 | Robert Cooney - Gaspé District (Québec) - 1832 - 378 pages
...of creation appeared to have been deranged ; and about to revert into original chaos. Earth, Jlir, Sea, and Sky ; all visible creation seemed to conspire...tortured into violence by the hurricane, foamed with rnge, and flung its boiling spray upon the land. The thunder pealed along the vault of Heaven ; the... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Gibraltar - 1834 - 656 pages
...occasioned, and several hundred miles of prostrate forests and smitten woods marked their devastating way. The river, tortured into violence by the hurricane,...thunder pealed along the vault of heaven ; the lightning appeared to rend the firmament. For a moment, and all was still, a deep and awful silence reigned over... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1837 - 388 pages
...occasioned, and several hundred miles of prostrate forests and smitten woods marked their devastating way. The river, tortured into violence by the hurricane,...thunder pealed along the vault of heaven : the lightning appeared to rend the firmament. For a moment, and all was still, a deep and awful silence reigned over... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - New Brunswick - 1837 - 406 pages
...occasioned, and several hundred miles of prostrate forests and smitten woods marked their devastating way. The river, tortured into violence by the hurricane,...thunder pealed along the vault of heaven : the lightning appeared to rend the firmament. For a moment, and all was still, a deep and awful silence reigned over... | |
 | John S. Springer - Logging - 1851 - 282 pages
...occasioned, and several hundred miles of prostrate forests and smitten woods marked their devastating way. The river, tortured into violence by the hurricane,...pealed along the vault of heaven — the lightning appeared to .rend the firmament. For a moment all was still, and a deep and awful silence reigned over... | |
 | America North, Henry Youle Hind - Canada - 1863 - 858 pages
...occasioned, and several hundred miles of prostrate forests and smitten woods marked their devastating way. " The river, tortured into violence by the hurricane,...rage, and flung its boiling spray upon the land. The thunders pealed along the vault of heaven ; the lightning appeared to rend the firmament. For a moment... | |
 | Henry Youle Hind - Canada - 1868 - 872 pages
...occasioned, and several hundred miles of prostrate forests and smitten woods marked their devastating way. " The river, tortured into violence by the hurricane,...rage, and flung its boiling spray upon the land. The thunders pealed along the vault of heaven ; the lightning appeared to rend the firmament. For a moment... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 456 pages
...of smoke, issuing from different parts of the woods, and illuminated by flames, mounted to the sky. The river, tortured into violence by the hurricane,...thunder pealed along the vault of heaven: the lightning appeared to rend the firmament. For a moment all was still. A deep, awful silence reigned over everything.... | |
 | British periodicals - 1901 - 984 pages
...seemed to stagger ; the harmony of nature appeared to have been deranged ; earth, air, sea, and sky all seemed to conspire against man, and to totter under...boiling spray upon the land ; the thunder pealed, the lightning rent the firmament. For a moment all was still ; a deep and awful silence reigned over... | |
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For a moment, and all was still, a deep and awful silence reigned over every thing. All nature appeared to be hushed, when suddenly a lengthened and sullen roar came booming through the forest, driving a thousand massive and devouring flames before it. 
