But after a few hours these north-west squalls gradually diminished in intensity, and for a time the windstorm seemed to be over.
We had not been two hours on the way, however, when the sky began to grow gray and apparently a storm was coming; the wind increased, and flakes of snow began to fall; the squalls increased in force and frequency.
Three or four hours after our departure the wind increased, and terrific squalls followed each other and threatened to upset our sleighs.
Or rather to behold her when She plies for me the unresting pen, And when the loud assault of squalls Resounds upon the roof and walls, And the low thunder growls and I Raise my dictating voice on high.
The cold did not seem to increase, although we had snow very frequently, and now and then hail squallsof great violence.
The cold was now excessive, and we had hail squalls continually from the northward and eastward.
The squalls gave some trouble, but, on the whole, he did very well.
It blew more in squalls than it had done, and the relative positions of the schooners were more or less affected by the circumstance.
Despite his assurance, however, it did last all night, and it was only the lulls between the sharp squalls that enabled them to cover the trail before daylight.
Squalls of wind, sweeping into the Gap and sucked upward on the huge expanse of rock below, tossed his hair and ballooned his coat as he buttoned it.
That was sudden, now; but squalls come sudden in hot latitudes.
Mist and fog shrouded the southern portion of the North Sea, and when there was no mist and fog, heavy clouds hung like palls low over the surface, or there were heavy rain-squalls and high winds.
The clouds were low, snow-squalls swept down before the north-east wind, and the air was bumpy.
There were strong squallsduring the night, with rain, but the wind being off the land, the ship rode easy with a whole cable.
Derwent River; but rainy squalls coming on from the south, ran for a small beach on the western shore, and anchored off it in 2½ fathoms.
During the night there were squalls of wind with hail and rain, but tolerably moderate weather in the intervals.
Fortunately, the squalls came from the westward, so that we were enabled to get further from those stupendous cliffs; had they come from the south, the consequences might have been fatal to the Norfolk.
July 28, we proceeded down the river; but owing to strong winds and squalls from the south-east, did not clear it before the 31st.
The squalls that came very quickly, frequently broke the monotony of the trip.
And this precious deep is filled with islands which we may still visit, and though the sea is a dreadful place, I like to be there, and like squalls (when they are over) and to draw near to a new island I can not say how much I like.
At noon the squalls had mostly passed over, and the shore, which then extended from S.
The air was sticky and humid, and the rain-squalls were unrefreshing.
The wind however continued freshening rapidly, and during the evening and night we had heavy squalls accompanied by rain from all quarters, and much thunder and lightning.
The master was so astounded that he let go of Rufus and stared down at her.
Tom still thought that the fox's silvery pelt ought to be saved; but the old Squire persuaded him not to run the risk of skinning the creature.
It was not easy to keep the saws going fast enough not to catch and freeze in; and the cakes had to be hauled out the moment they were sawed, or they would freeze on again.
Who would have thought Easter was still a week away, when, usually, there were squalls all the time and sudden tempests.
The wind came in a succession of long frigid squalls that whipped the sails about and whistled through the rigging.
But the morning dawned with a sky that was overcast, and the wind came hard in streaks and squalls that were gradually piling up a sea.
I've been to sea these fifteen years, and I always find that squallscome on at breakfast or dinner, like an unwelcome visitor.
At five o'clock the wind veered to the north, with squalls increasing in intensity.
All I ask you to remember is to be smart in obeying orders, for squalls are sometimes very sudden here--but I doubt not that such a caution is needless.
We will not follow them step by step in this voyage, which occupied more than a week, and during which they encountered without damage several squalls in which a small open boat could not have lived.
In a few moments the squalls of wind would become unbearable.
But those wind squallswere no longer to be feared.
Now, these cataclysms are terrible in Africa: rain in torrents, squalls of wind which the strongest trees cannot resist, clap after clap of thunder, such is the contest of the elements in that latitude.
It was very thick with occasional squalls of snow, which put a screaming as of tortured cats into the wind as they swung through it.
And such was very much our policy; reefed close down, looking out for squalls at any moment from any quarter, saying nothing to nobody, content to be let alone, if only we might be so let.
Its coming was usually heralded by fitful and uncertain winds, varied by such squalls or storms as they had just experienced.
We seem to have got out of that circle of squalls through which we have been making our way.
Squalls are very prevalent in rounding the Cape, and I think he will give it a wide berth.
The wind began to whine around the tall staff and rain squalls drifted across the sullenly heaving sea outside the Twin Rocks.
But these squalls were for the most part ignored by the lightkeeper.
Them black squalls don't really amount to nothin'--after they are over.
Squalls were common on this coast, and it was the business of one aspiring to be a fisherman to take things as they came.
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