The five streams, flowing through the delta of the Cotabato River, seemed to draw the vicious waterspout toward them, and on it went, directly in the wake of the doomed Dyaks.
Every element of his being, his very attitude, proclaimed that his spirit was pouring out a thanksgiving to his patron, whose prayers to Allah, the Merciful, had sent the waterspout to destroy his enemies.
To the waterspout succeeded light and baffling winds so that labor as they might, it was fully dark when the Pilgrim pinnace entered what is now Barnstable, then Cummaquid Harbor.
There's naught to do but tarry until Master Waterspout declareth his pleasure.
They say to hit the waterspout in the centre where it joins the other from below will disperse it.
The Golden Waterspout was plainly visible, gleaming in the sun--a massive trough of pure metal, its value quite incalculable.
I will describe it more clearly to your highness, for there is no one who has a better right to know what a waterspout is, than myself.
Like the column in Holy Writ, the waterspout is dark by day and luminous by night.
The sea is blown out of a waterspout as from a syphon; the storm observes the principle of the pump; the lightning issues from the sea as from the air.
It is probable that the squall had thus rotated upon the point of the Douvres, and had turned suddenly into a waterspout on meeting the shock of the rocks, a fact which explained the casting of the vessel so high among them.
But what mysterious affinity there could be between a waterspout in a calm, and a breeze springing up soon afterward, I leave my scientific friends to discover and explain.
Here for days they were tossed about, while the rain poured down in a perfect deluge, and to add to the terror of the seamen a waterspout was seen approaching, from which they narrowly escaped.
The waterspout Dampier describes as the small ragged part of a cloud, hanging down from the blackest part.
It was a waterspout beginning to work within a quarter of a mile of the ship in the wind's eye.
With a terrifying roar the waterspout swept down on the ship.
The waterspout was going to hit us, quartering on the starboard bow.
His mind turning from the waterspout to Dan Davis, Sam wheeled, steadying himself by holding tightly to the railing that extended around the top.
The seas were engulfing the ship so that the officers could not see the waterspout at all.
Over the door there is a waterspout that has given way, and as I entered I got a rush of rain down my neck.
Like the tornadoes and dust whirls, the life of a waterspout appears to be brief.
As in the tornadoes, the waterspout begins with a funnel, which descends from the sky to the surface of the sea.
From having been the waterspoutwhich overthrew the forests, he became the gentle breeze which caresses and refreshes them: with his warm showers he fertilizes the fields: he lightens the air and tempers the summer heat.
Tom was taking several views of thewaterspout as it was whirling along, and some of the other passengers, grown bolder as they saw that there was no danger, were doing the same.
The passengers were crowded about the gun that had been fired, congratulating the gunner, and talking about the waterspout and its sudden destruction.
Tom went below, noting as he did so that the sea was still foaming and agitated where the waterspout had subsided into the waves.
But the course of the Silver Star had been so changed that she was in comparatively no danger of being struck, unless the waterspout suddenly shifted.
The eclipse and the waterspout were nothing else than dust; and that day Odessa was swept cleaner than it will probably ever be again.
We had a waterspout that night, this little stream was filled twenty feet deep, and some of us began to look wild.
Well, a waterspout is one thing, and a blizzard is the next," said Banta.
The eclipse and the waterspout were nothing else than dust, and that day Odessa was swept cleaner than it will probably ever be again.
If it wasn't for that waterspout that washed away our road we'd be richer than you are, today!
But when I came down from Panamint, to see where thewaterspout had struck, and found it tearing in from Woodpecker Canyon, I said: 'It is the hand of God!
The high rim of the canyon cut off all but the high peaks, and they could see nothing but the waterspout now; and it, as if stabilized by its contact with the earth, had turned into a long line of black.
If the hand of Divine Providence had loosed the waterspout down their canyon to punish him for his overweening pride, perhaps it had now saved him and turned the bullet aside to make him meet for repentance.
A waterspout is nothing to be fooled with, I can tell you.
On the day following the appearance of the waterspout the weather changed.
The young second mate was right, the waterspout appeared to be headed directly for the schooner.
When it came up, the waters of the ocean followed, and there loomed up before those on the ship a waterspout ten or fifteen feet thick.
The waterspout kept within sight for a good half-hour, although it did not come near them again.
It's going away," murmured Luke, when once more the waterspout made a curve and then shot directly toward them.
But, just as it looked as if the schooner would be buried beneath a veritable mountain of water, the waterspout took another curve and slid away, along the side of the ship and off the stern.
The waterspout was slowly but surely ceasing to be a waterspout when it disappeared from view in the misty distance some fifteen minutes or more from the time it was sighted.
While the vessel was uninjured, the waterspout soon showed signs that it had received its death-blow.
The waterspoutcrop is generally more plentiful when thunder and lightning are on top, which is in warmer weather.
He thinks an unusually largewaterspout might possibly sink a very small vessel, say a pilot boat, but with a ship of ordinary size he considers bombarding a waterspout with cannon a waste of powder.
One joint of it makes a very good bottle; a long piece of it, with one side cut off and the stoppage at the joints cut away, makes a waterspout or watercourse, or a thing for fowls to eat or drink out of.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waterspout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
