29 adjectives to describe avalanches

But as soon as the storm is over, and the sun shines, the snow at once begins to shift and settle and fall from the branches in miniature avalanches, and the white forest soon becomes green again.

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I remember noticing the distress of a pair of robins during the violent earthquake of the year 1872, when the pines of the Valley, with strange movements, flapped and waved their branches, and beetling rock-brows came thundering down to the meadows in tremendous avalanches.

Monster fishes swam the silent main, Stately forests waved their giant branches, Mountains hurled their snowy avalanches, Mammoth creatures stalked across the plain, Nature reveled in grand mysteries; But the little fern was not of these, Did not slumber with the hills and trees, Only grew and waved its wild, sweet way; No one came to note it day by day.

The most dreaded and most terrible avalanches, those of dry, powdery snow, occur only in winter, when sudden squalls and hurricanes of snow throw the whole atmosphere into chaos.

The streets were thronged with men, women, and children, who rushed abroad to witness the approach of the icy avalanche.

The rush becomes more and more violent; it comes nearer, the ground trembles, the trees bend and break with a sharp crack; enormous stones and blocks of ice are carried away like gravel; and the mighty avalanche, with a crash like a train running off the rails over a precipice, drops to the foot of the mountain, destroying, crushing down everything before it, and covering the ground with a bed of snow from thirty to fifty feet deep.

Coming nearer and nearer up that long tunnel of trees, like one of those unescapable things seen in dreams, the little gray spot of moving figures grew to strange proportions"the Germans!"front of that frightful avalanche.

The sound was rushing, like that of an incessant avalanche, attended by cracking noises that resembled the rending of a glacier.

Hellenism was thus expiring from its own inanition, when the inevitable avalanche overwhelmed it from without.

Beneath the swirl of a gown that lay in an iridescent avalanche of sequins about her feet, her foot, tilted to an unbelievable hypothenuse off a cloth-of-silver heel, beat a small and twinkling tattoo, her fingers tattooing, too, along the chair-sides.

On paper, four hundred and fifty thousand men were ready to rush as an irresistible avalanche on the Rhine provinces.

It seemed perfectly marvellous that the heavy vehicle could be safely got over a jagged avalanche of earth and rock piled some eight or ten feet above the roadway, and having an almost sheer drop to the river entirely unguarded for some hundred yards, where the retaining parapet and even some of the road itself had gone.

Those latter I saw with satisfaction, because in case I had to go down they would stop the little avalanches.

Now these two distinct harvests of flood waters were gathered simultaneously and poured out on the plain in one magnificent avalanche.

How easy is it to find politicians ever ready to sniff the incense of popularity at the plausible shrine of a descending franchise!how difficult to find those who, while granting what is just and prudent, have the wisdom to plan, and the courage to dare, measures to arrest a mobular avalanche!

Each branch raises itself when emancipated, thus changing the whole outline of the growth; and the snow beneath is punctured with a thousand little depressions, where the petty avalanches have just buried themselves and disappeared.

The former are solid avalanches, formed of old snow that has almost acquired the consistency of ice.

Trembling, limp and weak, he sank to the divan, overwhelmed, pounded to pieces, it seemed, by that vehement adoration, that caught him up and carried him away like a tumultuous avalanche.

Past them sped a company of cavalry in blue and yellow, bouncing considerably in their saddles, red faces very dusty under their tightly strapped caps, sabres and canteens jangling like an unexpected avalanche of tin-ware in a demoralised pantry.

The capitalist press did yeoman service in this cause by deluging the nation with a veritable avalanche of lies.

As the Master held it up in the sand-lashed dimness, half-gloom and half-light, that formed a kind of aura round the firean aura sheeted through and all about by the aerial avalanches of the sandthe Legionaries got some vague idea of the necklace.

His stentorian anger afforded so material a contrast to the placid environment that Deacon stood dazed under the vocal avalanche, hearing but a blur of objurgation.

We employed the time in trying the flavor of the grapes and peaches of Lombardy, and looking at the groups of travelers who had come down from the Alps with the annual avalanche at this season.

He would almost say to himself, "Beware the pine-tree's withered branch, beware the awful avalanche."

29 adjectives to describe  avalanches