 | 1817 - 628 pages
...after the subsidence of the grosser particles. ' On the 2nd of April, a tornado came on unexpectedly Before it began, the sky was clear, save 'a few small clouds in the North-west quarter, and the oniy antecedent warning it afforded, was the oppressive sultriness of the air and a vast number of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 686 pages
...we should probably have fared worse than we did, for it would have been an act of temerity to have tried to sit on the camels during its impetuous fury....the sky was clear, save a few small clouds in the noi i hw CM quarter ; and the only antecedent warning it afforded was the oppressive sultriness of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...fared worse than we did, for it would have been an act of temerity to have tried to sit on the tamels during its impetuous fury. Before it began, the sky...vast number of whirlwinds springing up on all sides ; the moment the Brahooe saw these whirlwinds disperse, which they did as if by magic, and a cloud... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...temerity to have tried to sit 011 the turnéis during its impetuous fur)'. Before it began, the sky vra* clear, save a few small clouds in the northwest quarter,...vast number of whirlwinds springing up on all sides , the moment . the Brahooé saw these whirl winds disperse, which they did as if by magic, and a cloud... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...been disastrous to hi* party; in whom it would have been an act of tciuc24* rity to have endeavoured to sit on the camels during its impetuous fury. Before...small clouds in the north-west quarter ; and the only warnings it afforded, were the oppressive sultriness of the air, and a vast number of whirlwinds springing... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...be< : . it might havi have been an arity to have endeavoured to sit on the camels during itimpetuous fury. Before it began, the sky was clear, save a few small clouds in the north-west quarter ; and tho only warnings it afforded, were the oppressive sultriness ot' tbe air, and a vast number of whirlwinds... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...have been disastrous to his party, in whom it would have been an act of temerity to have endeavoured to sit on the camels during its impetuous fury. Before...small clouds in the north-west quarter ; and the only warnings it afforded, were the oppressive sultriness of the air, and a vast number of whirlwinds springing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 862 pages
...we should probably have fared worse than we did, for it would have been an act of temerity to have tried to sit on the camels during its impetuous fury....vast number of whirlwinds springing up on all sides ; the moment the Brahocc saw these whirlwinds disperse, which they did as if by magic, and a cloud... | |
 | Henry Pottinger - History - 2004 - 472 pages
...we should probably have fared worse than we did, for it would have been an act of temerity to have tried to sit on the camels during its impetuous fury....moment the Brahooe saw • Sands. I have considered the Boodoor river, and its probable source, fully, in the second part of this work. t These whirlwind*... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 618 pages
...we should probably have fared worse than we did, for it would have been an act of temerity to have tried to sit on the camels during its impetuous fury....vast number of whirlwinds springing up on all sides ; the moment the Brahooe saw these whirlwinds disperse, which, they did as if by magic, and a cloud... | |
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It came on most unexpectedly, and had the guide not apprised me of its strength, we should probably have fared worse than we did, for it would have been an act of temerity to have tried to sit on the camels during its impetuous fury. Before it began the... 