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Updated: June 29, 2025
The place could be picked out for miles by pillars of red and black dust towering above it like a Broken Hill dust-storm. Then Germans were reported coming on again, as in the morning. Again our artillery descended upon them like a hailstorm, and nothing came of the attack. During all this time, in spite of the shelling, the troops were slowly working forwards through Pozières; not backwards.
If we had begun at the other end, landed at Shanghai, for instance, and worked our way northward, we should probably have been enthusiastic over the lesser towns. But we began at the top; and when you have seen the best there is, everything else is anticlimax. We arrived the other evening in a tremendous dust-storm, the first real dust-storm we have experienced.
At Khartoum, which they reached on the 5th of May, 1865, they were welcomed by the whole European population, and hospitably entertained. Here they remained two months. During the time the heat was intense, and the place was visited by a dust-storm, which in a few minutes produced an actual pitchy darkness.
A dust-storm was raging in the desert beyond the compound, and its stinging blasts of wind, laden with sand, drove heavily over the exquisite masses of bloom, the glorious and delicate scented blossoms of the garden. It tore off the flowers remorselessly, and even for the moment he stood there, a rain of thin, white, shredded petals was flung into his face.
In the matter of particulars a detail here, a detail there we have had the choice climate of New South Wales' seacoast; we have had the Australian heat as furnished by Captain Sturt; we have had the wonderful dust-storm; and we have considered the phenomenon of an almost empty hot wilderness half as big as the United States, with a narrow belt of civilization, population, and good climate around it.
Thousands of them, borne along in a dance of this kind, advance with the beflustered, orderly air of a procession of starlings. The world ceases to be a universal grave. It is at the very least a dance and a dust-storm.
Scenery and natural history of upper Soane valley Hardwickia binata Bhel fruit Dust-storm Alligator Catechu Cochlospermum Leaf-bellows Scorpions Tortoises Florican Limestone spheres Coles Tiger-hunt Robbery. In the evening we returned to our tamarind tree, and the next morning regained the trunk road, following it to the dawk bungalow of Doomree.
In each other's eyes they saw a plea to be alone together in their new world, and said, in a breath, that they would live in the hut. "Oh kid, I'm so glad," said Mrs. Twist when the men went off to see what damage the dust-storm had done. Marcella was extraordinarily happy as she was taught what to do in the Homestead. The hut was on the edge of a great patch of gorse that Mr.
He struck another match. From the gloom beyond the space lit by the small flame came the rustle of something stirring. The match burned out. He lit another and groped forward. His foot struck an impediment. He looked down into the startled eyes and white face of Lee Snaith. A Dust-Storm It had been a beautiful day of sunshine when Lee left Live-Oaks to ride to the Ninety-Four Ranch.
Along this, however, they can ride abreast, and without fear of breaking through. As they proceed onward, Gaspar gives them some further information about the ford they are making for. "We can easily wade it," he says, "if this awkward and ill-timed dust-storm hasn't changed it, as everything else.
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