And just then the hurricane reached the weathercock, and it began to revolve six hundred or seven hundred times a minute, the cat howling until you couldn't hear yourself speak.
We followed the narrow channel between Little Hurricane and the Kentucky shore, a charming run of two or three miles, with both banks a dense tangle of drift-wood, weeds and vines.
The bold, black head of Hurricane Island stood out with startling distinctness, framed in rolling fog; through a cloud-bank on the horizon, the sun was bursting with the dull glow of burnished copper.
And he sang about wrecks and hurricane decks And the mariner's perils and pains, Till every man's blood up on end it stood, And their hair ran cold in their veins.
An Arkansas passenger brought an enormous bear aboard, one day, and chained him to a life-boat on the hurricane deck.
Once when he was captain of the 'Crescent City,' I was bringing the boat into port at New Orleans, and momently expecting orders from the hurricane deck, but received none.
Eric was following a blue-eyed girl along the deck, and Mae and Norman wandered off by themselves up to this same hurricane deck again.
Between days of sea-sickness come delightful intervals of calm sea and fresh breezes, when the party fly to the hurricane deck to get the very quintessence of life on the ocean wave.
The hurricane still raged and swept along with such rapidity that had a mountain been met with the aeronef would have been dashed to pieces like a ship on a lee shore.
And now he was no longer master of her course; she would go where the hurricane took her.
It seemed as though the hurricanewas a sort of Gulf Stream, carrying a certain amount of heat along with it.
But the cyclone had seized the "Albatross," and the hurricane had carried her away to the south.
The damage was the same, a twisting from the violence of the hurricane during the passage across the southern pole.
The flames of Erebus were blown down by the hurricane as it passed, and the "Albatross" flew over unhurt.
The hurricane had carried her over the icebergs and icefloes, against which she was in danger of being dashed a hundred times or more.
They lashed the hurricane light on their boat-hook and waved it to and fro like mad.
They waved their hurricane light again and again, as high as they could hold it.
In 1998, Hurricane Mitch caused relatively little damage to Guatemala compared to its neighbors.
El Salvador sustained damage from Hurricane Mitch, but not as much as other Central American countries.
They had just managed to get the boat headed up-stream when the squall struck them with almost hurricane force.
I've read how a vessel nearly going down in a hurricane has been saved by making a storm anchor out of hatches, or anything else that will float, and towing the same behind to keep the ship steady.
Over the spot which they were now passing had swept that hurricane of missiles, mowing down the engineers engaged in bridge building as though they might be wheat falling before the reaper.
First the Serb brother and sister, and next the injured bridge-builder who had been swept away in that hurricane of fire when the concealed Serbs smashed the pontoon structure.
That hurricane of lead and iron was sweeping everything before it.
On another occasion, while a chorus descriptive of a storm was being sung, a hurricane burst over the Abbey, and the fierce rattling of hailstones, accompanied by peals of thunder, kept time to the grand music of Handel.
On their appearance they were received with a storm of mingled hissing and clapping of hands, which soon augmented into a hurricane of catcalls, shrieking, and stamping.
The aviators operated near a battle front nearly forty miles wide, and above a veritable hurricane of gunpowder, but in this experience Billy and Henri had grown old.
But in less than three hours the biplanes had swept across the river mentioned by the Turkoman as the place of meeting with Nikita, and onrushed, with occasional deviations right and left from straight course, at hurricane speed.
The perils the chums encounter from weird fishes and creatures of the sea and the menace of hurricane and shipwreck, make very interesting and instructive reading.
As they appeared, the long lines of sabres darted from the scabbards; then they rushed like a hurricane toward the guns.
The operation was performed amid a hurricane of bullets, striking down the cannoneers.
The best time for us to visit Puerto Rico, then, is after the hurricane season, in the winter.
Some idea of their power for destruction may be gathered from the pictures in our papers of Galveston, Texas, after the recent hurricane there.
It is easy to tell when a hurricane is approaching.
The state of suspense, while the hurricane lasts, is dreadful, for no one knows when the house may fall and bury all beneath its ruins.
Very soon a fearful roar is heard, and all at once the hurricane descends upon the island.
There I found the huge grey form of the Hurricane alone, with his head bowed in his hands, weeping; for the Earthquake sleeps long and heavily in the abysses, and he would not wake.
The Earthquake lay there, with his snout towards the city, blinking at the lights, while the tall Hurricanestood beside him pointing fiercely at it.
The Hurricane One night I sat alone on the great down, looking over the edge of it at a murky, sullen city.
When the Hurricane strode away, I got up quietly and departed, but at that hour of the next night I came up cautiously to the same spot.
Again a tremendous hurricane swept over the deep: it passed, but not a spar remained to the dismantled bark.
The German and Austrian batteries then proceeded to extend the range, and poured a hurricane of shells behind the enemy's front line.
The British troops were greeted by a perfect hurricane of fire from rifles and machine guns.
When they get a hurricane down in this region it's no cat's paw.
If we can only slip away from here, get into the small boat, or even swim to the submarine, I'll make those chaps on board her think a hurricane has broken loose.
Gathering in masses under cover of the forest, they would dash upon our lines with impetuous fury; only to be sent reeling back by a hurricane of leaden and iron hail.
Like a wild beast attacking its prey, the hurricane still leaped with deep and sullen roars at the little cabin on Bull Creek.
They had burrowed down into the snow where the house would shelter them from the hurricane as much as possible.
Thereupon a hurricane began to rage; rain fell in torrents; the subterranean waters burst forth; a deluge swept over the land, and the wind lashed it into waves sky high; heaven and earth became mingled in chaotic gloom.
And though we had been through the hurricane on the same schooner, it was not until the schooner had gone to pieces under us that I first laid eyes on him.
More--it seemed as if the whole ocean had been sucked up in the maw of the hurricane and hurled on through that portion of space which previously had been occupied by the air.
The hurricane had dissipated the ravenous horde that had surrounded the death ship.
We met in the maw of a hurricane and parted in the maw of a shark, with seventeen intervening years of comradeship the like of which I dare to assert have never befallen two men, the one brown and the other white.
Very, very often I had occasion to remark this, and to wonder how the heart could guard its treasure so rigidly when the brain was driving on, aimless as a ship before the hurricane with her rudder gone.
A heavier broadside of the gathering storm shook the house again, this time sending a shudder through its stout frame and wringing a vibrant ping from the tautened "hurricane cables" that guyed its windward corners.
It was like clambering up out of a companionway, all set for a hurricane sweeping the deck--and finding it calm.
The hurricane was central over the New Hebrides, so it was only the tail of it flirting across the Great Barrier--nothing he would dream of sticking in harbour for.
The air had been charged and electric all day, and the breaking up of the trade wind indicated that a hurricane was mustering its forces somewhere up among the Islands.
Aguado soon considered himself ready to return to Spain, although the examination he had made was a most incomplete one, when a fearful hurricane occurred, which sank the vessels which had brought him over in the harbour.
Ovando would not listen to the advice, and the ships put to sea; scarcely had they reached the eastern point of the island before a terrible hurricane arose, causing twenty-one of the ships to founder with all on board.
The hurricane then drove them southwards, and the admiral at length reached Jamaica with his shattered vessels, casting anchor on the 23rd of June in the harbour of San-Gloria, now called the bay of Don Christopher.
On the 19th of October, another fearful hurricane broke the mast of this vessel, which had then to make more than two thousand miles with incomplete sails.
The gale had freshened since noon, stopping the traffic on the river, and now blew with the strength of a hurricane in fitful bursts that boomed like salvoes of great guns firing over the ocean.
