What is "wind-blown"

Usage examples of "wind-blown".

As we neared the crest of the Saddle wind-blown drifts of snow stung our faces.

HAWLEY SAID, AT THEIR WIND-BLOWN campfire that night, high on the road, in a clump of evergreens that gave them a little shelter.

The city of Bodach had been engineered by the ancients to take into account the extremely fierce monsoons that swept across the desert-then the sea-during the very brief storm seasons, but in all the years that the city had been abandoned, the gutters had cracked and been filled with wind-blown sand.

Moulokuiese arrived from the city with their own artillery and began using catapults to hurl wind-blown boulders back at the attacking rafts, the despair of the Poyo soldiers could almost be felt.

While shehas never chosen to present the formal, every-hair-in-place-self-presentation favored by most of thebroads what hang out at the sushi bar, optin'instead for a casual wind-blown look, I am suffi-ciently versed in the secrets of the female gender tobe aware that the latter look is as, or more, difficultto establish and maintain as the former, and often119 120 Robert Asprin harder to carry off.

Others, pelted by Oklahoma dust storms, were jostled home in flatbeds cushioned by bright posters from carnivals buried in the wind-blown desolations of 1936 America.

Outside, the Afines were stormy: she could hear the wind-blown precipitation rattling in irregular surges and remissions against the flexible Tree awning sealing the balcony.

The coxswain gunned the craft's engines and the skirts inflated, lifting the air cushion vehicle clear of the beach in a storm of wind-blown sand and spray.

The travelers endeavored to present a dashing and cavalier appearance to the group of ladies who waved good-by from the hotel, as they took their way over the waste and wind-blown declivities, but it was only a show, for the horses would neither caracole nor champ the bit (at a dollar a day) down- hill over the slippery stones, and, truth to tell, the wanderers turned with regret from the society of leisure and persiflage to face the wilderness of Mitchell County.

They did repaint the airplane however, as just one night in the wind-blown Arabian desert had so ruined the finish it looked like someone had taken an electric sander to it.

I had robbed the treasurer’s office, cast off my habit, crossed the Atlas, the up­per plateaus and the desert, the bus-driver of the [41] Trans-Sahara line made fun of me: ‘Don’t go there,’ he too, what had got into them all, and the gusts of sand for hundreds of wind-blown kilome­ters, progressing and backing in the face of the wind, then the mountains again made up of black peaks and ridges sharp as steel, and after them it took a guide to go out on the endless sea of brown pebbles, screaming with heat, burning with the fires of a thousand mirrors, to the spot on the con­fines of the white country and the land of the blacks where stands the city of salt.

Nothing there but some wind-blown old forest and a temple and sand dunes.

I saw the gigantic head, like a globe of gold, surmounted with wind-blown antennae, glistening with delicate sensory hair.

Dismay checked him when he saw the wreck again, all of it except the uptilted bail buried under old snow and wind-blown dust.