There was no way of knowing if the prowler in each case had been the one he had saved from the cloudburst or if the prowlers, as a whole, were respecting what a human had done for one of them.
A cloudburst was coming and the sheer-walled canyon down which he hurried had suddenly become a death trap, its sunlit quiet soon to be transformed into roaring destruction.
When the fury of the cloudburst had passed over, and the lightning no longer flickered in their faces, and the thunder growled away in the southeast, the risen water began to show its rolling surface.
Jean had never heard of waterspout or cloudburst or any modern name given to the Force whenever its leash is slipped for a few minutes.
The water from the cloudburst has long since gone to the valley to be absorbed, much of it, in the coarse gravel.
The rain was of almost cloudburst proportions and a wall of water might come sweeping along at any moment.
They crossed the country where Slim had almost been trapped by the cloudburst and found the stream nearly back to normal.
Chapter Twenty The Cloudburst It was on the ride back to the line camp of the Double O and the Box B that Lightning showed her magnificent stamina.
It was because of that cloudburst that I sallied forth,' explained Holmes confidently.
But what were you doing out in an open boat in thecloudburst that lasted all yesterday afternoon?
The natural process of rock rending by the occasional cloudburst may be described as diffission.
The violent cloudburst that is characteristic of the arid lands is a most potent agent in modeling the surface of the ground wherever the rock materials are not too firmly coherent.
Infrequent though they be, the desert rains are of the cloudburst type and in the hills develop torrents whose waters, emerging upon the desert floor, develop lakes in the space of a few minutes or at most hours.
She interprets rightly his first instinctive movement to flee, as an attempt to leave the place, and points out to him that he cannot escape, for outside a frightful cloudburst is in progress.
As the crowd huddled together under the swaying trees, Trench called to Burleigh: "There's been a cloudburst up stream.
A storm had come on suddenly, and a cloudburstup the Walnut was sending a perfect surge of water down around the bend.
The greater part of the cloudburst had flowed down this channel, and where Mead and the cattle had to cross merely wet sand and soaked earth, they would have to swim.
They followed it and found it was the roaring of a high wave coming down an arroyo from a cloudburst farther up in the mountain.
XVII Mrs. Yellett Contends With A Cloudburst The matriarch had delayed longer in moving camp than was consistent with her habitual watchfulness where the interests of the sheep were involved.
Consequently if we, in the East, ever had a real blizzard or a real cloudburst we should be at a considerable loss to find words for an unprofane description.
A genuine cloudburst must be an amazing spectacle.
Down upon the unsuspecting elopers came this miraculous cloudburst of ironical rice, and with it came Little Jimmie Wellington, who lost what little balance he had, and catapulted into their midst like the offspring of an iceberg.
The cloudburst put out the fire instantly, showing that, though animals have superhuman foresight, they don't know everything before the time.
It looked as if we would have a cloudburst that fearful morning.
You may cross and re-cross it many times totally unaware of its existence, but in the cloudburst season it can and does become a terrible agent of destruction.
One time Pete came in here and was telling us fellows about a narrow escape he had from a cloudburst over in the Panamint.
Later he returned with Scotty, but a cloudburst had mauled the country.
Jack Allen bought a burro, loaded his supplies and went back only to discover that a cloudburst had destroyed all his landmarks.
Later when Tom returned prepared to get the gold he found that a cloudburst had filled the canyon with boulders, gravel and silt, removing every landmark and Breyfogle's mine was lost again.
Harvey started from Daggett and had reached Cave Spring in the Avawatz Mountains when he was caught in a cloudburst and lost all his equipment.
A cloudburst would fill this gorge in about a jiffy; but a cloudburst is the last thing on earth you need expect in this land of scant showers and no water.
Once I looked down from the summit of the Canadian Rockies upon a cloudburst in the Bow River Valley.
Kirkby would certainly see the cloudburst coming and he would take the people with him in the camp up on the hogback near it.
Her way was easier than his and he had fallen some distance behind when suddenly there rushed upon him the fact that a frightful and unlooked for cloudburst was about to occur above their heads.
Your old man's claims are stuck up in a canyon where a flying machine couldn't hardly go and about the time he gets his road built another cloudburst will come along and wash it away.
And the mud and rocks that the cloudburst had deposited had been dug out and cleared away from their trees; the ditch had been enlarged, her garden restored and everything left tidy and clean.
It was up on the ridge, where the white granite of the summit came into contact with the burnt limestone and schist; and, of all the rich mines, the Homestake was the best, until the cloudburst came along and spoiled all of them.
Great masses of rock had been shot down from the sides, filling up the pot-holes which the cloudburst had dug; and then, along the sides, a grade had been constructed which gave clearance for loaded trucks.
Yes, and then another road," chimed in Wunpost mockingly, "as soon as the first cloudburst comes by.
But when Campbell came down over the mountain-sheep trail and beheld what the cloudburst had done he spoke what came first into his mind.
Near the mouth of the canyon they struck out over the mud, which the cloudburst had spread out for miles, but now they were across and going down the slope which a thousand previous floods had laid.
There was a cloudburst last week hit into the canyon above me and I just made my getaway in time, and where that water landed you'd think a hydraulic sluice had been washing down the hill for a year.
And there hasn't been a cloudburst in thirteen years--but that makes no difference, of course!
Wilhelmina gazed up the valley and sighed again, for since that terrific cloudburst she had been stranded in Jail Canyon like a piece of driftwood tossed up by the flood.
And if your folks are too religious to use my old road maybe the Lord will send a cloudburst and destroy it.
It rose up and overflowed in a gush of turbid waters, rose still higher and overflowed again; and then it broke loose in a crash like imminent thunder--the cloudburst had conquered the Gorge.
The mud of the cloudburst had turned to hard pudding-stone, which resounded beneath his mule's feet.
It was clouds such as these that had come together before to form the cloudburst which had isolated their mine, and though they now appeared daily she could never escape the fear that once more they would send down their floods.
That was the worst cloudburst I ever heard of out here," he declared, when he reached the porch.
You know you had a horribly rotten storm of thunder and lightning and wind, and a cloudburst down the river valley where our train was stuck in the mud, and the tracks were all lost in the sand-drift and other vile debris.
The first awful effects of the cloudburst were passing, and the water was going down slowly but surely.
The Rovers consulted with Mr. Barlow and his son, James, and all five walked down as close to the edge of the river as the effects of the cloudburst would allow.
At rare, very rare intervals, a cloudburst may come upon the parched land, but five minutes later there is no sign of moisture save for a cup in a ravine or a crevice in a rock, where water may lie for twenty-four hours.
Realizing that he was near his goal the boy hurried on, and soon overtook the party beside a small river with a swollen stream, a recent cloudburst having filled to overflowing a creek usually fordable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cloudburst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
