The bighorn sheep that live among the craggy peaks must descend in order to survive, and by November more than 900 sheep concentrate near Dubois on the bare, windswept slopes of Whiskey Mountain.

Contrary to popular local expectations, they had succeeded in growing their crops on a windswept slope 1,000 feet above sea-ievel, they had built up their own goat herd and even had a billy for stud.

The 3,300-acre West Valley site sits on a rural, windswept slope 30 miles south of Buffalo.

He made his way along it, emerged on a windswept slope of frozen snow, bathed in the deep blue shadow of an ice peak.

The cold windswept slopes above the treeline are covered with areas of fellfield.

He came in darkness, leaving his attending band of young initiates to wait on the windswept slopes near the great volcano's summit.

Mr. Massoud, too, is warily optimistic, though his troops have been busy on windswept slopes here doing weary overhauls on their armory of rusting Soviet tanks.

The Theosophical Society began its settlement on the barren and windswept slopes of Point Loma in 1896.

She locked the draw's marvelous eyes with her intense gaze, forced him to look at her, at the same innocent smile he had seen those many years before on a windswept slope in Icewind Dale.

The whole universe of stars hung up in the darkly glittering night sky and gazed down at the small frail figure of a man lying helpless and alone on the frozen windswept slope of an ancient avalanche on Mars.