They scared at something and started, I heard one little squall, And hell-to-split over the prairie Went team, Little Breeches and all.

the wind mostly from some western point; there were occasional showers, and the clouds in the eastern horizon resumed their threatening appearance, bringing some hard squalls, and rain from that quarter.

At this anchorage we experienced another squall, similar to that off Cape Preston, but not so severe; the sand was blown over us from the shore, although we were at least two miles distant from it.

The night was anything but favourable for sailing among islands, being very hazy, with passing rain squalls.

At 3.0 a.m. there was a slight shower, and at 6.0 a.m. proceeded down the river, having dragged the boats over the shingle bank at Steep Head, where there was scarcely one inch of water; halted at the creek where the timber had been cut, to procure water for breakfast, and then sailed down the river and encountered a heavy squall, with thunder and lightning, just as we approached the camp; the rain continued nearly throughout the night.

They braced the yards a little to starboard, hauled the foretopmast staysail sheet well aft, and the captain, thinking he had everything snug, stood looking over the weather rails, watching the approaching squall.

At first all seemed to go on very well; but just as he was about to lay hold of the gaudy prize, there arose a sudden squall, which threw both him and his supporters into confusion, and the whole living pyramid came to the ground together.

I do not like these sudden squalls, and I never liked this boating; indeed, I never did.

She lurched heavily under the sea that was now getting up, and, a squall striking her, her lee guns were completely buried.

"One who has trifled with the first and scribbled in the last too often, not to know how to meet a squall, whether it be seen in the clouds or only on the face of man.

All day long of June 6th the Wolverine, baffled by patches of mist and moving rain-squalls, patrolled the empty seas without sighting the lost schooner.

This, at least, is what the enemy states in his attack, and if this be true, it can hardly be doubled that Camden had sailed too long in fair weather, or that he needed a squall to recall him to the duties of the helm.

A heavy black cloud was on the horizon, portending an approaching squall, and the barque was fast fading from sight.

Appearances such as these frequently precede the squall some days, but coming gradually nearer (to the westward).

The mistral was raging therea fierce squall which bent the secular cypresses like straws.

Halliwell says, "a squall.

You have seen her, at many times, Captain Ludlowin squalls and calms; with her wings abroad, and her pinions shut; by day and night; near and far; fair and foul;and I ask you, with a seaman's frankness, is she not a toy to fill a seaman's heart?"

About sunset the clouds gathered thick over the hills which we had left, and a thunderstorm broke, its preliminary squall throwing the crews of our fleet into a fearful fuss, and sending them on to the bank with extra ropes and holdfasts to make all secure.

'God grant I may be right; but neither between the Tropics nor on the Line have I witnessed a severer squall than this!

When dinner was almost done the nurse came in with a child of a year old in her arms, who immediately spied me, and began a squall that you might have heard from London Bridge to Chelsea, after the usual oratory of infants, to get me for a plaything.

The wind blew yelling squalls along the streets.

The pirates of the Baltic were wrestling with the storms of the wild Cattegat and braving the sleety squalls of the Skager Rack, stretching far out from the land to colonize Iceland and the Faroes, to plant a mysteriously lost nation in Eastern Greenland, and to leave strange traces of themselves by the vine-clad shores of Narraganset Bay.

About midnight our position was rendered worse by the springing up of a strong wind, which, together with incessant flashes of lightning, caused us to expect another squall; luckily, however, morning broke, and we escaped both the storm and the islands.

I never shall forget a white squall in the Mediterranean, for all this splendour.'

He let go and let out a squall.