As the canoe came in sight of the cove they saw the wreck and signalled back to the steamer, which had answered by a blast on her whistle.
There was a great commotion of loudly spoken orders, the tramping of feet, the creaking of blocks, the rush and roar of the sea and the howling of the blast through the rigging.
Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the last blast which tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak.
The instant he said the word, a tremendous blast of wind crashed in a board of the wall, and swept the clothes off Diamond.
But as she spoke there came a great blast of wind through the arch, and set the barrel rolling.
Nor did he recover until the great blast that followed, having torn some tiles off the roof, sent a spout of wind down into his bed and over his face, which brought him wide awake, and gave him back his courage.
Then there came a blast of wind, and the rain followed in straight-pouring lines, as if out of a watering-pot.
From the mouth of the crab’s head, anotherblast went to the middle of the space between the leopard and the lion; and from the stag’s head a similar blast to the middle of the space between the leopard and the bear .
From it a blast produced a movement from west to east in the opposite direction to the movement of the firmament.
The source of the blastis represented in the Lucca MS.
But this blast did not give forth his breath earthward as did the other winds, but instead thereof it governed the course of the planets.
Above the head of the figure in the zone of the purus aether, I saw the head of the leopard emitting a blast from its mouth, and on the right side of the mouth the blast, curving itself somewhat backwards, was formed into a crab’s head .
Mine is the blast of the thundered word by which all things were made.
A second blast rang out, and down the gangway-deck came Vigitello and two of his mates, all three armed with long whips of bullock-hide, shouting to the slaves to make ready.
The trumpets ceased for an instant, then wound a fresh imperious blast and fell permanently silent.
But the moral tempest may be too violent for poetry--as the Civil War of the Roses appeared to blast it and all letters--that of the Parliament contrariwise.
His material was not soluble by a blast of ministerial breath.
Human hunters usually had guns that could blast and destroy from a distance; but even an animal intelligence could perceive that these three seemed to be without this means of inflicting death.
They went round to the buildings where the fires were banked up and glowing or smouldering, ready to be brought under the influence of the blast next day and fanned to white heat.
Who, like him, could give a full and compleat account of the Deluge, whether it was a meer vindictive, a blast from Heaven, wrought by a supernatural power in the way of miracle?
May, and, with aspirations high, feel our ardor cooled by a blast of ice and a blinding fall of snow.
No winter is known in his warm heart, no piercing blast can freeze the fountain of his song.
The restless wind sweeps with pitiless blast through shivering trees and over bleak hills, from whose crests, like a great white veil, the clouds of hoary flakes are lifted and drawn along by the gale.
Our lucky star has sent us a lawyer who is no trifler, and who, if I am not very much mistaken, would like very much to leave Saigon with a loud blast of trumpets.
Behind the Monument, the service had a flavour of damaged oranges, which, a little farther down towards the river, tempered into herrings, and gradually toned into a cosmopolitan blast of fish.
The stormy blastis strong, but mightier still The calm that binds the storm beneath its peaceful will.
Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.
Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealed, The blast of triumph o'er thy grave.
And though the biting blast Of Eurus stiffen nature's juicy veins, Good cheer!
They faced the terrors of the New England northeastblast and starved in the wilderness in order that we might live in freedom.
A sailing ship, dependent upon the wind, hugged the breeze or was driven before the blastacross the stormy North Atlantic.
They braved the wintry blast of Plymouth, but they never knew the everlasting wind of the United States Senate.
By the blast of God he perishes, and is consumed by the breath of his nostrils.
I will blast him, cross him, disappoint him, and cast him down, and will set myself against him in all that he putteth his hand unto.
But I say, the life of a slave will be counted a life too good for Mansoul now; blood, blood, nothing but blood is in everyblast of Shaddai's trumpet against poor Mansoul now.
Mr Mackay made a motion up at the fragments of the main trysail, which, it may be remembered, had been carried away by the first blast of the typhoon.
These planes were placed opposite a blast from a fan issuing from a wooden pipe 18 in.
The pressure of the blast varied from 6/10 to 1 in.
Department a blast in the papers about sending misdirected letters of mine back to the writers for reshipment, and got a blast in return, through a New York daily, from the New York postmaster.
An untried judge had come to hold the assizes; he had come without the blast of a trumpet, but the compact assemblage awaited with every demonstration of joy his presence upon the bench.
It was pleasantly situated on a small bay, whose northern extremity was sheltered from the arctic blast by a gentle rising ground clothed with wood.
It was not as the blast before Jericho; nevertheless, it told that the Lord of Hosts was for us.
The multitude from all quarters hurried to the great circus, amid the clash of ten thousand cymbals and the blast of innumerable trumpets.
All it needs to complete the mining camp aspect of the place is a row of gambling hells in full blast under the temporary electric lights that gaudily illuminate the centre of the town.
Then launched they to the blast Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us: And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us.
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