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Updated: May 9, 2025
Ere the startled multitudes had stirred from their first surprised position, the tempest came down in its fury, sweeping, tornado-like, from West to East, and then into one grand gyration circling the whole horizon. Men lost courage, confidence, and hope. They stood still while the storm beat down, and the fearful work of destruction went on.
But, there was no one to be seen either on top of the deck-house or in the long-boat, although the squealing still continued. "D'ye hear me there, forrud?" shouted Captain Gillespie again in a voice of thunder, having now worked himself up into one of his tornado-like rages. "Leave those pigs alone, I tell ye!"
"What's the matter with you?" he exclaimed testily. "You 've made a mistake!" "I 'm blimed if I 'ave!" bellowed a tornado-like voice. "Blime! You look just like 'im!" "But you 're mistaken, old man!"
He saw that somebody was about to stab his old friend. In five long, noiseless steps, or leaps, he was behind that somebody, and had seized the arm which held the knife. With a movement as quick as the stroke of a rattlesnake, Banker turned upon the man who had clutched his arm, and when he saw that it was Mok, his fury grew tornado-like.
The twister seems to be a simultaneous rushing in of tornado-like winds from every quarter and a whirling bluster of elements gone mad. And in that month the high tide is the highest in the year. For the household of Eben Tollman as well as for the weather the season seemed charged with the unquiet influences of equinox.
She dreaded each moment a return of that tornado-like passion that had so often appalled her. But it did not come. His arms held her indeed, but without violence, and in his stillness there was no tension to denote its presence. He spoke at length, almost whispering. "Dinah, who is the lucky fellow? Tell me!" She started away from him. She almost cried out in her dismay. But he stopped her.
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