The Land's End is, I believe, the windiest place in the world, and when I opened the window and threw the scraps out the wind would catch and whirl them away like so many feathers over the garden wall, and I could not see what became of them.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
It is a high, dry, bare, scorched, and windy country, and Johannesburg, its centre, stands in one of the highest, driest, and windiest spots, on the south slope of the Witwatersrand ridge, whose top rises some 150 feet above the business quarters.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
Chicago, she said, was a windy place, and Mr. Bilton passed in its windiest month.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim