Have braved the roaring blast, And still shall fly when from the sky This black typhoonhas past!
The bungalows and stores were built of heavy bamboo and gum-wood; sprawly, one-storied affairs; for the typhoon was no stranger in these waters.
She recalled that day of the typhoon and the sloop crashing on the outer reefs.
Towards evening of that day, the Pequod was torn of her canvas, and bare-poled was left to fight a Typhoon which had struck her directly ahead.
Tell me, when this same Pequod here had her three masts overboard in that typhoon on Japan, that same voyage when thou went mate with Captain Ahab, did'st thou not think of Death and the Judgment then?
Gales we encountered now and again, for it was a raw and stormy region, and, in the middle of June, a typhoon most memorable to me and most important because of the changes wrought through it upon my future.
The typhoonnow shifted from the north-west to the westwards, and the barometer, rising shortly afterwards to 29.
By Jingo, it's turning the tail of a typhoon into a fair wind!
Call up the hands to try and get some more sail on her; for I'm going to make the best of this typhoon now, as it has made the best it could of me--one good turn deserves another.
It is during these struggles, when the atmosphere is unhinged, as it were, that the typhoon makes its awful appearance.
At night, in camp, the small typhoon hit and with it went three or four tents, occupants of which awoke to find themselves thoroughly drenched and at odds with the world, Leyte in particular.
At this time a disquieting report was received from the meteorologists on board the ships: a typhoon was headed toward the Leyte Gulf area.
Experienced mariners know that the way to get out of a typhoon is to keep the wind on the starboard bow and side, gradually working out or getting blown out.
In a typhoon the wind blows the surface water into clouds of foam and spray.
The evening sky is very wild, and we were all last night under the typhoon at sea; to-night we are in the new town of Victoria, and will be phantom bed-fellows to any Chinaman who has been eating pork for supper.
Glad it's a typhoon from the south, for it will carry us forward.
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme.
It had been the original intention that Kingsnorth should take the launch over for Collingwood, but, as the time slipped by, and the typhoon season was at hand this idea was deemed impracticable.
To his second officer he had expressed a desire for a typhoon that would roll the deadlights out of his boat, and blow the hyphenated "garden truck" into the Sulu Sea.
This was the middle of the typhoon season, and we were in the most dangerous part of the world for storms.
It was now decided that the Snark must be getting on faster, in order that we might pass through the Indian Ocean before the typhoon season.
A typhoon is to an ordinary storm what a surf is to a deep-sea wave, for it's short but ugly.
It was south of Midway Island that we ran into the typhoon come over from Asia.
When it was done with us the Anaconda began to leak fearful in the waist, and I dare say the typhoon was excuse enough if she'd broken in two.
The actual typhoon is of a very different description; in fact, it differs in no respect from the worst hurricanes which visit the Mauritius or the West Indies.
But it is time to return from this digression to the harbour of Hong-Kong, just at the time when the height of the typhoon had passed over.
It was evident to all, that if the expected typhoon should burst upon them, the most serious disasters would inevitably take place.
In this way the storm at length subsides, and the horrors of a typhoon are averted.
A typhoon was, therefore, confidently predicted, and the more so because none had occurred for several years.
When a typhoon runs around Fuji, Amenomori tells me that it blows the big rocks away like a powder-explosion.
All I do know is that from the time the typhoon struck us we must have been carried by wind and the fierce currents right away to the west and south.
A typhoon of rage flashed across her beautiful face.
This army was met and defeated(128) by Tokimune, and, a timely typhoon coming to their aid, the fleet of vessels was completely destroyed.
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