wind-broken

However, pulled trees tended to break lower on the stem than wind-broken trees.

We couldn't afford one crippled or wind-broken horse.

Put down like a wind-broken horse, Macurdy guessed.

But Gaspare was wheezing like a wind-broken horse.

Some had fallen to the ground where they flailed around on the snow like tiny wind-broken umbrellas, using the thumbs at the top joint of their wings to gain their balance.

He climbed the rain-soaked ratlines, negotiated the lubbers hole and trained his telescope north, but he could see nothing except a wind-broken sea and a mass of clouds on the horizon.

When I came down off the cap rock riding a wind-broken bronc, half of New Mexico must have been trailin' behind me, all ready to shake out a loop for a hanging.

Kangaroo mice inhabited the grass at the water verge; a hawk owl bounced its droning call into the cliff shadows; the wind-broken hiss of a sandfall came from the open bled.

O'Day, breathing like a leaky accordion, but game as any wind-broken badger, met Tony somewhere near the middle of the ring; and this time no tantalizing left hand plumped into his face.

Once more, as had happened so much recently, John Fawley surprised his brother by becoming as garrulous as he had been when he sold that dry cow, wind-broken horse, and useless land title to Mr. Adam Arno, and Questor understood.

He raised his arm, and his company rustled like leaves, waiting the order to march; and one of the sofor led the messenger's wind-broken horse to one side, and the king's procession passed the courtyard gate, and went down the king's way and beyond the City walls to where the army awaited them.