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Updated: May 21, 2025
Every arroyo is dry, the very cactus seems shriveled and the deep blue of the sky gives no promise of any relief. Then, in the night, thunder-clouds roll up from the painted hills, a tropical deluge resembling a cloud-burst falls, and in the morning lo! where was yellow sand parched from months of drought, is now sprouting green grass!
"On the picnic, of course," she rejoined promptly. "Weren't you invited? I thought you were." "I thought it would be too wet," he averred in explanation. "Not a bit! The rain dries quickly in the hills, and the cloud-burst only came into this gulch.
Men who have attempted to cross it at mid-day have been known to fall dead, and birds flying across have been killed by the fierce heat. Cloud-bursts occur occasionally on the adjoining mountains, when torrents pour down the declivities, filling the canyons with streams of water sometimes many feet deep, which sweep everything before them. A cloud-burst may change the whole face of the mountain.
"You remember the day, two months ago, when we had such a sudden wind and rain storm, a regular cloud-burst? I was down here in this neighborhood fetching manuscripts from M. Labouchere and M. Laroy. I was to have come up here for copy from you, too.
This pillar was of pale, green-streaked marble, and Peter's eyes followed it to the top, where it exploded in a snow-white cloud-burst, full of fascination.
There flashed into Mary Carmichael’s mind a sentence from her physical geography that she had been obliged to commit to heart in her school-days: "A cloud-burst is a sudden, capricious rainfall, as if the whole cloud had been precipitated at once."
There is one gray peak ahead, tinged with green. The trail is all washed away and our horses stumble and slide, slip and almost fall over the barren and rough rocks, and the scattered bowlders, a devastating cloud-burst could not wash away. Here is a spring on the left, hidden in a grove of alders and willows, and now new and more fantastic spires arise on the right.
The storm had delayed the march and, after the last cloud-burst, several convicts and guards had been attacked by fever owing to their wet night- quarters in the open air. The Egyptian asses, too, who were unused to rain, had suffered and some of the best had been left on the road.
As for the disputant who had stirred up the monster, his situation was as unenviable as it was comic to the bystanders. He had never before dropped a stone into the great geyser. He was therefore unprepared for the result. One likened him to an unprotected traveler in a heavy rain-storm. For the Bibliotaph's unpremeditated speech was a very cloud-burst of eloquence.
Tommy was there, sitting in the boat and making the shallow water splash as he rocked from side to side. "Get out, Tommy, and let me have her, quick!" Ruth Mary called to him. Tommy looked at her stolidly and kept on rocking. "What you want with her?" he asked. "Come out, for mercy's sake! Don't you hear it? There's a cloud-burst on the mountain." Tommy listened.
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