I climbed spiral stairs to the viewing platform in the apex, where rain thrashed against the glass walls, and gazed at the windswept fields outside.

I was the only thing moving except the rattles of the snake, which sounded awfully loud on that windswept field.

The couple, both avid environmentalists, began spending summers and weekends amid the island's forests, rolling hills, windswept fields and rich bird and animal life.

(The restroom was a nearby windswept field where men went off to one part and women to another.)

Storm-laden clouds hung over windswept fields of grain the day we were there, while arrows of golden light fell on a browsing mare and her foal.

I left the confessional, said my penance and went out into the wintry windswept fields.

To dive into the windswept fields that seem to roll on forever is to discover all sorts of concealment.

Another - an Andrew Wyeth-like depiction of "Fresh Kills" - had a cyclist riding through a windswept golden field.

Was then denounced by his own soldiers who had to survive on rainwater in the windswept fields.

Where the smokestacks and assembly lines of giant factories were supposed to rise, there are only windswept fields, stretching unbroken to the horizon.