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I could sit out in the most dreadful thunder storm and just revel in the crashes. Just as I was about to start down to the house it was a little after six o'clock, and getting awfully dark and overcast, Roon took up the glasses again. He seemed to be excited and called his companion. Paul grabbed the glasses and looked down the road.
We cannot release him from that obligation. The Constitution in thunder tones demands that he shall do it alike in the ports of every State. What follows?
They did have a doctor to it next day, but it never recovered its health." He was given another violin, however, and, when only ten, he would wander into the fields and woods, and spend hours playing his own improvisations, echoing the song of the birds, the murmur of the brook, the thunder of the waterfall, the soughing of the wind among the trees, the roar of the storm.
His eyes were black and very piercing; and his voice rolled like thunder when he grew earnest which he was likely to do whenever he spoke.
"What in thunder do you do with them, then?" "We try by God's help I'm going to try to take fear from them. Make them want to be decent. Make them want to use the powers they have in themselves. Make them want to work with God, not alone for God." Jock's face was a puzzle. Admiration, pity, bewilderment, and a desire to laugh, waged war.
I just had time to hear behind me the iron voice of the legions, like a peal of thunder ... then all was darkness. 'Look round, Alice said to me, 'and don't fear. I obeyed and, I remember, my first impression was so sweet that I could only sigh. A sort of smoky-grey, silvery-soft, half-light, half-mist, enveloped me on all sides.
On another occasion, while a chorus descriptive of a storm was being sung, a hurricane burst over the Abbey, and the fierce rattling of hailstones, accompanied by peals of thunder, kept time to the grand music of Handel.
About this time there was a storm came up with the rain, and thunder and lightning, as the elements can only perform in that way in the tropics, surrounded by impenetrable darkness, and to us an unknown river, with its serpents and alligators, with our two naked savages, that we only got in the boat by force, and, of course, could not feel very friendly toward us.
And there at last towered the bald head of Thunder Mountain. She could not see, of course, the flat top itself. Before her rose a precipitous slope, covered with loose stones and débris, and ending in a jagged line of rock against the sky, dull gray against the blue.
And that other sound, too, deep and awful as a mighty organ, the roar and thunder of the multitude on the pavement below! Come! We are losing time. I will cry out in the loudest of the uproar, and mingle my spirit with the wildest of the confusion, and be a bubble on the top of the ferment!" From the first outcry, my forebodings had warned me of the true object and centre of alarm.
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