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  • What goes with seafood, rum, and howling, wind-lashed nights blacker than a lobster's armpits?

    Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010

  • "The Icelandic nation has been put in a terrible situation," said Helgi Sigurdsson , a 36-year-old journalist voting in the wind-lashed capital, Reykjavik.

    Iceland Rejects Icesave Debt Deal Associated Press 2011

  • This descending motif, like a windswept downpour, is answered by an equally powerful rising motif in the double basses, bassoons and trombones, suggesting wind-lashed whitecaps on Lake Lucerne, where the opera takes place.

    The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • What goes with seafood, rum, and howling, wind-lashed nights blacker than a lobster's armpits?

    Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010

  • I ended up in this sketchy village on a wind-lashed coast, it had a name like Quaassoorrqq.

    Short story: Barthelme by Joanna Kavenna 2011

  • The evening starts with a cacophony of ships' foghorns and whistles, sea-shanties bridge the scene changes and the recovery of Mat's body from the storm becomes as thrilling as the opening of The Tempest with the wind-lashed stage precipitously rising and falling.

    Anna Christie – review 2011

  • He doted on his family, especially on his sons, and spent winters snug and indolent, wrapped in thick buffalo robes by the fire in his tipi, a brilliant piece of architectural design that required only a small fire to keep him warm even during the frigid, wind-lashed plains winters.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • It was a distinct relief to her to call an end to the day's scouting when pelting, wind-lashed rain limited visibility and made telltagging impossible.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • All in all, a much more pleasant way of spending the day than going out into the wind-lashed rain, which is how we spent a few minutes today while the dogs took care of their business.

    Rain on my parade Johnny Pez 2010

  • At the other end of the spectrum, works such as Porcellis's "Dutch Ships in a Gale" capture the fragility of all that oak, hemp and canvas — here the wind-lashed sails of a foundering merchant vessel look like shredded silk.

    Painting the High Seas Barrymore Lawrence Scherer 2009

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