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Vocabulary

"bent against the weather"

What does it mean?

.....the scattered people hurrying home for supper, their figures bent against the weather
  

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The weather was bad, perhaps raining and windy, so they were walking with their heads down, and perhaps hunched a little, to try to shield their faces from the wind and rain.

  • The weather was bad, perhaps raining and windy, so they were walking with their heads down, and perhaps hunched a little, to try to shield their faces from the wind and rain.
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The weather was bad, perhaps raining and windy, so they were walking with their heads down, and perhaps hunched a little, to try to shield their faces from the wind and rain.

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