This "spindrift" (6) cuts to the marrow with its chilling mist, its clarifying ambiguity. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The air was filled with spindrift like a fog or spray. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Finally, acknowledge that you're going to miss things, because your head is going to wind up very cluttered with spindrift and nonsense and other things that didn't make the page. ❋ Seanan_mcguire (2009)
In the spindrift orb to grow or char strange wings. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)
He does control a lot of things, but so much of it takes time to enact that really, for much of his job, he is helpless in the spindrift of what the previous administration did. ❋ Chitin (2006)
Each boxcar had an identical little vortex of spindrift coming off the trailing edge of the roof – really pretty under the slate gray dawn. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Irving struggled out through a foot of new spindrift under the canvas pyramid, lantern blowing back toward his face, as he searched for one of the men not swinging an axe in the darkness. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
But even though the men work hours every day shoveling avenues through the foot or so of snow left for insulation on deck, hacking away ice with picks and chisels, clearing out the spindrift that has come under the canvas roof, and finally putting lines of sand down for traction, there always remains a glaze of ice. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
They could see it through the spindrift and fog and pelting hail. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
We were close to the land as the morning approached, but could see nothing of it through the snow and spindrift. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Purgle; and on the morrow about noon, with the bay white with spindrift and the wind so strong that one could scarcely stand against it, they got up steam and skulked under the land as far as ❋ Unknown (2005)
The long, peaceful swells had changed into angry, choppy waves from the tops of which the spindrift streamed in long stinging lashes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And the drumming we heard as of hollow beaten metal worlds, the shouting tempests of cannonading stars, was the breaking of these incandescent crests, the falling of the lightning spindrift, the rhythmic impact of the lanced rays upon the glimmering mountain that reeled and trembled as they struck it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Again the voice trailed into silence; returned, word and phrase pouring forth disconnected, with a curious and turbulent rhythm, like rushing wave crests linked by half-seen threads of the spindrift, vocal fragments of thought swiftly assembled by some subtle faculty of the mind as they fell into a coherent, incredible message. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It whirled with surges whose racing crests were smiting incandescences; it was threaded with a spindrift of lightnings; it was trodden by dervish mists of molten flame thrust through with forests of lances of living light. ❋ Unknown (2004)
