Plumes of spindrift were scouring the top, leaving nothing but a swooping white cleaver of ice. |
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We climb into a headwind that lashes spindrift in our eyes, blurring our vision with sweeping clouds of ice. |
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At the top there was blue sky, but wind enough to lick fine spindrift snow from the lips of waist-deep drifts. |
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The cold, soft spindrift blew into my face as I crouched beside a boulder trying to strap crampons to my boots with frozen fingers. |
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Its fury is unimaginable, white spindrift foaming and tumbling as Christopher shouts orders above the howling wind. |
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The rocks were encased in crusted snow and the wind was driving spindrift across the open slopes. |
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Anachronisms and nautical howlers bombard the reader like spindrift in a Force 10 gale. |
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It's a fine day, the sun shining but the wind blowing spindrift sharp as staples. |
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Everyone in England should see it from the deck of a wooden sailing ship, with a chill on the air and the taste of spindrift on their lips. |
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Sitting on the ledge, looking up at the piles of spindrift snow just waiting to pour down my collar and into my gloves, I realized that I was maybe done for the day. |
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A spindrift of chopped parsley lay on the outer rim of each like green snow. |
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A winning America didn't cut through this vision of brown spindrift and black tides. |
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Together we'd calibrate the rise, as gale forces cause the edges of crest to break into spindrift. |
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As we neared the apex of the col, spindrift lashed at our faces and we hunched our shoulders for protection. |
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In fact, sea air is full of microscopic droplets called spindrift or sea spray. |
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They're Yorkshiremen, you see, and their impressionable parts have been cured over the centuries, like Baffin Island blubber, by spindrift and coal smoke. |
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I worked my way up, dutifully cleaning pro as I went and complaining loudly to no one in particular about the spindrift, steam and melt water on my glasses. |
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Insurances, tinned food and biscuits blossom under their media spindrift. |
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It doesn't matter if you don't know a spindrift from a seaboard — the language of sailing is lovely, both simple and elaborate, unexpectedly sexy and inexhaustibly metaphorical. |
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The ocean waves are broken up by wind, ultimately producing the storm wrack and spindrift of the tempest-tossed sea. |
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Malcolm still plans to take her on summer searches, however, along with his new rescue dog, a little Lakeland collie cur, Spindrift. |
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Erigeron Spindrift makes growing ordinary karvinskianus pointless! |
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