They flung themselves upon the ground: there were the thundering roar of an earthquake, coupled with a deafening clatter, as though the whole place were falling about their ears, and a whirling hurricane of hot air and steam.

The whole appearance of nature resembled those solemn preludes to earthquakes and hurricanes in the West Indies, from which the east in general is providentially free.

how many of this age are swept away before me: six thousand have been mowed down at once by the late hurricane at Barbadoes alone!

At length, when she had advanced as far as St. Abb's Head, the wind having increased to a hurricane from N.N.E., the engineer reported the appalling fact that the machinery would work no longer.

The tide was at the full, and the wind was blowing a hurricane on shore, so that the wreck was driven far up on the beach, and at low tide it was high and dry.

The dread of hurricanes to the people of Barbadoes is tolerable in comparison with the irrepressible apprehensions of bloody rebellions.

One, Nathaniel, was lost with his ship, the Thunderer, in a hurricane off Jamaica in 1780.

Some twenty hours they stood it, then they rose and plunged ahead of the hurricane like bewildered cattle.

I know that thou art so abandoned a man, that to give thee the best reasons in the world against what thou hast once resolved upon will be but acting the madman whom once we saw trying to buffet down a hurricane with his hat.

Trade-wind Hurricanes en the Atlantic Coast of Morocco.

] CHAPTER XLI WEST INDIAN HURRICANES IN PUERTO RICO FROM 1515 TO 1899 Whoever has witnessed the awful magnificence of what the primitive inhabitants of the West Indian islands called ou-ra-cán, will never forget the sense of his own utter nothingness and absolute helplessness.

It soon grew dark; a furious storm came up and swept like a hurricane along the shore.

Trade-wind Hurricanes on the Atlantic Coast of Morocco.

230 Safe in thy shelter, let disaster roll Eternal hurricanes around my soul:

A painter is a pretty butterfly for fine weather; what is he to do with his flimsy wings in such a hurricane as this?" "I think I understand you, Brother Henry.

The Favourite had experienced a hurricane* off Mangaia Island, the natives of which gave notice of its approach; and at Tahiti Captain Sullivan was also told that he might expect a hurricane before long.

But she's a heavy old craft, and that's a fact, though even now she might do a knot or two an hour if she had a hurricane behind her.

The Spanish settlers also learned to foretell the approach of a hurricane by the sulphurous exhalations of the earth, but especially by the incessant neighing of horses, bellowing of cattle, and general restlessness of these animals, who seem to acquire a presentiment of the coming danger.

Just at twilight they heard a faint shout again and the faint shout in reply, telling them the pursuit was maintained, but the night fortunately proved to be very dark, and, an hour or two later, they came to a heavy windrow, the result of some old hurricane into which they drew for shelter and rest.