We want an animal that faces the blizzards and endures the storms.
They are also very hardy indeed, as they take the instinct of the buffalo during the blizzards and storms, and do not drift like native cattle.
He saw the cattle humped and drifting before the wind in the first blizzards of winter, while gray wolves slunk watchfully here and there, their shaggy coats ruffled by the biting wind.
They talked of the old days when Luck was a lad, those old-timers; they talked of trail-herds and of droughts and of floods and blizzards and range wars and the market prices of beef "on the hoof.
They talked ofblizzards and of high water and of short grass and of thunderstorms.
I am afraid the dogs will not pull through; they all look thin and these blizzards do not improve matters.
The absence of strong winds, in comparison with the almost unceasing winter blizzards of the Ross Sea, was a feature of the Weddell Sea that impressed itself upon me during the winter months.
In general the weather was unsettled, blizzards occurring frequently and interrupting communication with the ship across the ice.
All the same, when the first blizzards occurred, the snow blew through many cracks, and every morning the men were covered with a coat of snow and ice.
They had suffered a good deal from the cold, but they had managed to keep out in the open, take a lot of exercise, and pass the long winter as cheerfully as the heavy blizzards and storms allowed.
Blizzards were there, the perpetual blizzards of Arctic peaks.
During the day they halted for a cold lunch while their reindeer fed on a broad plateau, a protected place where they were safe from the wild blizzards of the peaks that loomed far above them.
In Alaska dangers lurk at every turn; rivers too rapid to freeze over and blizzards and wild beasts.
I--er was hoping that Rattlesnake Sam could come down from the mountains before the blizzards set in.
I believe this record of mine has never been beaten in a country infested with Indians and subject to blizzards and other violent weather conditions.
We were sheltered one night from one of the fearful prairie blizzards that make fall and winter terrible.
The ponies' stable was built against the northern side of the hut, and was thus sheltered from the blizzards which always blow here from the south.
We knew there was a beach for we landed upon it, but we never saw it again even in the height of summer, for the winter blizzards formed an ice foot several feet thick.
Thick weather and blizzards had delayed him, and once he had got right off the tracks and had been out from his camp hunting for them.
This has often been done in daylight when the only risks run are those of blizzards which may spring up suddenly and obliterate tracks.
Three days generally see theseblizzards out, and we hoped much from Friday, December 8.
Countless blizzards have swept their drifts over it, but have failed to hide it.
Atkinson never experienced this lull, and having seen the way blizzards will sweep down the Strait though the coastline is comparatively clear and calm, I can understand how he was in the thick of it all the time.
We had been unfortunate in having several severe blizzards, and it was already clear that it was these autumn blizzards more than cold temperatures and soft surfaces which the ponies could not endure.
The nearest approach to healthy sleep we had had for nearly a month was when during blizzards the temperature allowed the warmth of our bodies to thaw some of the ice in our clothing and sleeping-bags into water.
It was a silly risk in view of blizzards and other possibilities, chiefly our own inexperience.
I knew that parties which had come to Cape Crozier in the spring had experienced blizzards which lasted eight or ten days.
Then followed violent blizzards which storm-stayed the party for four days, during which the temperature inside their double tent fell to fifty-six degrees below freezing.
Violent blizzards and knee-deep snow made travel painful enough, but under Rae's exacting leadership the hardships became extreme.
In the middle of October came a series of violent blizzardswhich foretold the coming fate of the ship.
The temperature fell to seventy-two degrees below freezing; the sea ice over which they travelled became of almost incredible roughness; while fearful blizzards sprang up.
Then the pent-up sorrow and disappointment in their hearts burst bounds, and these two lads who had fearlessly faced a wolf pack, and braved the wild blizzards and bitter cold of an arctic winter in the wilderness, broke down and wept.
It is this rapid onslaught from Montana to Texas that produces those notorious blizzards of that section called northers, during which the cattle used to be frozen on the hoof.
When the temperature is low the flakes are very small, being grains and spicules in the severe blizzards of the west and falling as snow-dust in the Arctic.
No fiercer blizzard ever blew out of the home of blizzards than the storms that fell upon us on the southward march.
All the shacks I've seen so far have been stuck up on bald pinnacles where the blizzardswill hit 'em coming and going next winter.
One imagines it cannot continue long as at present, but remembers our proximity to Cape Crozier and the length of the blizzards recorded in that region.
The blizzardsproper seem to be always preceded by an overcast sky in accordance with Simpson's theory.
Blizzards are our bugbear, not only stopping our marches, but the cold damp air takes it out of us.
The weather still looks unsettled, and I fear a succession ofblizzards at this time of year; the wind is strong from the south, and this afternoon has been very helpful with the full sail.
We are giving a good deal of extra food to the animals, and my hope is that they will soon pick up again--but they cannot stand more blizzards in their present state.
If this is so, the only way to get at the seasonal deposition would be to average the heaps deposited and multiply this by the number ofblizzards in the year.
If the blizzards hold off for another three days the crossing should be perfectly safe, but I don't expect Meares to hurry.
For more than nine months we had fought not only the Turks and the Germans in their strongholds, but disease and thirst, the droughts of summer, and the blizzards of winter.
You can imagine the horror of trench life in this region, with the thermometer below freezing-point and the icy blizzards blowing almost daily.
Blizzards swept across the mountains during February, and checked the fighting on the uplands, though it continued to rage in the foothills.
There the winds howled and crooned above him, and fierce blizzards sent the snow swirling about his solitary retreat.
That fierce valley of the Missouri, which belches fitfulblizzards from December to March, is sometimes quiet.
Blizzards raged for days and the passenger schedules were practically abandoned.
Unless the blizzards abated soon, there would be serious trouble.
Weary Willie died for no apparent reason, unless his loss of condition was due to the blizzards we encountered on the depot journey.
The dogs came through the winter very well, and during blizzards they merely coiled themselves up into round balls of fur and let the snow drift over them.
We have got the roof on the shaft now, but in these blizzards the entrance is buried in snow, and we have a job to keep the shaft clear.
The weather was awful, and the passage of the mountain passes in face of the blizzards of snow tried the endurance of the troops to the uttermost.
Heavy snow blizzardsobscured the scene, but the struggle raged fiercely on all sides, the Russians fighting like bulls, as the French said.
With its piercing winds and blizzards on the one hand, and its fierce heats and thirsty wastes on the other, it is apparently the most inhospitable region in the world.
The climate varies from the intolerable heat, to those not accustomed to it, of the southwestern deserts, to the freezingblizzards of the North.
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