At this rate it held blowing till Wednesday, about one o'clock in the afternoon, which was that day seven-night on which it began ; so that it might be called one continued storm from Wednesday noon to Wednesday noon : in all which time, there was not... The Climate of London - Página 314por Luke Howard - 1820Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Luke Howard - 1818 - 774 páginas
...a great black cloud and some thunder, it brought a hasty shower of rain which allayed the storm, so that in a quarter of an hour it went off, and only...which a sailor would not have acknowledged it blew ;i storm ; and in that time two such terrible nights as I have described." Such a tempest could not... | |
| Samuel Seyer - 1823 - 658 páginas
...of the tempest increased to such a degree, that most people expected the fall of their houses. ---- At this rate it held blowing till Wednesday, about...noon ; in all which time there was not one interval of time in which a sailor would not have acknowledged that it blew a storm ; and in that time two such... | |
| Luke Howard - 1833 - 570 páginas
...before. " This sort of weather held all Sabbath-day, and Monday, till on Tuesday afternoon it encreased again, and all night blew with such fury that many...time two such terrible nights as I have described." Such a tempest could not be supposed to be limited to this island — accordingly it appears to have... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 488 páginas
...untiled again. Not but that I may allow those chimnies that fell now might have been disabled before. At this rate it held blowing till Wednesday, about...noon : in all which time, there was not one interval of time in which a sailor would not have acknowledged it blew a storm ; and in that time two such terrible... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 502 páginas
...untiled again. Not but that I may allow those chimnies that fell now might have been disabled before. At this rate it held blowing till Wednesday, about...noon: in all which time, there was not one interval of time in which a sailor would not have acknowledged it blew a storm ; and in that time two such terrible... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1867 - 460 páginas
...sterns one upon another, in such a manner as any one would have thought it had been impossible. . . . " This sort of weather held all Sabbath-day, and Monday,...time two such terrible nights as I have described." Such a tempest could not be supposed to be limited to this island ; accordingly it appears to have... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1867 - 462 páginas
...which was that day sevennight on which it began — so that it might be called one continued -M;orm from Wednesday noon to Wednesday noon. In all which...not one interval in which a sailor would not have acknotvledyed it blew a storm ; and in that time two such terrible nights as I have described." Such... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1869 - 488 páginas
...untiled again. Not but that I may allow those chimnies that fell now might have been disabled before. At this rate it held blowing till Wednesday, about...noon : in all which time, there was not one interval of time in which a sailor would not have acknowledged it blew a storm ; and in that time two such terrible... | |
| 1882 - 380 páginas
...till the 1st December. From Wednesday, 24th, to Wednesday, 1st December, were gales of great force ; "in all which time there was not one interval in which...sailor would not have acknowledged it blew a storm." The sea spray is said to have been felt far inland ; and at Cranbrook, in Kent, 16 miles from the sea... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1884 - 504 páginas
...untiled again. Not but that I may allow those chimnies that fell now might have been disabled before. At this rate it held blowing till Wednesday, about...it began ; so that it might be called one continued Btorm from Wednesday noon to Wednesday noon : in all which time, there was not one interval of time... | |
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