Most of that land is treeless and grim, a place of windswept moors and desolate mountains.
Unlike her sister Emily, who never tired of hiking the windswept moors around the Bronte home in Yorkshire, Charlotte longed for travel and a more active life.
His hands stroked her silken flesh, and he wondered what it would feel like to take her on a windswept moor or in a sheltered forest glen.
The Duke openly kept his mistress at Gordon Castle while the Duchess seems to have preferred assignations with her lover on the windswept moors.
But north of Celyddon, where the forest gave way once more to high, windswept moors, there were many broad valleys well suited for such a venture.
Although "the Gothic" no longer evokes visions of windswept moors or fretful governesses, the rusty coffin lid has not been nailed shut.
Do not be afraid of the cliché here, the brooding house, the wild rocks and windswept moors.
It was a treat compared with these bloody windswept moors, the biting winds and fog!
An ocean fog nibbled at the windswept moors and long white strands that edged the island.
Until the 1950s, Fishers Island had the look of Ireland: stone walls, few trees, and windswept moors.