All around this hamlet and others nearby, the men and women who farmed bananas, plantains, sugar cane, beans and breadfruit stare at fields swept of trees, still flooded or coated with river muck that will probably kill off whatever plants are left.
Dragged inland by an incomprehensible power, she had managed to hold on to Adi until she was swept against a tree and, for a dark, swooning moment, felt her boy underwater and her grip weaken.
"Ogunquit Cliff," a 1907 canvas, pictures a wind-swept tree clinging tenuously to the crag, perhaps an allegory of Down East stubbornness in the face of a harsh environment.
But the cucumber trees swept past, to be replaced by rickety-looking stone huts, thatched with bleached palm leaves.
The lower limbs of these trees swept down close to the ground, forming a bathing bower on two sides of the drum.
Homes just north of Arab were swept completely away, trees were ripped from the ground and never recovered, and a storage trailer was thrown 100 yards.
More than a football field's worth of marsh is swept away every year, tree-by-tree, reed-by-reed.
Particles deposited on the ciliated tracheobronchial epithelium are swept up the bronchial tree out of the lung and swallowed with half-lives on the order of 3 hr in never-smokers (Möller et al. 2004).
One species with woody host plants was excluded, as we assumed that it had been swept off its host tree by wind and was not a true member of the grassland fauna.
Cedar trees were uprooted, while fruit and ornamental trees were swept out to sea.
Every night, they are swept away from the trees and sink to the muddy bottom of the open lagoon.
