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  • The valefolk had ceased their work at the grave, and several of them now gathered around me, concern written across their simple, windworn faces.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • The valefolk had ceased their work at the grave, and several of them now gathered around me, concern written across their simple, windworn faces.

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • A building that has been the focus of a prolonged street battle will have been windworn by bullets, its contours eroded like the rocks of Monument Valley — doorways doubled in width, window pillars narrowed to sticks, roof lines serrated, all sharp edges rounded or flattened.

    Shedding Light on Lebanon 1984

  • A building that has been the focus of a prolonged street battle will have been windworn by bullets, its contours eroded like the rocks of Monument Valley — doorways doubled in width, window pillars narrowed to sticks, roof lines serrated, all sharp edges rounded or flattened.

    Shedding Light on Lebanon 1984

  • A building that has been the focus of a prolonged street battle will have been windworn by bullets, its contours eroded like the rocks of Monument Valley — doorways doubled in width, window pillars narrowed to sticks, roof lines serrated, all sharp edges rounded or flattened.

    Shedding Light on Lebanon 1984

  • One idle stroke of the pick in a windworn bare patch had turned up -- this!

    Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

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