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Updated: May 3, 2025
Thus they wore away their blameless lives until at last they died of old age, and, as they believed and who shall say that they were wrong the eternal round repeated itself elsewhere. Immediately after, indeed on the very day of our arrival at the monastery the winter began in earnest with bitter cold and snowstorms so heavy and frequent that all the desert was covered deep.
And in the same way it would be absurd to deny that Jerusalem is a Southern town, in the sense of being normally out of the way of snowstorms, but the truth can be suggested by saying that it has always known the quality of snow, but not the quantity. And the quantity of snow that fell on this occasion would have been something striking and even sensational in Sussex or Kent.
The gales and snowstorms are excelled in horror by avalanches. Quite lately the melting snow revealed the frozen bodies, looking horribly lifelike, of a whole platoon which had been swept away nearly a year ago. "While there have been heavy casualties on both sides from sniping, bombing, mountain and machine guns, and heavy artillery, there has been little sickness among the Italians.
I had read somewhere that people had thus saved their lives in snowstorms. Suddenly Felix gave a shout. "I see a light," he cried. "Where? Where?" We all looked but could see nothing. "I don't see it now but I saw it a moment ago," shouted Felix. "I'm sure I did. Come on over in this direction." Inspired with fresh hope we hurried after him.
Despite wading waist-deep through flooding rivers and swamps in freezing February snowstorms, going days without warm food, poorly clothed, and carrying only the minimum supply of gunpowder and shot, Clark and his men reached Vincennes determined to fight. Learning that he had arrived undetected by the British, Clark ordered great bonfires lit, both to warm his frozen men and to deceive Hamilton.
Snowstorms are characteristic of polar latitudes; nevertheless, at times they glide one might almost say tumble into our climates; so much ruin is mingled with the chances of the air. The Matutina, as we have seen, plunged resolutely into the great hazard of the night, a hazard increased by the impending storm.
While the days grew lighter they worked at a new outfit. They made trousers out of their blankets. Shoes were patched, rope was cut out of walrus hide, new runners were put on the sledges, the provisions were packed, and on May 19 they left their cabin and marched farther south-west. Time after time they had to rest on account of snowstorms.
Thomas was a brave little fellow, and when his mother spoke to him about the work that would have to be done, he offered to undertake it all. Though a boy in years, he spoke and acted like a man. That first winter, alone in the backwoods, was a terrible time. Snowstorms swept around the humble dwelling, and wolves howled in the forest during the long winter nights.
While he sometimes met with smooth stretches of snow-covered ice, it was generally piled in huge wind-rows, incredibly rugged and difficult to surmount. Again it would be broken away from the base of sheer cliffs, where stretches of open water would necessitate toilsome inland detours over or around lofty headlands. He was always buffetted by strong winds, and often halted by blinding snowstorms.
Worthington." "Mr. Worthington!" "I have been trying to entertain him, but I am afraid I have been a very poor substitute. However, I have persuaded him to stay for supper." "It needed but little persuasion," said Bob, appearing in the doorway. All the snowstorms of the wide Atlantic could not have brought such color to her cheeks.
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