With a vertical trunk and arching canopy, the tree resembles a parasol that's been blown inside out.
By the time play was halted, flagsticks were bending, umbrellas were being blown inside out, and players knew they were in for another frustrating Pebble Beach experience.
A few people are out braving the wind, including many dog walkers, while the number of people carrying around umbrellas that have been blown inside out is unusually high.
The scene has been set, where else but on his favourite stamping ground (trudging ground might be a better word), the bare, dark, rain-sodden, wind-lashed heath five miles from Casterbridge (Dorchester to you), where "the tails of little birds trying to roost on some scraggy thorn were blown inside out like umbrellas".
The height of complexity was reached when a bulb of glass decorated with cables or threads running obliquely in one direction was blown inside a second bulb with threads twisted in the other direction.
On Madison Avenue, umbrellas are blowing inside out, and the snow, as it strikes the warm sidewalk, turns into slush.
Another glass must have been blown inside the existing bowl, in such a way that the two fused, leaving the gold leaf sandwiched between two layers of glass.
So the pivotal scene is when Audrey is blown inside out when she is succumbing for the second time to encephalitis lethargica that is when the novel inverts.
Lemus says that he tried to explain to them that he and Roldan were merely attempting to extinguish the fire, which had apparently resulted when some of the debris in the street was blown inside the entrance way, to the apartment build ing.
Aides have regularly gone to war over key policy objectives and left Hill Republicans guessing which way the wind was blowing inside the West Wing.
