Everybody knows that Alleghany county is, or used to be, a great place for whirlwinds and tornadoes.

These windfalls were neither more nor less than the old tracks of these whirlwinds and tornadoes, that had swept down the forest trees.

The winds of June, which whipped the dust of Water Street into miniature whirlwinds under the noses of the horses, were heavy with the unmistakable perfume of wild roses.

The extremely level character of the country between the ranges to the east and north, and the immense columns of red sand or dust which were raised by whirlwinds to a height of 200 to 500 feet, gave but little hope of finding water in that direction.

The vestry stands on one side of the chancel, and in the doorway of it there is a red curtain, intended to keep out the tail end of whirlwinds and draughts in general.

And the cold moon-beam gilds her flinty bed; While round the rifted rocks hoarse whirlwinds breathe, And dark with thunder sail the clouds beneath.

Round the dark craggs the murmuring whirlwinds blow, Woods groan above, and waters roar below; As o'er the steeps with pausing foot she moves, The pitying Dryads shriek amid their groves; 445 She flies,she stops,she pantsshe looks behind, And hears a demon howl in every wind.

His wishes are whirlwinds, which breathed forth return into himself, and make him a most giddy and tottering vessel.

Did roaring whirlwinds sweep us from the ramparts?

"The Gulf of Tonquin and the adjacent seas are remarkable for dreadful whirlwinds, called 'typhons.'

They come down in sudden whirlwinds, with the violence of a waterspout, and in a few minutes whole villages are buried....

Those whirlwinds would come all unannounced; when Ann seemed most Ann, playing with Worth, perhaps wearing one of the prettiest dresses and smilingly listening to something Wayne was telling her had happened over at the shops.

In the trenches our men cowered at first, listening in awe to the rushing whirlwinds of the shells' passage over their heads, the roar of the cannonade behind them, the crash and boom of the bursting shells in front, the shriek and whirr of flying splinters, the splintering crash of the shattering trees.

Admiring audiences are told that "gentle women are the ministering angels, sent by the wisdom of God to be the comforters of mankind upon earth, as the beloved of our hearths and homes; that the world, without the gentle hand of woman to alleviate our sorrows, would be a dark and dreary solitude swept by the whirlwinds of despair."

Jehovah shall blow a blast upon a trumpet, And travel on the whirlwinds of the south.

And at that moment hurricanes and whirlwinds began to blow.

Relentless walls and bolts obstruct my way, And, guards as careless, and as deaf as they; Or to my James thro' whirlwinds I would, go, Thro' burning deserts, and o'er alps of snow, Pass spacious roaring, oceans undismay'd, And think the mighty dangers well repaid.

The view annexed represents the moment when the alligator received the first shot on shore; the singular character of Sea Range is also shown, and the small whirlwinds I have alluded to, as having the appearance of smoke.

The dust is waltzing in white whirlwinds along the road.

Tired of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air; pursues the flying storm; Rides on the volleyed lightning through the heavens; Or, yoked with whirlwinds and the northern blast, Sweeps the long tract of day.

The whirlwinds and tempests in fury raved round it, And the rains fell in floods, as if they would drown it.

In the month of June of this same year occurred a frightful tempest; whirlwinds reaching to the skies uprooted the largest trees that were swept within their vortex.

"Though one of the seas, I am one more used to the calm latitudes than to these whirlwinds of war.

But all, statesmen, and chieftains, and humble citizens, are being swept along upon the whirlwinds of passion; all hearts are ablaze with the fiery magnificence of war, and none will take warning till the land shall be desolate, and thousands, stricken in their prime, shall be sleepingwhere

Great sprawling dry lakes ominous in their very placidity; dust dry, with little whirlwinds scurrying over them and mirages that lie to you most convincingly, painting water where there is only clay dust.