 | Charles Ellms - Shipwrecks - 1841 - 606 pages
...flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time, the distant thunder never ceases to roll, •and is only silenced by some nearer peal, which bursts upon the ear with such a sudden and tremendous crash, as can scarcely fail to strike the most insensible... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - Afghanistan - 1842 - 472 pages
...flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced...length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continual pouring of the rain, and the rushing of the rising streams. The next day presents a gloomy... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 pages
...the distant hills, and again leaves all in darkness ; when, in an instant, it re-appears, in vivid successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects...tremendous crash, as can scarcely fail to strike the mostinsensible heart with awe. At length, the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continued... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1845 - 274 pages
...water channel IB filled with a torrent. The streets and level grounds are flooded with sheets of water. At length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continued pouring of the rain, and rushing of the rising streams. The second, and probably the third day of the monsoon, presents a gloomy... | |
 | Natural phenomena - 1846 - 142 pages
...flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced...length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continual pouring of the rain and the rushing of the rising streams. The next day presents a gloomy... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Atmospheric electricity - 1848 - 306 pages
...flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced...length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continual pouring of the rain and the rushing of the rising streams. The next day presents a gloomy... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced...continued pouring of the rain, and the rushing of rising streams. The next day presents a gloomy spectacle; the rain still descends in torrents, and... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...nearest objects in the brightness of day. During all this time, the distant thunder never ceases to roar, and is only silenced by some nearer peal, which bursts...heard but the continued pouring of the rain and the rising of the streams. The next day presents a gloomy spectacle, the rain still descends in torrents,... | |
 | Frances Osborne - Geography - 1850 - 344 pages
...flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced...At length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard I 3 but the continued pouring of the rain and the rushing of the rising streams.'" CHARLES. " I would... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1851 - 332 pages
...flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll, and is only silenced...At length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard I 3 but the continued pouring of the rain and the rushing of the rising streams.'" CHARLES. " I would... | |
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... illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds near the horizon ; at others, it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all in darkness, when in an instant it re-appears in vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the... 
