavish, wind-swayed bloom above the lush green grasses.

    Anne of Avonlea 1909

  • When he tried to think of the Alice he loved he saw, not the shadowy spirit occupant of the west gable, but the young girl who had stood under the pine, beautiful with the beauty of moonlight, of starshine on still water, of white, wind-swayed flowers growing in silent, shadowy places.

    The Golden Road 1908

  • Through the wind-swayed branches, little flickering patches of morning sunlight met his gaze, as they played and quivered on the forest moss or over the sere pine-spills.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

  • From the portico of one of these dwellings, under a wind-swayed sign which advertised it to be a place of rest and refreshment, stepped a man of more than middle age, whose nervous gait and anxious face betokened a mind ill at ease.

    An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada A. Ethelwyn Wetherald 1898

  • Now a wind-swayed branch of manzanita rasped the canvas, and cast upon it shadows of its moving leaves.

    A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

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