I gathered my belongings and headed into beating wind.

Down deep, there was no howling wind to hear, no beating wind when the trough of a wave exposed the chamber to the atmosphere.

I feared greatly that she might die in the night; but day broke, cold and cheerless, with the same clouded sky and beating wind and roaring seas.

He stood for a while, brushing sand and bits of grass from his sodden clothes, then turned to walk back in the direction he'd come from, through the falling rain and the beating wind.