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Updated: May 8, 2025
Careering madly in a motor car behind a herd of antelope fleeing like wind-blown ribbons across a desert which isn't a desert, past caravans of camels led by picturesque Mongol horsemen, the Twentieth Century suddenly and violently interjected into the Middle Ages, should be contrast and paradox enough for even the most blasé sportsman.
I had often wondered about those lofty-minded animals I had tracked over in the Wild Basin country. Were they still on those wind-blown heights? It seemed incredible that they could stand a whole winter of such bitter buffeting.
He was confident that Ruth's papers and notebooks and pen had been removed by some human agency. And it could not have been a friend who had done this thing. "Didn't you find anything, Tom?" Ruth Fielding asked, as Helen's twin re-entered the summer-house. His long automobile coat glistened with wet and his face was wind-blown.
"Rosalie Dysart's," he said, gazing absently at the lilac-bush in flower as the wind-blown curtain revealed it for a moment. She lifted her dark eyes curiously. He began to stir the ice in his glass with a silver paper-cutter. "She is wonderfully beautiful, isn't she?" said the girl. "Overwhelmingly." Geraldine shrugged and gazed into space.
"Ay, ay," quoth he, "in verity I do!" quoth he. And in verity a did, too. "Take that for striving to make a fool out o' an honest girl! I know thy goings on with Ruth Visor," saith she. "Thou'lt ne'er blind me with thy pretty speecheries." And a was o'er th' palings and out o' sight like a wind-blown leaf.
She gazed at him a moment in wide-eyed amazement, and then without attempting to solve the riddle of his remarks, proceeded to reduce her wind-blown locks to something like their usual law and order.
While he lay there gazing, all at once he would find that his soul was up with the dragon, feeling as it felt, tossing about with it in the torrents of the air. Out at his eyes it would go, traverse the dim stairless space, and sport with the wind-blown monster.
This man might wear a ruff and a velvet doublet, or, better yet, a coat of mail, she reflected, instead of the well-cut but rather worn gray tweeds that clothed him. She was not conscious of her flying hair, or the wind-blown disorder of her skirts.
Sometimes the smoke and the odor come wind-blown into my garden down from the hills behind the town, just to remind me that the cost of burning an adult of my own size is eighty sen, about half a dollar in American money at the present rate of exchange. From the upper balcony of my house, the whole length of a Japanese street, with its rows of little shops, is visible down to the bay.
"Upon the wind-blown mountain spot Chosen and loved as best by her, Watched over by near sun and star, Encompassed by wide skies, she sleeps." Alas that one cannot quote with truth the remaining lines! "And not one jarring murmur creeps Up from the plain her rest to mar."
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