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  • Winds died down overnight, allowing crews to burn 30 miles of containment lines between active and unburned areas that create a buffer from the most violent wind-driven runs.

    Arizona Fire Forces More Evacuations Associated Press 2011

  • The view from the tub recess was yellow cliff, gliding birds, wind-driven cloud.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The view from the tub recess was yellow cliff, gliding birds, wind-driven cloud.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The view from the tub recess was yellow cliff, gliding birds, wind-driven cloud.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Or I could position the boat for a slow, quiet wind-driven drift along shore, casting something like a Rapala or a big streamer fly.

    Brown Trout Battle Plan 2009

  • In the spring the water gurgled out from under the massive wind-driven snowdrifts to the west of the house, a permanent feature of living on the lee side of a mountain ridge.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Commuters in the Chicago area faced blustery, wind-driven rain as they waited for trains to take them downtown before dawn.

    Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago AP 2010

  • Commuters in the Chicago area faced blustery, wind-driven rain as they waited for trains to take them downtown before dawn.

    Massive Storm Batters Midwest: Strong Winds, Torrential Rain Hit Chicago AP 2010

  • Winds died down overnight, allowing crews to burn 30 miles of containment lines between active and unburned areas that create a buffer from the most violent wind-driven runs.

    Ariz. fire triggers new evacuations 2011

  • In the spring the water gurgled out from under the massive wind-driven snowdrifts to the west of the house, a permanent feature of living on the lee side of a mountain ridge.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

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