Ahead and behind, the wind-scoured highway stretches black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zebratown] Reference

He returned his attention to the silent wind-scoured ice sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission to Moulokin]

The tundra reached in crisp dunes and a glimpse of wind-scoured frozen lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Circus of Hells]

Nothing moved on the damaged parapet, on the wind-scoured ground outside, or within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]

Beneath the patina of dust, I could see the rose embossed upon his wind-scoured armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Chaos]

He stopped occasionally, let the men rest, and searched the wind-scoured plateau for the sign of a horseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Gold]

They climbed higher, leaving the shelter of the trees to emerge onto a wind-scoured slope of thin grass and treacherous rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

Soon, only the steady strain of moving upward and the dark patches of the barren, wind-scoured rock beneath his feet guided him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song of Time]

At the very bottom, alongside the wind-scoured river, we stopped before high, harsh gray concrete walls decorated with razor wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step on a Crack]

High on a wind-scoured crag, among the peaks east of the Valley of Waykeep, a man knelt beside an ice pool, gazing intently at its surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Thorbardin]

Unconsciously, Sciathan looked down the unpaved track and over the wind-scoured fields, seeking something that would render his loss bearable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exodus From The Long Sun]

Night had nearly fallen by the time I emerged from the top of the serac slope onto the empty, wind-scoured expanse of the high glacial plateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Perhaps an hour later, Adkins still stood in the declining sliver of shade against the west wall, her back to the gritty, wind-scoured salt bricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

These in turn grew stunted, becoming no more man bushes, until at last there was only hearty low scrub and grasses eking out a living amongst the wind-scoured boulders and scree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference

In the wind-scoured high desert that was once the heartland of the Taliban movement, the will and determination of a little-heralded American ally have been undergoing a harsh test.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afstan in US press/CF plan] Reference

If Crozier's sledge teams survived this ice crossing — and kept ahead of the thing following them on the ice — all 105 men would be together on the wind-scoured northwestern coast of the island.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

We slid into the field that was serving as a parking lot, and the man driving the team whoaed his horses to ask if we would like a lift to the barnyard, his Pennsylvania Dutch vowels as flat as the wind-scoured landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dirty Life] Reference

The British decision to go to war for these desolate, wind-scoured, scarcely populated rocky islets 8,000 miles from London was the first marker laid down by a democratic power in the post-Vietnam era to state unambiguously that a free world nation was willing to fight for a principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turmoil and Triumph] Reference

Dayan pulled ten per cent harder than Terra"Dayan, dear gaunt hills and wind-scoured plains, homes nestled in warm orange sunlight, low trees and salt marshes and the pride of a people who had bent desolation to their needs"Where had young Flandry been from, and what memories did he carry to darkness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ensign Flandry]

Bone-bleached my decks, wind-scoured to the graining.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Seas] Reference

The 20-foot drop, from an exposed shelf of jagged rock and wind-scoured ice, bleeds into a.    From Wordnik.com.  [canada.com Top Stories] Reference

Yuma to the Little Colorado had been to him an endless waste of wind-scoured, sun-blasted barrenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Last Man] Reference

Far at the other end it lifted in red, wall-sided buttes where the homes of the Cliff People stuck like honeycombs in the wind-scoured hollows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail Book] Reference

Men, women and children spilt across a wind-scoured field, bending their backs and stabbing at the rain-soaked clay soil with muddied picks and spades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

The national monument Web site has a photo of cornices and includes the warning: "Do not approach the crater rim unless you can find a wind-scoured area where the surface of the rim is visible.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ScrippsNews] Reference

The dunes are full of hiking trails, but one of the best is the challenging Dunes Trail that takes you out along the Sleeping Bear Point through a landscape of wind-scoured dunes and vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

The essence of the state, as the traveller soon discovers, is its mountain ranges, canyons, mesas, buttes and spires - terracotta-reddish, lunar plains of wind-scoured, water-eroded, volcano-blitzed rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Hill's quest has seen him ski 270 days, stand atop 71 mountains and make eight first descents, taking on challenges from one of North America's tallest peaks in the Yukon to wind-scoured volcanoes in Chile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

I'm in a hotel in the wind-scoured heart of Kilbirnie, somewhere under the intricate flight paths of gulls and cut-price airliners, trying to avoid the giant TV screens that show the Black Caps batting order crumbling yet again (I reckon John Bracewell is the worst coach in any sporting code since John Mitchell, and he doesn't even have Mitchell's excuse of non-terrestrial origins).    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading the Maps] Reference

"As Yakus watched, the minidrag settled itself on a nearby wind-scoured boulder and started to preen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snakes Eyes]

She watched her hand, the end of her sublime transparency, curling, clawing at the rampart’s wind-scoured stones as though to tear the castle down, as though beyond her wrist, beyond the cloak, her hand wasn’t a part of her at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urchin’s Dark Kite « A Fly in Amber] Reference

A shimmer of heat ran along wind-scoured edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unicorn Trade]