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    squalls


    1. the sigh on the point, the squall wraith,


    2. The first squall of wind carried away two carbon fibre masts of The Kaliantiakos and left just the foremast standing


    3. For her part, Belle remained silent in the face of their ranting and simply waited for the squall to settle


    4. snarled petulant hissing protests at the squall, in


    5. Today is just a minor disturbance, a short, sharp Atlantic squall


    6. He saw the three of them in close conversation and asked his wife, “Dear, are you alright after this squall? From the bridge, it was hair-raising


    7. While on the Onward, a heavy squall arrived, and the Hawes family had to wait until the skies cleared and the rain stopped before returning to their ship


    8. I hope you were paying attention last Spring when I demonstrated the ‘evasive cross-pattern tacking’ maneuver during that sudden squall


    9. Although it was 20 years ago, I still have a clear memory of huddling under a tree (a leaky tree) while waiting out a vicious squall


    10. I fell into a semi-conscious state of exhaustion as the squall

    11. because He had us doing a lot of praying before the squall hit


    12. Before Orphenn could growl a sarcastic remark, a squall of darkness whirled at


    13. These mind states quickly begin to destroy our peace and contentment, like a sudden squall destroying the tranquility of a lake


    14. Tires squall as I cut into the curb


    15. I look back over the past twenty-one years and can follow clearly your progress from your first squall of life…your first toddle…your first day in school and your days in Lawrenceville and Cornell…right on to your present status at The University of North Carolina


    16. A sudden unexpected squall of rain caught up with them as they, followed by the dogs, ran up the steps to the front door where Maggie was waiting for them


    17. Squall: a sudden stormy gust of rain and wind


    18. to cause those waves to form was a major sea squall or a massive


    19. He looked at me helplessly as wanting to express with words a squall of emotions


    20. Astray kept his balance in the prow with the butterfly riding his head and shouting oaths into the newborn squall

    21. The egg was not filled with miniature hurricanes, but with diminutive dragons rushing around the interior of the eggshell in endless cyclones; Jai had mistaken serpent for squall because the tiny spirits were formed of the water itself and were difficult to see at first


    22. Buddy informed Brad that he should not dally because there was a squall line headed for the beach, and they needed to land before it hit


    23. A storm squall hammered hard rain against the windows as Julie broke the


    24. In these outer bands of the tropical storm, thunder rolled stealthily as though it were a coiled rattlesnake waiting to strike when the squall finally broke and unleashed its fury; quiet bursts of lightning brilliantly flashed through the tall windows overlooking the veranda and the ocean and in the process cast ghostly, unnatural shadows across the richly appointed sitting areas where guests mingled before going to dinner


    25. To add a little seasoning to the visual feast, there was a constant parade of sails and every other type of floating craft imaginable, there were sun crystals shimmering on the water in the afternoons, and occasionally, there would be a southerly squall rampaging furiously up the harbour


    26. A biting south-westerly squall of rain had him scurrying across the road seeking the shelter of a hoarding which quoted the gospel – ‘John 3 :16


    27. They fell like a short squall of rain to the sidewalk, though Fred wasn’t waiting around to hear them fall


    28. A squall had provided the rest of his house


    29. The bundle of bedclothes moved and began to squall


    30. Despite the external squall of negative emotions, I had somewhere deep inside me a permanent, unchanging feeling of confidence in my own strength and full tran-quility

    31. Then a squall came through


    32. seen many a ski instructor get caught in a squall without their hat


    33. straining against the squall


    34. The squall that erupted from the creatures was chilling; it rang with determination and hunger


    35. All babies squall and yell


    36. okay when she opened her eyes and let out a squall


    37. of a white squall hope,


    38. The black clouds brought what sailors called a line squall, fierce winds that went from almost calm to near hurricane force in seconds, churning the formerly calm water into short, steep waves that washed over the boat from all sides at once


    39. much against the wind and not take into account the effect of an unexpected squall


    40. "Yesterday, when Aunt was asleep and I was trying to be as still as a mouse, Polly began to squall and flap about in his cage, so I went to let him out, and found a big spider there

    41. ' It was time; the squall was on us, and the vessel began to heel


    42. One day after sea search, as Phil was detouring around a squall, Cuppernell asked him if he’d dare fly into it


    43. When the next squall inched along the horizon, none of them had the strength to chase it


    44. Captain Fraidareck Chalkyr’s Challenger had lost her fore and main royal masts in a sudden squall three days after leaving Gorath


    45. Ahlkofahrdoh knew that because he’d been on deck when the squall came raging down on the convoy


    46. It was the bold, clamorous, self-assertive squall of the new human being, who had so incomprehensibly appeared


    47. Despite her unpleasing Appearance, Susannah and I were both so grateful for her Arrival (for the hungry Babe was fed and ceas’d at once to squall) that we should have thrown ourselves upon our Knees with Gratitude had she lookt like Medusa herself and threaten’d to turn us all to Stone


    48. The Squall would pass, the Wind be fair again, and I would scramble down the Mast, breathing a Sigh of deep Relief whilst all the Tars and I drank Toasts in Grog to Fairer Winds to come


    49. “Away with you! All Hands on Deck! The Sails are luffing! Should a Squall come up, we’ll surely founder! There’s Time enough to talk of Bonny later! For the nonce, we’re setting Sail again for Anegado! There’s a Fair Prize coming through the Anegado Passage and I mean to take her!”


    50. My small Size was some Advantage, as was the Swaying of the Ship—now somewhat diminish’d, as if the Squall were passing—but there was no Question that in an open Field he should cut me down in one deft Stroke, the Point of his Rapier seeking my Heart as ’twere some Homing Pigeon and my Heart its Coop


















    1. 'But I choked my ire and held my peace, and the judge squalled that I had shown contempt for the court, and that I should be hurled into a dungeon to rot until I betrayed my friend


    2. As he reached this chamber, he was flashingly aware of some small squat bulk on the floor ahead of him; then before he could check his flight or swerve aside, his foot struck something yielding that squalled shrilly, and he was precipitated headlong, the torch flying from his hand and being extinguished as it struck the stone floor


    3. Here, he knew, he might elude his hunters, but for that hellish bird that squalled incessantly above him


    4. squalled Polly, bending down from his perch on the back of her chair to peep into Jo's face, with such a comical air of impertinent inquiry that it was impossible to help laughing


    5. He had the bird! It fluttered, squalled in his hands


    1. “Please tell me she wasn’t starting that squalling again


    2. the Potter apartment was out back, so the squalling brat wouldn't disturb him


    3. And as that once rich and mighty land sank deeper and deeper into the black mire of the sunless jungle, so into the chaos of squalling jungle life sank the people of the city


    4. They are the descendants of the Atlanteans, sunk back into the squalling chaos of jungle- bestiality from which ages ago their ancestors so laboriously crawled


    5. Then they would gather the helpless squalling babies for the pot, laughing about how they wouldn’t have a lot of feathers to pluck


    6. Anyway, when Lonnie arrived old Pop was standing behind the locked gate cursing a blue streak and Hilda was straddling the gate squalling like a banshee with a toothache


    7. The downed pup wanted nothing more than to disengage from this tiny bundle of toothed energy and began squalling like a banshee


    8. Little Henry really went to squalling then and kept it up until the man dabbed some iodine on his ears and tail and let go of him


    9. O’er the squalling and the mist,


    10. All of its sounds and squalling and unhappiness are ignored as being normal for a baby

    11. Their squalling and wailing is mostly ignored, or pacified


    12. Not since the first squalling, half-developed human fetus was thrust unprepared out of its mother’s womb to be taken care of by its unprepared mother: who never had an infant that could not immediately crawl


    13. But they also are not grown up enough to pose any adult undead entity any threat either… they are not mature enough to challenge their parents when all they are, are squalling terrified traumatized bundles of pain and fear… begging to be loved and protected


    14. Being able to tell the difference between the squalling of a spoiled brat who needs a swift kick in the pants, and the honest tears of sorrow and unhappiness of a child that is being hurt is what sharing with other and they sharing with you will give you


    15. I turned to peer over the side of the wagon to behold a baby squalling in abject fear as the heat of the flames started to get close to it


    16. I instantly trusted both of them and handed the squalling child down to them


    17. My actions had seemed to amuse him and he had started to laugh with an inhuman squalling cackle that was nerve jarring


    18. Krista held the squalling little boy in her arms for a moment


    19. Of course the children tyrannized over her, and ruled the house as soon as they found out that kicking and squalling brought them whatever they wanted


    20. Such was the din of the bells and the squalling of the cats, that though the duke and duchess were the contrivers of the joke they were startled by it, while Don Quixote stood paralysed with fear; and as luck would have it, two or three of the cats made their way in through the grating of his chamber, and flying from one side to the other, made it seem as if there was a legion of devils at large in it

    21. Poor Hareton was squalling and kicking in his father's arms with all his might, and redoubled his yells when he carried him upstairs and lifted him over the banister


    22. I have known greater fools, who could read and write, than an experienced old beaver; but as for squalling, the animals are born dumb! What think you of such a song as this?"


    23. Gerty wished to goodness they would take their squalling baby home out of that and not get on her nerves, no hour to be out, and the little brats of twins


    24. squalling so desperately was his son


    25. Prissy and Wade scurried for the cellar and crouched in the cobwebbed darkness, Prissy squalling at the top of her voice and Wade sobbing and hiccoughing


    26. The Father said ’twas for the Country Air, but in Fact, ’twas for his own ease, both in having Access to his Wife, and in ne’er being awaken’d in the Night by a squalling Babe (or “Brat,” he would have said)


    27. Prue was hobbling across the Deck, dodging Combattants at ev’ry Turn, and I was in Pursuit (my Shirt now gaping open, revealing my Sex for all to see), following the Squalling of the Babe, praying that she would not be kill’d by Chance, and fighting off all Comers


    28. The Skiff hits the Water with a hideous Crash, near breaking into a thousand Pieces, but at once I catch a Glimpse of Belinda, a red and squalling Face crying upon the angry Waters


    29. Lord Bellars had no Wish to have his Sleep interrupted by a squalling Babe—for no Rake nor Man of Fashion would endure such Distractions; thus the Infant was sent to Griffith upon her Birth and left for near three Years


    30. Poor Hareton was squalling and kicking in his father’s arms with all his might, and redoubled his yells when he carried him up-stairs and lifted him over the banister

    31. When the persistent clamor of the brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thenardier would say; "do go and see what he wants


    32. "I have no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother


    33. Then Sim hurled himself unsteadily, the two of them fell in a ridiculous jumble, rolling, until Dark pried them, squalling, apart


    34. When they came in—when Joe let the ship down on the squalling wheels and dropped in the protesting nose wheel—they had gotten themselves in hand enough so that they could be nonchalant


    1. That, and in the mechanics of unloading big crates onto the quay in forecasted squalls


    2. Trees, where they stand in thin knots, are bent and misshapen, pointing out the path of least resistance to Atlantic squalls


    3. The past several days, however, had seen intermittent rain squalls and rougher


    4. violent squalls of wind


    5. She had not yet taken the time to closely examine the perpetual squalls that raged within them


    6. The weather was crap, with lumpy seas, squalls and a cold wind but it didn’t


    7. Two hours later, the storm raged on more violently than any of the other previous squalls that had heralded the arrival of the strong eye wall of the hurricane, with gusts from the north reaching almost ninety miles per hour and the surge at almost ten feet that at low tide still was nearly twenty yards from the high dunes whose sea oats flapped furiously in the wind


    8. Watching the snow squalls move in from the west


    9. snow squalls could have us tied up for days


    10. A couple of squalls interrupted diving during the day and

    11. What she wanted to shut out was the wind sobbing up and down that terrace behind her, and the consciousness of the fierce intermittent squalls of rain beating on its flags, and the certainty that upstairs


    12. The heavy rains accompanied by the strong squalls of the previous night had left their mark on the roads with branches of trees blocking lanes, blocked gutters and drains overflowing, and in some areas actual road surfaces crumbling at the edges, or cracking and forming gaping pot holes which jarred vehicles, sorely testing suspension systems


    13. Why are the squalls of babies not understood? Why they are unhappy is something that is not reflectively understood by adults


    14. Babies were swaddled by a shoulder-head wrap of cloth that blossomed openly and widely around their bodies because it was the perfect way to rape a baby or child at night without anyone hearing a thing except muffled squalls of horror and agony


    15. squalls looked ready to buck the city once again


    16. There had certainly been squalls earlier on, but at


    17. case of squalls and sea storms


    18. Violent squalls assaulted us during the daytime


    19. Unshaken by these squalls, Captain Nemo stationed himself on the platform


    20. A flock of gulls squalls overhead

    21. There were squalls of rain on the wind


    22. Twice, the men rowed toward distant squalls, but each time, the rain sputtered out just as they reached it, leaving them exhausted and demoralized


    23. It had been an afternoon of low cloud and summer squalls, so overcast that at times I had stopped work and roused Julia from the light trance in which she sat - she had sat so often; I never tired of painting her, forever finding in her new wealth and delicacy -


    24. I hadn’t seen Pete since we walked off the stage at Glastonbury to the squalls of guitars feeding back at the end of “Instant Karma,” when The Attractions had made what we all assumed would be their final appearance


    25. You will get better at not being carried away by your passing emotional squalls; you will learn—maybe 10% of the time, maybe more—to respond, not react


    26. But when the Wind freshen’d suddenly and Squalls o’ercame us in a trice, Nature herself turn’d from Helpmeet to Harridan and Harmony turn’d to Horror! O what Panick suffus’d our Hearts as we scurried up the Masts to take in the Sails lest we heel o’er into the Drink! I learnt to be as nimble in clambering up a Mast barefoot as any Common Tar, but ne’er did I do so without a Pounding in my Breast that seem’d to say: Turn back, turn back, this is no Task for the Fair! Yet I still’d those Voices and continu’d just the same, for I had Contempt for Womanish Fears and fancied myself neither Man nor Woman but a Combination of the noblest Qualities of the twain! Always in my Life have I sought to press myself to do the Things I’ve fear’d the most; for only when one snatches Fear by the Scruff of its Neck and proclaims oneself its Mistress, doth one live Life to the fullest


    27. Towards one o'clock in the morning, the night being very dark, he saw two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of the dormer-window which was opposite his cage


    28. The rain had become intermittent now—little wet squalls and quiet times


    29. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a squall! But those chaps there are worse yet—they are your white squalls, they


    30. White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! Here have I heard all their chat just now, and the white whale—shirr! shirr!—but spoken of once! and only this evening—it makes me jingle all over like my tambourine—that anaconda of an old man swore 'em in to hunt him! Oh, thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!

    31. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will


    32. From the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the excited seamen


    33. We sailed on for some time in the full tide of successful experiment, unobstructed by squalls or adverse gales, if we except only the Yazoo breeze


    34. —, —, causes of thunder-storms, gusts, squalls and water-spouts, xxxiii, 56, 58, 60


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