rain-beaten

Her face like a rain-beaten stone on the day she rolled off

Archive 2008-10-01 a. fortis 2008

Her face like a rain-beaten stone on the day she rolled off

The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: A Selfless Scourge tanita davis 2008

She has never, as I, lived away from home long enough to become self-dependent, and hence in her first loss, and all that it involved, she drooped like a rain-beaten lily.

A Changed Man 2006

Here was no living presence, save for the limpets on the rocks, for some old, gray, rain-beaten ram that I might rouse out of a ferny den betwixt two boulders, or for the haunting and the piping of the gulls.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Fenstermacher pointed into the darkness of the rain-beaten lake, where something was surfacing.

Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

His ward, or district, was full of low, rain-beaten cottages crowded together along half-made streets; but

The Titan 2004

The only French attack on the main British line had come in the east, not here in the west, and the only scars in the patchy field of wheat and rye were black marks where some shells had fallen short and scorched the damp and rain-beaten crops.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

The rain had continued to fall during the night, but the villagers had been coming singly and in groups to glance silently at the rain-beaten scrap of paper which was the latest bulletin, and then silently returning to the gate, and disappearing in the darkness only to return later.

The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

On a small headland of the distant island of Lewis an old man stood looking out on a desolate waste of rain-beaten sea.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

The cold, rain-beaten rock on which Jean had spread his own and David's blankets was a poor couch at best.

Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower