1 He had a delicate skin, easily roughened by sun and wind.
2 Outside I could hear the wind singing over hundreds of miles of snow.
3 After the sun sank, a cold wind sprang up and moaned over the prairie.
4 While we snuggled down there out of the wind, she learned a score of words.
5 The road was clear and white, and the groom's three blacks went like the wind.
6 Yulka forgot to give me back my comforter, and I had to drive home directly against the wind.
7 The wind was so strong that I had to hold my hat on, and the girls' skirts were blown out before them.
8 The wind shook the doors and windows impatiently, then swept on again, singing through the big spaces.
9 Antonia and I sat erect, but I held the reins clumsily, and my eyes were blinded by the wind a good deal of the time.
10 The wind had the burning taste of fresh snow; my throat and nostrils smarted as if someone had opened a hartshorn bottle.
11 Blue puffs of smoke came from the stovepipe that stuck out through the grass and snow, but the wind whisked them roughly away.
12 I was lying in a little room, scarcely larger than the bed that held me, and the window-shade at my head was flapping softly in a warm wind.
13 There in the sheltered draw-bottom the wind did not blow very hard, but I could hear it singing its humming tune up on the level, and I could see the tall grasses wave.
14 All about us the snow was crusted in shallow terraces, with tracings like ripple-marks at the edges, curly waves that were the actual impression of the stinging lash in the wind.
15 It was surrounded by a triple enclosure; the wire fence, then the hedge of thorny locusts, then the mulberry hedge which kept out the hot winds of summer and held fast to the protecting snows of winter.
16 At some distance behind the house were an ash grove and two orchards: a cherry orchard, with gooseberry and currant bushes between the rows, and an apple orchard, sheltered by a high hedge from the hot winds.
17 Perhaps the glide of long railway travel was still with me, for more than anything else I felt motion in the landscape; in the fresh, easy-blowing morning wind, and in the earth itself, as if the shaggy grass were a sort of loose hide, and underneath it herds of wild buffalo were galloping, galloping.
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