 ... in two hours), whilst the wind had risen to half a gale. At this time in the SE, low, long-rolling distant thunder gave ominous signs of an approaching storm of great magnitude. The sky gradually became blacker and blacker until, at five o'clock,...  The weather guide-book - Página 102de Alfred John Pearce (astrologer.) - 1864Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | George Augustus Rowell - 1875 - 308 páginas
...fallen to 60°, a descent of I3°6 in two hours . . . The sky gradually became blacker and blacker, until at five o'clock it was darker than I had ever before seen it except during a total eclipse of the sun . . . Rain fell in torrents, but not in an ordinary manner;... | |
 | 1862 - 558 páginas
...ominous signs of an approaching storm of great magnitude. The sky gradually became blacker and blacker until, at five o'clock, it was darker than I had ever...scarcely read at a window, nor away from it could the time be ascertained by a watch. This storm put on very much the appearance of a total eclipse, all... | |
 | 1862 - 552 páginas
...ominous signs of an approaching storm of great magnitude. The sky gradually became blacker and blacker until, at five o'clock, it was darker than I had ever...scarcely read at a window, nor away from it could the time be ascertained by a watch. This storm put on very much the appearance of a total eclipse, all... | |
 | 1863 - 798 páginas
...had ever seen it before in the daytime, with the solitary exception of during a total solar eclipse ; a book could be scarcely read at a window, nor away from it could the time be ascertained by a watch. All near objects had a yellowish glare cast upon them ; and the landscape... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1863 - 874 páginas
...half a gale. The thunder, though distant, was frequent. The sky gradually became blacker and blacker, until at five o'clock it was darker than I had ever before seen it except during a total eclipse of the sun. A book with bold type could scarcely be read at a window,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1863 - 864 páginas
...half a gale. The thunder, though distant, was frequent. The sky gradually became blacker and blacker, until at five o'clock it was darker than I had ever before seen it except during a total eclipse of the sun. A book with bold type could scarcely be read at a window,... | |
 | George Augustus Rowell - 1880 - 70 páginas
...fallen to 60°, a descent of I3°6 in two hours . . . The sky gradually became blacker and blacker, until at five o'clock it was darker than I had ever before seen it except during a total eclipse of the sun . . . Rain fell in torrents, but not in an ordinary manner;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1863 - 860 páginas
...had ever seen it before in the daytime, with the solitary exception of during a total solar eclipse ; a book could be scarcely read at a window, nor away from it could the time be ascertained by a watch. AH near objects had a yellowish glare cast upon them ; and the landscape... | |
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