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Windswept   /wˈɪnswˌɛpt/   Listen
Windswept

adjective
1.
Open to or swept by wind.





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"Windswept" Quotes from Famous Books



... terrified exultation. She had longed to go out and stand on the wind-buffeted pier and take her part in this saturnalia of the elements. She had something of the same feeling now; a longing to leave her bed and go out onto the windswept prairie. ...
— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett
... houses cluster, as if they had come for their week's groceries, or were waiting for the mail, while toward the west the dwellings become fewer and fewer, until at last the village blends into a long stretch of sandy coast and scrubby pine-woods. Eastward the village ends abruptly at the foot of a windswept bluff, on which ...
— The Magic Egg and Other Stories • Frank Stockton


Words linked to "Windswept" :   inhospitable


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