159 examples of cyclones in sentences

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Steam and machinery, like cyclones, carried away her industries, and nothing was left to her but odds and ends of occupations.

"I come from Kansas, where we have cyclones.

No summer cyclones, no winter blizzards, no cloudbursts or bad thunderstorms.

Talk about your earthquakes and cyclones, I don't think anything could beat that scare you gave them with your old flashlight stunt, Will."

If you were in the profession you'd understand that a fellow values a charm that has carried him safe over Fridays, thirteenths, rotten trapezes and cyclones.

It was still hot and his footsteps raised little cyclones of dust which flew along the road before him, but the oppression in the air was gone, and walking had ceased to be a weariness.

One gathered that a 42-centimeter shell possessed in some degree the freakishness which we associate with the behavior of cyclones.

Your office-windows are lashed with hurricanes; your talk is frequently of cyclones.

Typhoons or cyclones are rare about Tahiti, but squalls are frequent and tidal waves recurrent.

"It was just like these cyclones that is [TR: illegible word] around here in Arkansas, exactly like that.

The westerly winds of the Roaring Forties are generally understood to be a succession of cyclones.

Lockyer's hypothesis supposes that there are some eight or ten cyclones continually revolving at a rate of about 10° of longitude a day, and he imagines them to extend from the 40th parallel to beyond the 60th, thus giving the strong westerly winds in the forties and easterly and southerly in 60° to 70°.

He supposes the surface air intensely cooled over the continental and Barrier areas, and the edge of this cold region lapped by warmer air from the southern limits of Lockyer's cyclones.

The Cyclones, or rotary hurricanes, offer a most inviting field for observation and study, and are an important branch of our subject.

The theory of the Cyclones may be justly considered as original with our countryman, Mr. Redfield.

Analytic system for the measurement of the relative tornado, cyclone and windstorm.

"Earthquakes, volcanic outbreaks, cyclones, sea waves, floods, and a steady rise in temperature to I know not what limit"so prophesied the master mathematician.

"And I don't suppose you'll mind the seasickness after you get used to it," said the considerate Mr. Chalk, "and the storms, and the cyclones, and fogs, and collisions, and all that sort of thing.

He had announced that he cared to take no more chances with thunderstorms and cyclones, so Sally had arranged comfortable quarters for him in the house, in one of the smaller downstairs rooms, looking out upon the grove.

and 'Zeke' this and that, until I says to myself, 'We're going to have cyclones followed by a heavy frost if I tarry here,' so I pulled my freight to Arizona, till this unnatural condition of things passed away.

In the N. of the group cyclones too are common.

The hurricanes which visit the island, and which obey the general laws of tropical cyclones, are one of the worst scourges of the country.

CYCLONES See Windfalls.

The mother heard a great commotion, as of cyclones mixed up with battering-rams, and she hurried upstairs to discover what was the matter.

159 examples of  cyclones  in sentences