Search for: STORMS
1881 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEATHER.2 (Noah Webster)
… or storm, clearness or cloudiness, and the like; as warm weather; cold weather; wet weather; dry weather; calm weather; tempestuous weather; fair weather; cloudy …
1882 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEATHER.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Storm; tempest.
1883 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEATHER.12 (Noah Webster)
To weather out, to endure; to hold out to the end; as, to weather out a storm.
1884 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEATHER-DRIVEN.1 (Noah Webster)
WEATHER-DRIVEN, a. [weather and driven.] Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
1885 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WIND.2 (Noah Webster)
… gale, storm or tempest. The word gale is used by the poets for a moderate breeze, but seamen use it as equivalent to storm. Winds are denominated from the point …
1886 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WING.20 (Noah Webster)
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms.
1887 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 72.1 (D. A. Delafield)
… great storms that rage over the seas.
1888 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 115.2 (D. A. Delafield)
… a storm beginning to loom across the Blue Mountains. The clouds, however, seemed to be moving in a direction that would miss them. To be safe, the driver flicked …
1889 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 117.2 (D. A. Delafield)
… the storm slackened slightly, he reharnessed Jessie, gathered up the scattered cushions and other objects blown from the carriage, and drove into the yard …
1890 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 117.3 (D. A. Delafield)
… the storm from an upper story window. As the carriage came close to the house, she could see even at that distance that large swellings covered the horse’s …
1891 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 118.2 (D. A. Delafield)
… the storm had done, Mrs. White and her friends walked out to the orchard. Leaves and broken branches lay everywhere. The wind had blown off almost all the peaches …
1892 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 118.3 (D. A. Delafield)
… the storm things to be thankful about. For one thing, Jessie, the mare, had not kicked once during the storm despite the painful blows of the hail. Now Mrs. White …
1893 His Messenger, p. 110.1 (Ruth Wheeler)
Although Mrs. White was tired and almost sick from her long journey in the cold without good food, still she wrote, “We are already many times paid for facing the prairie winds and storms on our long and tedious journey to northern Iowa.”
1894 His Messenger, p. 148.1 (Ruth Wheeler)
“The strength of the rowers was exhausted, and yet the merciless storm had not abated, but was lashing the waves into a fury as though to engulf the boat and themselves. Oh, how they longed for Jesus.
1895 His Messenger, p. 148.2 (Ruth Wheeler)
… fearful storm. In their greatest need He was close by them.
1896 His Messenger, p. 150.5 (Ruth Wheeler)
… a storm. As Mrs. White lay in her berth looking out through the porthole onto the tossing waves, she thought of the ship’s compass. Although the ship was struggling …
1897 His Messenger, p. 151.1 (Ruth Wheeler)
… fierce storm she rested quietly in her stateroom. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee,” she softly repeated …
1898 “I'd Like To Ask Sister White ...”, p. 16.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… the storm was over. The children innocently told the whole story: “for ma says the lightning will not strike a house where the Advent people are.”
1899 “I'd Like To Ask Sister White ...”, p. 16.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… fearful storm. The heavens presented a continual sheet of lightning. A few rushed from their beds into the street, calling upon God for mercy, saying, “The judgment …
1900 “I'd Like To Ask Sister White ...”, p. 20.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… severe storm, and none of the neighbors came to our house. I was able to be up in the sitting room. And as some saw the windows of my room raised, they supposed I was …