Word: waterspouts
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...would say, "gimme de bright lights. So she dragged him to a dry knoll, wiped his eyes of the slime, then struck West toward escape. A great buzzard flapped over her?omen of evil?and when she reached a clearing she could see a cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself by what de white folks calls...
...much interested in the inclosed piece of information [relative to cyclones] from TIME, Aug. 30. It does not however go far enough. What happens when a waterspout crosses the equator? Does it stop suddenly and start spinning in the opposite direction ? Or does it die of convulsions? Or What? I shall be obliged if you will inform...
...moments of imminent destruction. For a time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded contentment" with a supple, unpossessive Cornish girl, Jennifer. But she dies in childbirth and Tom wanders the oceans again, to shed life's monotony at last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece...
...travelled rapidly northward for about a mile in the course of five minutes and then disappeared. Fortunately, no incoming liners or plying ferry boats were in its path. It whisked a few pieces of lumber from a passing barge but otherwise no damage was done. It was the first waterspout ever observed in New York Harbor, and the good burghers of the city were inclined to view it with alarm...
Geological Conference. Paper: (1) The St. Louis Tornado of May 27, 1896. (2) The Waterspout off Martha's Vinevard, Aug. 19, 1896. (3) The Snowstorm of Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 1898. (Illustrated with stereopticon). Mr. R. DeC. Ward. Geological Lecture-room, M. Z., 8 p. m. Open to all members of the University...