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"Look at that, will you!" exclaimed Tom. "What, you are not scared, are you?" asked Jack. "N-no, but I must say I'm not fond of thunderstorms Particularly when we are carrying all that gas over our heads." "That new invention of mine will take care of that all right," said Jack confidently.
Crows and hawks we carefully reserved to the last when all else should fail. The absence of kangaroos and other marsupials is a marked feature in this list, there being none on these wide-stretching downs." In January, 1879, the thunderstorms set in, and enabled the explorers to reach the line safely at Powell Creek Station. From here they travelled over known country to Port Darwin.
"Lie down, miss; lie down, and don't be afeerd. The tent will stand, as we are pretty well sheltered here, and " Another fearful thunderclap cut short his words, and she instinctively clutched his hand. She was used to terrific thunderstorms in New South Wales, but she had neyer heard anything so awful as this it seemed as if the heavens had burst. "Where is Mr.
On the 4th we found a clay-pan, having a clay-hole at one end with some mud in it, and which the natives had but just left, but no water; then another, where, as thunderstorms were flying about in all directions, we dug out a clay tank. While at work our clothes were damped with a sprinkling, but not enough rain fell to leave any on the ground.
They were talking about her, she knew, and the happy color burned in her cheeks. When he came in for his second visit, late that afternoon, she asked him, archly, what he and Edith had been talking about so long in his room? "I believe you were telling her what a goose I am about thunderstorms," she said. "I was not!" he declared and her eyes shone. But when she urged
I mention this conversation because by some strange chance it happened at Isandhlwana that I killed this man, who was named Simpofu. During all those days of trudging through hot suns and thunderstorms, for I had to give up the mare to Kaatje who was too fat to walk, or said she was, I was literally haunted by thoughts of my murdered friends.
Perhaps when you've been some months under the same roof with these miniature thunderstorms, Jack, Harry, Job, Jenny, and Dolly, you'll long to go back to the attic." A tremendous thump on the floor overhead, followed by a wild uproar, sent the doctor upstairs three steps at a stride. I sat prudently still till he returned, which he did in a few minutes, laughing.
For an hour he stood there staring into the darkness and watched with delight the progress of the storm. He had an inheritance from his mother a love of thunderstorms. He remembered a night when he was a boy and his mother had got out of bed and gone here and there through the house singing.
In the interior, on account of the vast jungles, except in case of thunderstorms, which are rare, there is no wind, but on the coasts one may encounter storms in the time of both the northeast and the southwest monsoons.
His troops suffered from the heat, from the want of provisions and fodder, from the swarms of flies which disputed with them every morsel of their food and every drop of their drink, and finally from violent hail and thunderstorms. Trajan was forced to withdraw after a time without effecting anything, and to own himself baffled and defeated by the garrison of a petty fortress.
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