And now let the avalanche of blessing come upon your bodies, your minds, your souls, your homes, your churches, and your city.
There were vistas of snow-peak and avalanche shed, and always there were tunnels.
They were frequently in darkness; and between the tunnels were long lines of granite avalanche sheds.
It was a little upland châlet, which the people had deserted for the autumn and winter; and meantime a mud avalanche had taken possession, and covered the floor to a depth of several inches.
The avalanche didn’t flatten out and shoot down the gorge in loose masses, as I’ve seen ‘em do, but just stuck together and come like one solid half of the mountain itself.
I s’pose it war a little more than a hundred yards wide at the top, whar the upper part of the biggest kind of an avalanche had formed.
If the avalanche was hangin’, as it seemed to be, the shakin’ of the air made by our pistols would set it loose and start it down the valley after me.
If I catched one of my toes in the snow crust I would tumble, and before I could help myself the avalanche would squelch me.
In that second or two I seen the whole avalanche under way, hardly a hundred yards off, and it war comin’ for me like a railroad train, and goin’ faster every second.
I turned to Kit and the other fellers and offered to bet a beaver skin that I could start even with the avalanche and beat it down into the valley.
But they were too late," she ended with a pathetic sigh, "for the avalanche was upon them before they reached it.
Five hundred people lay in the excursion train, unconscious of this avalanche rolling down upon them.
Again they went in, lifting a very avalanche over the stacks, packing the banks of the cut with walls hard as ice.
At that great height the effect was that of peering over the upper lip of an avalanche of masonry on the point of tumbling headlong down a mountainside to crush all beneath it.
The avalanche of centuries has long buried memory and ambition in those you are pleased to call Romans.
The avalanche which had been started could not be stopped.
If now he quailed before the impending issue, the mighty avalanche he had started would hurl him to swift and certain doom.
But this avalanche occurred over half a century ago, and may be it is too old-fashioned to recall its story, though it will long live in historic record as destroying four villages, and overwhelming five hundred of their inhabitants.
The sole trace of it now is the track of the avalanche on the side of the mountain, and some few huge bowlders piled together here and there in the valley, which have not been covered by the hand of time with vegetation.
Then it was that he saw what a small thing had started the avalanche of calamity thundering down upon him, and he smarted with remorse.
An avalanche had fallen, not upon Rudy and his uncle, but very near them.
Simultaneously the German Government set in motion anavalanche of racial feeling to play off against the just and moderate measures taken by other powers to checkmate Austrian aggression.
In due time the bloodthirsty Pecksniff who had set the avalanche in motion appeared to express his holy indignation.
In a word, the principles underlying saigner à blanc have grown during the past four decades into a possible avalanche possessing huge potential energy; the momentum was given to it in August, 1914.
Shouldered my rifle and climbed that awful stretch of snow-covered slide rock at the imminent peril of starting an avalanche and destroying the whole town.
Pushing straight past the lake, through almost impenetrable thickets of whipping willows that fight like live things to guard from vandal footsteps what lies beyond, the journey reaches its climax in Avalanche Basin.
The avalanche started slowly and was evidently no mere surface slide.
As Slone leaped within roping distance the avalanche slipped a foot or two, halted, slipped once more, and slowly started again with that low roar.
The little avalanche stopped of its own accord, and then Slone dragged Nagger on down and down, presently to come to the end of the steep descent.
He felt the successive steppes of the slope, and then the long incline below, and then the checking and rising and spreading of the avalanche as it slowed down on the level.
Was it a storm or an avalanche slipping or falling water?
The avalanche slipped with little jerks, as if treacherously loosing its hold for a long plunge.
He'll be ridin' an avalanchepretty soon," muttered Slone.
It was unreal, that sight--unreal like the slow, grinding movement of the avalanche under him.
The west side camps are at Bowman Lake, Fish Creek, Avalanche Creek, and Lake McDonald.
There is a good automobile road to within 3 miles of Avalanche Lake.
Near the upper end of the camp, Avalanche Creek has cut a deep, narrow gorge through brilliant red argillite.
While I had been absorbed in his predicament, my avalanche augmented itself by slide on slide, perhaps loosened by his; and before I knew it, I was sailing down with ever-increasing momentum.
A huge rock had, as if forcibly detaching itself, flown off from the avalancheand buried itself in the ground only a few feet beyond Harry and Pearl, and more than one uprooted tree lay near them.
And the spring that had arisen glorious in Pearl's heart when she had realized that she and Harry were prisoners of the avalanche was still resurgent.
Maggie objected to taking such a vast sum of money for so slight a service; but Mr. Checkynshaw's mandate was imperative, and he departed, leaving her bewildered at the sudden fortune which had come down like an avalanche upon her.
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