Weather Beaten

If I look into the mirror, I still see the eighteen - or nineteen-year-old behind my weather-beaten mug. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We had just finished breakfast and were sitting around a weather-beaten redwood picnic table under a large, beautiful grapefruit tree. ❋ Dorian De Wind (2011)

Nonetheless, we need to make use of all available political, diplomatic, economic and legal channels to prevent Venezuela from developing a nuclear weapons capability, going rogue, upsetting the balance of the Latin American NWFZ, and punching yet another hole in an already weather-beaten global nonproliferation framework. ❋ Rizwan Ladha (2010)

But it was her face, wrinkled, withered and weather-beaten, surrounded by an aureole of unkempt and straggling wisps of greyish hair, that caught and held me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You watch him intently, fascinated by this strange, weather-beaten man getting high in front of you. ❋ Max Brallier (2011)

From here I could locate the weather-beaten mounds of desiccated earth known as the Badlands. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2011)

From the roof, they could see the entire yard and down the street, past the weather-beaten houses to the VFW at the end of the block, where oldsters gathered to play bingo and swap stories. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

Illustrator Ben Galbraith took inspiration from the ranches of his native New Zealand to conjure the comical settlement, with its weather-beaten clapboard, corrugated-tin roofing and long-legged, big-mustachioed inhabitants. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2011)

So old and weather-beaten was his buckskin shirt that ragged filaments, here and there, showed where proud fringes once had been. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We were ushered to a room off the lobby under the watchful eyes of a weather-beaten soldier who seemed suspicious of Cooley's tape recorder. ❋ George Melloan (2011)

The perplexed expression on his weather-beaten features looked out of place. ❋ J.F. Lewis (2011)

Down in the bric-a-brac bargain basement one item did catch my imagination, and even at its suggested £450 price tag I'd be sorely tempted to bid for a weather-beaten brown leather panel-stitched rugby ball signed by each of the 1971 British Lions touring party to New Zealand. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Disaster stalked before me incarnate in the form of that gold-earringed, weather-beaten son of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The slightly weather-beaten interior seemed to suit the cheerful group that piled in, heading, predictably, for a cabinet that housed a particularly rare vintage of something golden and strong-smelling. ❋ Christie Golden (2011)

They drove to the site, a weather-beaten bungalow near the boardwalk. ❋ Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi (2011)

And then I followed him out and sat beside him on an old couch covered with a wool blanket in front of a low weather-beaten coffee table. ❋ Cara Hoffman (2011)

Families lived in small houses, what real estate agents might call cottages or bungalows somewhere else, with weather-beaten exteriors ringed by short cyclone fences, or in apartments with rusting barbeques on the porches. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

Here was no blue-jacketed, weather-beaten son of the sea, but a soft-spoken gentleman, for all the world the type of successful business man one meets in all the clubs. ❋ Unknown (2010)