Whirlwinds generally arise after calms and great heats: the same is observed of water-spouts, which are, therefore, most frequent in the warm latitudes.
So that in this particular, likewise, whirlwinds and water-spouts agree.
Thus these eddies may be whirlwinds at land, water-spouts at sea.
Whirlwinds and spouts are not always, though most commonly, in the daytime.
And at that moment hurricanes and whirlwinds began to blow.
And whirlwinds and frightful sounds convulsed everything, and the earth herself began to quake.
If whirlwinds are caused and set in motion by electricity, why may not all other forms of wind be productions of the same force?
In some instances the resupply is derived in but slight degree from that source, but rather from that great reservoir, the earth; as in the instances of whirlwinds and tornadoes.
A whirlwind will pass forwards, and throw down an avenue of trees by its quick revolution as it passes, but nothing like a whirling is described as happening in these narrow streams of air, and whirlwinds ascend to greater heights.
Unless the smaller whirlwinds are quite distinct from the larger ones in their origin, the theories advanced by meteorologists to account for the latter are certainly untenable.
No one who studied these whirlwinds could for a moment believe that they were caused by conflicting currents of air.
I advanced this theory to account for the origin of whirlwinds in a paper read before the Philosophical Institute of Victoria in 1857.
We thus see that whirlwinds of great violence occur when the air is dry, and there can be no condensation.
Amid real hard work he found time to evolve a theory of whirlwinds and to speculate upon the soaring of birds.
But even if this fundamental objection to the theory could be set aside, the small whirlwinds could not thus arise, as they are most frequent when the air is nearly or quite motionless.
Humboldt had long ago ascribed whirlwinds to the meeting of opposing currents of air.
The result is to cause these great whirlwindsof the hurricanes of higher latitudes to whirl round from right to left in the northern hemisphere and in the reverse way in the southern.
Fortunately, where these great whirlwinds trespass on the continent, they quickly die out, because of the relative lack of moisture which serves to stimulate the uprush which creates them.
The whirlwinds we had observed in the distance, when crossing the Colorado Desert a day or two before, seemed to have been only its precursors.
On the 6th, then, in the midst of whirlwinds of snow, the order for departure was given.
Everybody knows that Alleghany county is, or used to be, a great place for whirlwinds and tornadoes.
These windfalls were neither more nor less than the old tracks of these whirlwinds and tornadoes, that had swept down the forest trees.
Justice brings three prisoners to Hell and returning causes such a rush of fiery whirlwinds that all the infernal lords are swept away into the Uttermost Hell.
Lombard blades long ago, Swifter than whirlwinds blow, Swept from Milan the foe: Why should we stay?
Very soon after his arrival there was great turbulence in the air, and many portentous storms; the winds became tempestuous, and fiery whirlwinds rushed forth.
This year dire forewarnings came over the land of the North-humbrians, and miserably terrified the people; these were excessive whirlwinds and lightnings; and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air.
It's impossible for us to tell where these electric whirlwinds passed or where these currents were.
Yet shall remembrance dwell On all thy sorrows through life's stormy sea, When fate's resistless whirlwinds shed Unnumber'd tempests round thy head, The varying ills of human destiny!
We were in an open country, and thewhirlwinds became so violent, that it was impossible to proceed.
In a general point of view, these whirlwindsare nothing but water-spouts in miniature.
If we happened to be caught in one of these whirlwinds would it carry us away?
Whirlwinds are also instrumental in bearing along heavy vegetable substances to considerable distances.
Violent whirlwinds carried up men, horses, cattle, and whatever else came within their influence into the air; tore up the largest trees by the roots, and covered the whole sea with floating timber.
How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world?
It sent forward a succession of short-lived whirlwindsthat went to pieces explosively, hurling sparks and blazing bark far and high.
One morning conditions changed and after a few preliminary whirlwinds a gusty gale set in.
Some whirlwindsare accompanied by rushes from the upper atmosphere, from the colder regions, which, mingling with warmer and moister air near the sea, cause dense clouds.
Stories blow over here in whirlwinds from England.
On that there was a general exclamation, and the conversation forthwith whisked into one of those animated whirlwinds that always arise when the comparative merits of the sexes are moved.
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