Squall after squall, driving wind and blinding rain, smote the Minota, while a heavier sea was making.
We were now to windward of the Snark, and the squall was howling.
If that squall had missed us, the handcuffs would have remained on the pump, and we would have busied ourselves with utilizing our surplus gasolene for distillation purposes.
The cutter was well ballasted, and we met the squall under full sail.
In the height of the squall we had to go about, in order to make a short leg to windward to pass around a patch of coral no more than a foot under the surface.
Again, when we were preparing to return to the Snark, the sky to windward turned black and anothersquall swooped down.
Steadily, to the eastward, an ominous squall had been rising and blotting out the bright trade-wind sky.
But they seemed to grow limp and to droop as the squall broke in half, one part passing on ahead, the other drawing astern and going to leeward.
Three hours from the time our messenger started, a whale-boat, pressing along under a huge spread of canvas, broke through the thick of a shrieking squall to windward.
And every squall was to be regarded as a bludgeon capable of crushing the Snark.
The thousandth squall in one's experience is as interesting as the first one, and perhaps a bit more so.
By sunset, the back of the squall had broken though it was still too rough for the canoe.
A suddensquall drove them out to sea, and when they expected every moment to perish, landed them on an unknown island, which, from their happy escape, they named Porto Santo.
A squall of guffaws blew through the transom, and the Colonel was heard slapping his knee.
The squall coming, and the sound of it in the trees, and the very smell of the wet meadow-grass in the wind.
The Maria was heeling to the squall by the time the Celebrity appeared at the cabin door, enveloped in an ample waterproof, a rubber cover on his yachting cap.
Where are their eyes that they can't see a squall coming up?
The danger was past, for the squall had few difficulties for Si and Snuffy.
The squall appeared to have done its worst now, and though the seas continued to break against and over us, it was more in sheets of spray than in green water.
As well as the squall would permit, the young major sent the Alice around.
As the sloop came broadside to the squall a wave struck her and broke over the deck.
Well, when the squall came we simply had to call it off--with the other sloop capsized.
A squall is a nasty thing to be out in--I know that from personal experience.
You can see shadowy hands draw on the misty night cap or fold round massive shoulders the billowy gray drapery or inky cloak when passing rain squall or mountain tempest is brewing.
You are sure they're not too big," said Mark, "if a white squall comes.
He was to work the foresail if they had to tack, or let down the mainsail if a white squall or a tornado struck the ship.
They had only got a portion of it in when the squall struck her, and everything had to be let fly.
XV "Scarcely was Mongia by our galley doubled, Ere a squall took us on the larboard side, Which round about the clear horizon troubled, And stirred and tost heaven-high the foaming tide.
Well it was at such a moment that the main sheet was free to be hauled in; for as the bow was put up to the wind, the varyingsquall caught her on the other beam and threw her over, so that she shipped a bucket or two of water.
On the next day after the Melville squall in the boatyard office, Jacob Farnum, looking out of a window, and through the open gateway, saw three heavily-laden lumber trucks go by.
The last time, I confess, I made her squall out on purpose.
Sweet Sall CAN make a noise when I worry her into it; she's just like other women in that respect; she'll be sure to squall out if you don't touch her just in the right quarter.
VI The Willi-Waw was tearing through the water with a bone in her teeth, for the breath of the passing squall was still strong.
The squall held at its high pitch, and under her small canvas the Willi-Waw still foamed along.
It's a double-header, I saw a bigsquall like that off Savaii once.
On one promontory a slant of sunshine blazed torridly, on another, scarcely a mile away, a squall was bursting in furious downpour of driving rain.
The rugged land was swathed with cloud-banks and squall wreaths, through which headlands and interior peaks thrust darkly.
The next minute an immense disturbance leaped out of the darkness upon the sea, kindling upon it a livid clearness of foam, and the first gust of the squall boarded the brig in a stinging flick of rain and spray.
The brig may get a lot of sternway on her should this squall not strike her fairly.
She had been lying sleeping with Willie in her arms, but a sudden squall shook the door, and made it and the window-frame rattle, and that startled her, and she wakened.
Didn't old Joe Gafler warn them there was a squall a-coming!
But she proved to be a frigate in disguise, and a sudden squall sent the schooner under her guns before she could change her course.
The whole ocean was one continual foam of breakers, and the heaviest squall that I ever experienced had not equalled in violence the most moderate intervals of this tremendous hurricane.
When the squall was over, the nearest vessel of the British squadron was seen to be a long way astern, and to have fallen off two points to leeward, while the slowest ones were so far behind as to be almost out of sight.
Presently the squall came, and with it a rainstorm that hid the vessels from one another.
In the evening of the second day, it was evident that a heavy squall was coming up.
Obydos was in sight in the afternoon, but presently we lost it in a violent squall of rain.
Then thesquall and waves rush down on us express, and the ship buries herself.
The squall came down like a gun burst, and nearly carried away the awnings.
I never before or since have met in the Mersey a squall so sudden, or so violent, and in a minute it was over, and the wind blew as it had done before.
The harder we pulled the faster she went, and at last disappeared in a squall of thick rain, which drove down upon us.
Some said that it was a sand-bank, others an island, some a shoal fish, but I saw that it was a heavy squall driving furiously over the hitherto smooth unruffled sea.
Down came the squall upon us, roaring, and tearing, and hissing along the ocean.
But when the squall has removed to about half a mile beyond the ship, exactly the same appearances return by which the squall was characterised in coming off the shore, and before reaching the same distance from the ship.
When, however, the squall comes within the distance of about half a mile from the ship, these electric appearances altogether cease; the rain only continues in the same manner.
The approach of the squall is generally foreboded by the appearance of jet black clouds over the land, moving in a direction towards the sea, at the same time that a gentle breeze blows towards the shore.
By this time the squall had passed, and it lightened up a little.
While employed in taking it in, a squall passed over the boat; which nearly blew it away from us.
I do not think more than three or four minutes, if as many, had passed since the squallstruck us, and there I was standing on the vessel's quarter, led by Providence more than by any discretion of my own.
We gathered in the canvass as fast as we could; but, before we could get through, and while I was lending a hand to furl the foresail, the squall struck the brig.
Winter--a schooner that had gone down in the same squall that carried us over.
But this time the squall swept past ahead of us, and the craft only reeled to the swollen waves, as they tore by.
