| Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...attended with such a thunder-storm as can scarcely be imagined by those who have only seen that phenomenon in a temperate climate. It generally begins with violent...intermission ; sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds, near the horizon ; at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all... | |
| Thomas Dick - Atmosphere - 1799 - 200 pages
...is about to commence, it is ushered in by vast masses of clouds from the Indian ocean, accompanied with violent blasts of wind, which are succeeded by floods of rain, during which, the lightnings flash without intermission, and the thunders roll with loud and deafening... | |
| Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 pages
...attended with such a thunder-storm as can scarcely be imagined by those who have only seen that phenomenon in a temperate climate. It generally begins with violent...intermission, sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds, near the horizon ; at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all... | |
| 1819 - 384 pages
...storm as can scarcely be imagined by those who have only seen that phenomena in temperate climates. It generally begins with violent blasts of wind, which...intermission; sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds, near the horizon : at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all... | |
| 1819 - 382 pages
...storm as can scarcely be imagined by those who have only seen that phenomena in temperate climates. It generally begins with violent blasts of wind, which...intermission; sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds, near the horizon : at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all... | |
| English essays - 1823 - 536 pages
...storms as can scarcely be imagined by those who have only seen these phenomena in temperate climates. It generally begins with violent blasts of wind, which...intermission. Sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds-, near the horizon ; at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 858 pages
...with such a thunder- storm as can scarcely be imagined by those who have only seen that phenomenon in a temperate climate. It generally begins with violent...intermission ; sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds, near the horizon ; at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...a violent thunderstorm as can scarcely be imagined by those who have only witnessed the phenomenon in a temperate climate. It generally begins with violent...by floods of rain. For some hours lightning is seen without intermission ; sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds near the horizon... | |
| Hugh Murray - India - 1832 - 392 pages
...the night. It is attended by thunder-storms far eiceeding in intensity those of temperate regions. It generally begins with violent blasts of wind, which...intermission ; sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds near the horizon ; at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all... | |
| 1832 - 486 pages
...the night. It is attended by thunder-storms far exceeding in intensity those of temperate regions. It generally begins with violent blasts of wind, which...intermission ; sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds near the horizon ; at others it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all... | |
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