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  • After a while, the squall began to subside and the thunderclouds scudded away from the center of town.†   (source)
  • Outside the windows, snow swept by in the muted half-light, the pressure of the wind against the glass the only thing audible, a dull thudding with each squall of flakes.†   (source)
  • Sounds like no more than a passing squall.†   (source)
  • They didn't squall like children and hide in the woods.†   (source)
  • Beyond that the ocean vast and cold and shifting heavily like a slowly heaving vat of slag and then the gray squall line of ash.†   (source)
  • By the time we finally made it over there the blue skies had disappeared abruptly, replaced by a sudden squall.†   (source)
  • He didn't notice how cold it had suddenly become, he didn't notice the wind, he didn't notice the sudden irrational squall of rain.†   (source)
  • "He's the loudest squaller I got.†   (source)
  • After another squall of sharp clicks, the Ra'zac said, "He has almossst found thename."†   (source)
  • I was met by a loud squall.†   (source)
  • "Jeez," I said, as one of them let out a squall next to my sneaker.†   (source)
  • A squall had blown in.†   (source)
  • "Good day," the mailman said, handing him a large, neatly wrapped brown envelope, and Litvinoff did not have to weigh the evidence for long to come to the conclusion that while a moment ago the day had verged on being excellent, more than he could have hoped for, it suddenly had changed like the direction of a squall on the horizon.†   (source)
  • The wind in the eucalyptus trees stirred up the kind of dry rustling sound that could fool you into thinking it was a rain squall.†   (source)
  • Outside, a squall began to force waves of rain against the windows like handfuls of tossed pebbles.†   (source)
  • But as soon as my fingers close around Mia's, the thing I notice is that it stops and suddenly it goes quiet, like when the squall of feedback is suddenly cut when someone switches off an amp.†   (source)
  • But there was nothing tame about that indelible moment, during the C-section, when the doctor reached into my wife, and a bloody head appeared, straight up, followed by Hadley's full emergence and a wild squall of life as her little arms rose over her head in victory.†   (source)
  • A squall had blown in, and the first drops began to fall.†   (source)
  • On April 11, Nathanael Greene and his brigade pushed off in a blinding snow squall.†   (source)
  • I did not squall out when the light changed—she was not that kind of car—but let her rpm's build, build and build, like winding up a top.†   (source)
  • Like Boston harbor in a squall, General.†   (source)
  • Through a rain squall she spotted two figures about fifty yards down the beach.†   (source)
  • But soon enough the girl began to squall, whereupon she was promptly whisked off to bed by her wet nurse.†   (source)
  • "Lord, he's starting to squall!†   (source)
  • She turned away from Rex, missing his reply, unable to concentrate as the school-with its noisy squall of anxiety, boredom, desire, misdirected energy, worry, competition, cheerleader pep, stifled anger, a little joy, and too much outright fear-swallowed her.†   (source)
  • Alessandro's clothes were soaked with sweat and blood, and his eyelashes were stuck to his eyebrows by drops of blood that had blown against his face like raindrops in a squall.†   (source)
  • He had swept in like a mighty squall off the Sea of Moving Ice.†   (source)
  • During the worst squall, she had counted thirteen containers scattered around the apartment, each with its own rhythm and pitch.†   (source)
  • It grew until the mushroom's rim looked like the leading edge of an approaching weather front, black, purple, orange, green, a cancerous man-created line squall.†   (source)
  • San Narciso was a name; an incident among our climatic records of dreams and what dreams became among our accumulated daylight, a moment's squall line or tornado's touchdown among the higher, more continental solemnities—storm systems of group suffering and need, prevailing winds of affluence.†   (source)
  • I made my way upstairs in a black squall of gusty, shifting emotion.†   (source)
  • They walked stiffly through the small station and came out of a heavy door into the squall of traffic.†   (source)
  • By late afternoon the squall had metastasized into another major storm.   (source)
    squall = small snowstorm
  • When the next squall inched along the horizon, none of them had the strength to chase it.   (source)
    squall = storm
  • This time I climbed only 120 feet above the bergschrund before lack of composure and the arrival of a snow squall forced me to turn around.   (source)
  • One day after sea search, as Phil was detouring around a squall, Cuppernell asked him if he'd dare fly into it.   (source)
  • It was still clear, but a thin, wispy scum of cirrus had spread across the upper atmosphere, and a dark line of squalls was visible just above the southwestern horizon.   (source)
    squalls = storms
  • There's a squall ahead.   (source)
    squall = windy storm
  • The next day a sudden squall descended on them.†   (source)
  • Not a squall necessarily, but the circumstances.†   (source)
  • With one loud squall, he scooted under the barn.†   (source)
  • With a squall of pain and rage, the big cat rolled over on his side, dragging Little Ann with him.†   (source)
  • He let out a loud squall, growled, and showed his teeth.†   (source)
  • I heard the ringtail squall when she grabbed him.†   (source)
  • Hearing a squall of pain from Little Ann, I turned.†   (source)
  • In fact, the gale of May 10, though violent, was nothing extraordinary; it was a fairly typical Everest squall.†   (source)
  • We were sitting in the shelter, waiting for a sudden squall to stop so that we could walk around the rear gardens of the castle.†   (source)
  • Now, low clouds scudded just above a sloshing sea, and to the east, a squall—twisted tightly like a whip—threatened from the horizon.†   (source)
  • Conversely, when a rain squall is replenishing your freshwater supplies, you also know that the humidity will affect your cured provisions and that some will probably go bad, turning pasty and green.†   (source)
  • A sudden squall had saved him.†   (source)
  • "My little bark has been overset in a squall of thunder and light-fling and hail attended by a strong smell of sulfur," he wrote to Thomas.†   (source)
  • On the Wings of Doom They came in under the cover of a violent squall line that swept down upon Ten-Towns from the open east.†   (source)
  • That very night, the wind picked up, the leaves were swishing and rustling, and by morning a squall arrived, heralding the long rains.†   (source)
  • No squall could frighten Dany, though.†   (source)
  • But by the time he and Dish hit the north shore and regained their wet saddles, he realized it was more than a squall.†   (source)
  • The last storm had been thrilling, intoxicating, a sudden squall that had left him feeling cleansed and refreshed.†   (source)
  • Thrice Temmo sent his archers wheeling past and arrows fell like rain upon the Three Thousand, but the Unsullied merely lifted their shields above their heads until the squall had passed.†   (source)
  • The clothesline sagging with diapers (banners to fecundity) and raising a flapping alarm before a rain squall, sending Almaz and Rosina racing outside.†   (source)
  • A squall blew up as they were starting the cattle into the water, and by the time Old Dog was across the twenty yards of swimming water, Dish on one side of him and Call on the other, the gray sky suddenly began to spit out little white pellets.†   (source)
  • Gus looked so weak and shaky that Pea Eye wondered if he could still shoot accurately, but the question was answered later in the day when an Indian tried to shoot them from the opposite bank, using a little rain squall as cover.†   (source)
  • When a sudden squall had enveloped them six days into the voyage, she heard them through the hatches; the horses kicking and screaming, the riders praying in thin quavery voices each time Balerion heaved or swayed.†   (source)
  • A baby began to squall with hellish abandon behind me, and it occurred to me that in public conveyances fate inevitably positioned the single screaming infant in the seat nearest my own.†   (source)
  • Well, she sho' kin squall," Dave Carter contributed.†   (source)
  • This looks like a pretty bad squall coming up and that water gets plenty choppy.†   (source)
  • After a while the child begins to squall, although Albert, in desperation, rocks it to and fro.†   (source)
  • But why should you squall like a scalded cat?†   (source)
  • In a blizzard, a gale, a sudden line squall, a tropical storm, or a summer thunder shower in the mountains there was an excitement that came to him from no other thing.†   (source)
  • And all the not bright days with the eaves dripping or the squall driving in from the sea and with the fire on the hearth were Anne Stanton, too.†   (source)
  • 'She must have gone down for something, and then the door jammed, and a squall caught the boat without anyone at the helm,' said Colonel Julyan.†   (source)
  • The crowd split like water before a prow, reformed in the wake, surged round the ambulance, babbling, squall— (scended.†   (source)
  • When the squall had passed, the silence in the room grew denser, filled only by the silent turmoil of the unseen battle.†   (source)
  • Rieux, whose attention had been diverted momentarily by the noises of the squall, looked again across the shadows at Tarrou's face, on which fell the light of a small bedside lamp.†   (source)
  • That was the way it was for the last week, while the days stayed hot and breathless, and clouds piled up in the late afternoons as though promising a squall but the squall didn't come, and the nights were as heavy and blunt as a big black silver-dusted grape ready to burst.†   (source)
  • She could defend herself, thank you, and if the old cats wanted to squall— well, she could get along without the old cats.†   (source)
  • A squall might, and did, pile in off the Gulf, and the sky blacked out with the rain and the palm trees heaved in distraction and then leaned steady with the vanes gleaming like wet tin in the last turgid, bilious, tattered light, but it didn't chill us or kill us in the kingdom by the sea, for we were safe inside a white house, their house or my house, and stood by the window to watch the surf pile up beyond the sea wall like whipped cream.†   (source)
  • They were in flight before a distant throbbing which gradually approached until the street was loud with the clamor of the downpour; another rain-squall was sweeping the town, mingled presently with hailstones that clattered on the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • …and who was clucking soft, and whose own face was happy, for that was the word for what his face was, and as I looked at him I suddenly saw the man in the long white room by the sea, the same man but a different man, and the rain of the squall driving in off the sea in the early dark lashed the windowpanes but it was a happy sound and safe because the fire danced on the hearth and on the windowpanes where the rain ran down to thread the night-black glass with silver, to mix the…†   (source)
  • But I had come a long way, too, from that long white room by the sea, I had got up off that hearthrug before the fire, where I had sat with my tin circus wagon and my colored crayons and paper, listening to the squall-driven rain on the glass, and where Daddy had leaned to say, "Here's what Daddy brought tonight," and I had come to this room where Jack Burden leaned against the wall with a cigarette in his mouth.†   (source)
  • The scream of the panther was heard there, the squall of the wildcat, the cough of the jaguar.†   (source)
  • Rush the camp at night an' squall an' chase off the horses?†   (source)
  • This last squall had rendered the Indian girl's trail difficult to follow.†   (source)
  • So I was not altogether surprised when the squall foretold by Louis smote me.†   (source)
  • It was a quarter of a mile away when a thick squall of rain veiled it from view.†   (source)
  • He saw a silent black squall which had eaten up already one-third of the sky.†   (source)
  • A rain-squall drove past, and out of the flying wet the boat emerged, almost upon us.†   (source)
  • As the first boat was lowered ship went down in a squall.†   (source)
  • It was time; the squall was on us, and the vessel began to heel.†   (source)
  • " 'Tis nothing, I say, but a small matter of a squall that will soon blow over," continued Benjamin.†   (source)
  • The squall! the squall! jump, my jollies!†   (source)
  • "Whew!" he whistled at last—"the squall's gone off to leeward, I think.†   (source)
  • The squall!†   (source)
  • It looked like snow, more snow— it was in such short supply, after all—a good, solid squall of it.†   (source)
  • Got lost in that squall.†   (source)
  • At that instant, as it seemed to him, the air was chilled and, looking askance towards the water, he saw a flying squall darkening and crisping suddenly the tide.†   (source)
  • "No, but still, there was snow at Tiflis, Montana, yesterday," said the Scholar, "and you remember the blizzard they had out West three days ago—thirty inches of snow at Greeley, Colorado—and two years ago we had a snow-squall right here in Zenith on the twenty-fifth of April."†   (source)
  • Everything had happened at once—the blow, the counter-blow, the squeal of agony from the porcupine, the big cat's squall of sudden hurt and astonishment.†   (source)
  • And even he could not repress a start and an involuntary bristling of hair along his back when she suddenly leaped, without warning, straight up in the air, at the same time emitting a long and most terrible squall.†   (source)
  • The squall enveloped him, thicker and colder and windier than the other, but, being better fortified, he did not suffer so much.†   (source)
  • The squall passed as swiftly as it had come, and it left Shefford so benumbed he could not hold the bridle.†   (source)
  • A squall swooped and roared down upon him, and the wind that bore the driving white pellets of snow, almost like hail, was so freezing bitter cold that the former wind seemed warm in comparison.†   (source)
  • Being thus out of trim, when the squall struck her a little on the quarter, she swung head to wind as sharply as though she had been at anchor.†   (source)
  • Her first nod to the swell that precedes the burst of such a squall would be also her last, would become a plunge, would, so to speak, be prolonged into a long dive, down, down to the bottom.†   (source)
  • Here's the squall down on us…."†   (source)
  • I myself remember that a Norwegian barque bound out with a cargo of pitch-pine had been given up as missing about that time, and it was just the sort of craft that would capsize in a squall and float bottom up for months—a kind of maritime ghoul on the prowl to kill ships in the dark.†   (source)
  • They turned their backs to the squall; the skipper, it seems, got an oar over the stern to keep the boat before it, and for two or three minutes the end of the world had come through a deluge in a pitchy blackness.†   (source)
  • Then, the squall being very near now, another and a heavier swell lifted the passive hull in a threatening heave that checked his breath, while his brain and his heart together were pierced as with daggers by panic-stricken screams.†   (source)
  • The squall!†   (source)
  • A squall was on the way.†   (source)
  • Well, we are going to have a squall.†   (source)
  • The next moment the heavy implement was raised aloft; the next, there was a crash and a squall, and the cat was off on three legs to meet an engagement; Roxy would arrive just as the lamp or a window went to irremediable smash.†   (source)
  • It was the bold, clamorous, self-assertive squall of the new human being, who had so incomprehensibly appeared.†   (source)
  • Jimmini, what a squall!†   (source)
  • 'We thought now was our time to get a shot at the cranes and cautiously approached; but they were too cunning to let themselves be surprised, and we came unexpectedly upon their outposts or sentinels, who instantly sprang into the air uttering loud trumpet-like cries, upon which the whole flock arose and followed them with a rush like a sudden squall of wind.†   (source)
  • In cold weather he was distinguished by a fur cap, surmounted with a flaunting fox's tail; and when the folks at a country gathering descried this well-known crest at a distance, whisking about among a squad of hard riders, they always stood by for a squall.†   (source)
  • He restrained himself however, and the little squall would have blown over, but for one unlucky word.†   (source)
  • At Dom Claude's proposition, the open and benign face of the poet had abruptly clouded over, like a smiling Italian landscape, when an unlucky squall comes up and dashes a cloud across the sun.†   (source)
  • He would cry for nothing; he would burst into storms of devilish temper without notice, and let go scream after scream and squall after squall, then climax the thing with "holding his breath"—that frightful specialty of the teething nursling, in the throes of which the creature exhausts its lungs, then is convulsed with noiseless squirmings and twistings and kickings in the effort to get its breath, while the lips turn blue and the mouth stands wide and rigid, offering for inspection…†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The Rangoon reefed all her sails, and even the rigging proved too much, whistling and shaking amid the squall.†   (source)
  • "What for should ye, master?" grumbled Benjamin; "I've rode out one squall to-day anchored by the heels, and I wants no more of them.†   (source)
  • The last vibration of the twelfth stroke had hardly died away when all heads surged like the waves beneath a squall, and an immense shout went up from the pavement, the windows, and the roofs, "There she is!"†   (source)
  • A sort of tempest arose on the 3rd of November, the squall knocking the vessel about with fury, and the waves running high.†   (source)
  • "Give way, men," whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the sheet of his sail; "there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall comes.†   (source)
  • The undulations of the human surge reached the steps, while all the heads floundered on the surface like a sea agitated by a squall.†   (source)
  • From its snowy aspect, the gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall.†   (source)
  • The whole crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the white curdling cream of the squall.†   (source)
  • "Not much," I replied—"nothing but water; considerable horizon though, and there's a squall coming up, I think."†   (source)
  • Squall, whale, and harpoon had all blended together; and the whale, merely grazed by the iron, escaped.†   (source)
  • Ere the squall came close to, the other boats had cut loose from their fish and returned to the ship in good time.†   (source)
  • I heard old Ahab tell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a waterspout with a pistol—fire your ship right into it!†   (source)
  • I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman's discretion?"†   (source)
  • So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together.†   (source)
  • The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together; the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal in these jaws of death!†   (source)
  • "Corkscrew!" cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones too, where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment or two, in a sudden squall say—to seize hold of the nearest oarsman's hair, and hold on there like grim death.†   (source)
  • Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table.†   (source)
  • …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,…†   (source)
  • Yes, and we flipped it at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it's squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands—visitors and all—were called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars.†   (source)
  • …Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions,…†   (source)
  • He fell on the battle line like a high screaming squall that blows down on the purple open sea!†   (source)
  • In crossing the bay, we met with a squall that tore our rotten sails to pieces, prevented our getting into the Kill and drove us upon Long Island.†   (source)
  • Your lovers have found you like a brazier which smoulders in the cold, a backdoor which keeps out neither squall of wind nor storm, a castle which crushes the garrison, pitch that blackens the bearer, a water-skin that chafes the carrier, a stone which falls from the parapet, a battering-ram turned back from the enemy, a sandal that trips the wearer.†   (source)
  • All their finest men were shaken by this fear, in bitter throes, as when a shifting gale blows up over the cold fish-breeding sea, north wind and west wind wailing out of Thrace in squall on squall, and dark waves crest, and shoreward masses of weed are cast up by the surf: so were Akhaian hearts torn in their breasts.†   (source)
  • Break it open—now!'
    A fatal plan, but it won my shipmates over.
    They loosed the sack and all the winds burst out
    and a sudden squall struck and swept us back to sea,
    wailing, in tears, far from our own native land.
    And I woke up with a start, my spirit churning—
    should I leap over the side and drown at once or
    grit my teeth and bear it, stay among the living?
    I bore it all, held firm, hiding my face,
    clinging tight to the decks
    while heavy squalls blasted our squadron…†   (source)
  • When dinner was almost done, the nurse came in with a child of a year old in her arms, who immediately spied me, and began a squall that you might have heard from London-Bridge to Chelsea, after the usual oratory of infants, to get me for a plaything.†   (source)
  • "—"A storm, you fool you," said he, "this is nothing; a good ship and sea-room always baffles such a foolish squall of wind as that: But you're a fresh water sailor: Come boy, turn out, see what fine weather we have now, and a good bowl of punch will drown all your past sorrows."†   (source)
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  • It was very quiet, except for the squalling of a few of the babies.†   (source)
  • I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.†   (source)
  • One day Cynthia came home to find Louie gripping a squalling Cissy in his hands, shaking her.†   (source)
  • And all infants need the same simple things, pup or child, squalling or mute.†   (source)
  • I turned to see lights on in the building across from us, shining faintly through the snow squalls, and then my mind clicked.†   (source)
  • One of the current events we studied in social studies class was the unusual number of small planes that had gone down in sudden squalls in the Atlantic that year.†   (source)
  • A flock of gulls squalls overhead.†   (source)
  • I tell her about the cold squirrel stew and the squalling children.†   (source)
  • I have only to look at you to remember the day you came into the world, red-faced and squalling.†   (source)
  • As I ducked out again and ran the flooded sidewalk to Park Avenue—socks squelching, cold rain pelting in my face— I regretted I'd bought them at all and came close to tossing them in a trash can, only the squalls of rain were so fierce I couldn't bring myself to slow down, for even a moment, and ran on.†   (source)
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  • Prams might be packed with four or five babies squalling away because the prams are old and the wheels bockety and the babies are rocked till they get sick and throw up their goody.†   (source)
  • A helicopter evacuation was requested for Wednesday morning, April 24, but clouds and snow squalls made a flight impossible, so Ngawang was loaded into a basket and, under Hunt's care, carried down the glacier to Pheriche on the backs of Sherpas.†   (source)
  • Snow squalls moved across the prairie and gave the illusion of whitecaps on the numberless stalks of high grass.†   (source)
  • The sun emerged late in the morning, though squalls continued to sweep Jackson Park through much of the day.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife is squalling.†   (source)
  • The axlecaps of the wheels squalled against the wood, but he was able to get through.†   (source)
  • He didn't come out squalling like you see on TV.†   (source)
  • Two more bird-people immediately dropped onto the cats with a hideous squalling.†   (source)
  • We were banished here, the three of us—the four of us, I should say; Alec was a squalling baby when we left the Glass City.†   (source)
  • When he was home he would go to the tavern, to get away from the squalling.†   (source)
  • Just then Trapis came back, carrying several flat loaves of bread under one arm and a squalling child in the other.†   (source)
  • If it's just thunderheads or broken line squalls you can try to ride around them, but this one isn't.†   (source)
  • Kabuo, his radio on, checked his barometer; it still held steady despite talk of rough weather, cold squalls of sleet reported to the north, out of the Strait of Georgia.†   (source)
  • There were birch trees—bj0rketreer—all around the large garden, sheltering it partly, at least, from the worst squalls.†   (source)
  • It was nearly full dark, and the rain spattered in squalls against my face.†   (source)
  • Prior to the Clutter mystery, the four cases cited were the sum of Dewey's experience with murder, and measured against the case confronting him, were as squalls preceding a hurricane.†   (source)
  • Still he could hear them, Beans and Mutto squalling like alleycats on the back porch roof.†   (source)
  • Samie told her with his spitting and squalling.†   (source)
  • There were squalls of rain on the wind.†   (source)
  • Dwayne Ray started squalling, and Lou Ann excused herself to go put him to bed.†   (source)
  • In the night the coyotes woke them and they lay in the dark and listened to them where they convened over the carcass of the deer, fighting and squalling like cats.†   (source)
  • The baby squalled, and Katrina said, "Shh, now," and patted her on the back.†   (source)
  • The young man didn't need his lance--he could just take the squalling baby back to its mother.†   (source)
  • Rain squalls on February 18 similarly halted the action.†   (source)
  • Squalling morning, noon, and night.†   (source)
  • "Does not happen," he whispered, and slid forward into the brawling, squalling mass of pork.†   (source)
  • Plymouth assumes it was one of those whipsaw squalls that can come out of south Nevis, but it's hard to swallow.†   (source)
  • He heard the sound of the chopper and watched as it banked through the storm squalls down towards the helipad.†   (source)
  • But with snow squalls and winds gathering to gale force, it was not until two days later that a barge was lowered.†   (source)
  • "Mommee …. mommee …." the kid squalled.†   (source)
  • Deo's baby brother had started squalling while being christened, and in irritation the priest had slapped the baby.†   (source)
  • It was a continuous squalling, cussing and yelling all the way; like a big ball of sound that rolled down the trail until I couldn't hear it anymore.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Bellagrog had been right—now seemed a good time to find —a snug, hidden corner and wait out the squalls and storms of the world.†   (source)
  • The poor baby sat staring at its, then dropped his chicken bone and commenced squalling.†   (source)
  • I would like to remind you, dear, and for the information of your pimply cadet, that your father and I were duly married in the eyes of the Lord a full three years before I brought you squalling into Charleston society.†   (source)
  • Other squalls and rainstorms came up over the next few weeks, but they were nothing like "The Storm" and were weathered without much difficulty or any loss of life.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the women would come with twins hanging round their necks; appears like I never see so many twins in my life; bags on their shoulders, baskets on their heads, and young ones tagging behind, all loaded; pigs squealing, chickens screaming, young ones squalling.†   (source)
  • How could I have been so selfish, thinking I had it so tough, having to come home to a squalling baby every night?†   (source)
  • For three days there had been a howling blizzard; then, during the third day, with visibility reduced to zero by blinding snow squalls, an aircraft came over the hotel at nought feet and with an expiring stutter flopped down on the ice of a nearby pond.†   (source)
  • Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.†   (source)
  • A terrible drawn-out groan escaped Sophie then, so loud and tormented that only the frenzied squalling of the Andrews Sisters prevented it from being heard throughout the entire bar.†   (source)
  • The squalling yard had contained its own life, had been its own complete world, for so long.†   (source)
  • "They'll be squalling soon enough.†   (source)
  • The baby, who had slept through all the clamour, woke up now in the sudden hush and began squalling.†   (source)
  • John walked into his parents' bedroom and picked up the squalling baby, who was wet.†   (source)
  • Reich squalled and twitched.†   (source)
  • The side of the mower squalled along the side of the cruiser and took off some paint.†   (source)
  • Then he went to pick up Teddy, who was squalling from his bassinet.†   (source)
  • Ours is the blood of ancient Ghis, whose empire was old when Valyria was yet a squalling child.†   (source)
  • And a year later Oberyn arrived, squalling and kicking.†   (source)
  • —mother to that squalling babe who keeps us awake at night.†   (source)
  • It was too much for him and he took off down the street, squalling like a scalded cat.†   (source)
  • Healthy as a water buffalo, except he squalls.†   (source)
  • Smiles and scowls should not come upon you like sudden squalls.†   (source)
  • "Can't you give that squalling baby to the women?" he asked.†   (source)
  • When he was not squalling, he was retching up his mother's milk.†   (source)
  • He would carry that churn lid all over the house, squalling and growling.†   (source)
  • Family couldn't keep the win-das open, on account of the squalling.†   (source)
  • I remember he was squalling like the dickens that night.†   (source)
  • A young mother climbed in after him, a babe not much older than Gilly's squalling in her arms.†   (source)
  • Boy or girl, it will be red, wrinkled, and squalling, and like as not she'll want to name it Walder or Walda."†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes at the last minute as the savage cat-headed creature slammed into his chest, expecting to feel the sting of its claws, to hear its squalling roar in his face but all he heard was a gentle purring.†   (source)
  • Girls stretched and writhed under the hot water, squalling, flicking water, squirting white bars of soap from hand to hand.†   (source)
  • There were rains and even swift black squalls, but nothing to approximate the terrors of the nor'easter he had experienced.†   (source)
  • The boy had been a squalling pink thing who demanded too much of Cersei's time, Cersei's love, and Cersei's breasts.†   (source)
  • A year later this same wench had the impudence to turn up at the Dreadfort with a squalling, red-faced monster that she claimed was my own get.†   (source)
  • There Arya was healed, and there Eragon blessed a squalling infant by the name of Elva, blessed her to be shielded from misfortune.†   (source)
  • I was just fixing to get up off the back steps and go gather the eggs when Campbell junior started squalling in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • It was like he didn't hear the silence that greeted them and didn't see Mama go pale or Aunt Lonia flounce out of the parlor and down the hall, handling the baby so rough he woke up squalling.†   (source)
  • Above them, the baby was squalling.†   (source)
  • "I gave you all I could spare, but winter's coming on, and now the girl's stuck me with another squalling mouth to feed."†   (source)
  • The burrow grub squalled for a moment more; then it gathered up its body in a tight bundle and hopped several inches up her arm.†   (source)
  • On both occasions, the downdrafts cast her out of the underbelly of the storm into the squalls of rain that pummeled the sea below.†   (source)
  • His head hurt so he felt like shooting himself, the baby was squalling overhead, and yet she would ask questions.†   (source)
  • She remembered the first time she gave her sister Robb to hold; small, red-faced, and squalling, but strong even then, full of life.†   (source)
  • From a squalling infant to a girl of three or four she had become, and her gaze was dire indeed, for she knew the pain of all those around her.†   (source)
  • You are a king, not a squalling child.†   (source)
  • Men like Walton would kill at their lord's command, rape when their blood was up after battle, and plunder wherever they could, but once the war was done they would go back to their homes, trade their spears for hoes, wed their neighbors' daughters, and raise a pack of squalling children.†   (source)
  • At first the stones were small, and he wasn't too worried, for he had seen fleeting hail squalls pass in five minutes.†   (source)
  • Her and that squalling whelp of hers.†   (source)
  • For her part, the plump healer held a bundle of cloth against her bosom, a bundle that Eragon assumed contained the infant—although he could not see its face—for it wriggled and squalled, adding to the din.†   (source)
  • On the train, which was thronged with beach-famished New Yorkers carrying huge bloated inner tubes and squalling infants, we managed to find a seat where we could loll three abreast and munch at our humble but agreeable fare.†   (source)
  • On other mornings he awoke hearing his mother singing in the kitchen, hearing his father in the bedroom behind him grunting and muttering prayers to himself as he put on his clothes; hearing, perhaps, the chatter of Sarah and the squalling of Ruth, and the radios, the clatter of pots and pans, and the voices of all the folk nearby.†   (source)
  • The big parrot cage, hanging in the portale, was filthy, and the birds were squalling.†   (source)
  • She pursued, squalling with rage, collared him again, pounded his back and head.†   (source)
  • From the telescreen a brassy female voice was squalling a patriotic song.†   (source)
  • The rain had become intermittent now--little wet squalls and quiet times.†   (source)
  • At night he breaks one's sleep with a squalling about dreams.†   (source)
  • And before she could tear from his grasp he was off-Esther squalling rapturously after.†   (source)
  • And right is a lid you put on something and some of the things under the lid look just like some of the things not under the lid, and there never was any notion of what was right if you put it down on folks in general that a lot of them didn't start squalling because they just couldn't do any human business under that kind of right.†   (source)
  • The door squalled on its hinges.†   (source)
  • "If I don't get a hold on myself," she thought, "I'll be squalling like a scalded cat!" and the sight of Prissy's abject terror helped steady her.†   (source)
  • When the midnight noise exploded, the tooting, sirens, horns, all that jubilation, it came in rather faint, all the windows being shut, and the nursery squalling continued just the same.†   (source)
  • The Big Hole was built by the city a few years ago to harbor small boats against the sudden vicious squalls that come up so quickly on Lake Winnebago.†   (source)
  • 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—until at length we had gone early to our baths and, on coming down, dressed for dinner, in the last half-hour of the day, we found the world transformed; the sun had emerged; the wind had fallen to a soft breeze which gently…†   (source)
  • Kindly remember, Madam, that I've seen you wake up squalling like a scalded cat simply because you dreamed of running in a fog.†   (source)
  • It was just that Yankee stepmother who squalled and said I was a wild barbarian and decent people weren't safe around uncivilized Southerners.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It was by a special mercy, I firmly believe, that it stood some of those hurricane squalls.†   (source)
  • Rain-squalls were driving in between, and I could scarcely see the fog.†   (source)
  • He had dwelt in a land of strange, squalling upheavals and had come forth.†   (source)
  • "Take the Georges, Pew, and don't stand here squalling."†   (source)
  • An' mine 'll take ridin'—after them squalls," replied the leader.†   (source)
  • You know how these squalls come up there about that time of the year.†   (source)
  • Then she sprang away, up the trail, squalling with every leap she made.†   (source)
  • Violent squalls assaulted us during the daytime.†   (source)
  • "I have no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother.†   (source)
  • But those chaps there are worse yet—they are your white squalls, they.†   (source)
  • Five words of plain and comprehendible English are worth just now an hour of squalling.†   (source)
  • Niggers never gets round me, neither with squalling nor soft soap,—that's a fact."†   (source)
  • White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr!†   (source)
  • Unshaken by these squalls, Captain Nemo stationed himself on the platform.†   (source)
  • That was sudden, now; but squalls come sudden in hot latitudes.†   (source)
  • Gray clouds obscured the walls of rock a few miles to the west, and Shefford saw squalls of snow like huge veils dropping down and spreading out.†   (source)
  • It was a soft grey day outside, with heavy clouds working across the sky, and occasional squalls of snow.†   (source)
  • Yes, and you'll have a squalling brat every year, tugging at you while you press clothes, and you won't love 'em like you do Hugh up-stairs, all downy and asleep——"†   (source)
  • Rain squalls drifted across their russet face, and the heavy, slate-coloured clouds hung low over the landscape, trailing in gray wreaths down the sides of the fantastic hills.†   (source)
  • Then it wasn't just rain, but a whitish-gray mixture of snow and rain, and finally just snow that came in squalls that filled the whole valley.†   (source)
  • Well, what place have squalling babies and household cares in this exquisite paradise of the senses and emotions?†   (source)
  • If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous.†   (source)
  • June came, with more leisure for the shepherds, better grazing for the sheep, heavier dews, lighter frosts, snow-squalls half rain, and bursting blossoms on the prickly thorns, wild-primrose patches in every shady spot, and bluebells lifting wan azure faces to the sun.†   (source)
  • Too far, with all the brats squalling.†   (source)
  • However, that was not your father's view; and the end of it was, that from concession to concession on your father's part, and from one height to another of squalling, sentimental selfishness upon your uncle's, they came at last to drive a sort of bargain, from whose ill results you have recently been smarting.†   (source)
  • "Well, Silver," replied the doctor, "if that is so, I'll go one step further: look out for squalls when you find it."†   (source)
  • He believed for an instant that he was in the house of the dead, and he did not dare to move lest these corpses start up, squalling and squawking.†   (source)
  • It snowed day after day, and on through the nights, in light flurries, in heavy squalls—but it snowed.†   (source)
  • "And look out for squalls," is Louis's prophecy, "for they hate one another like the wolf whelps they are."†   (source)
  • But the porcupine, squealing and grunting, with disrupted anatomy trying feebly to roll up into its ball-protection, flicked out its tail again, and again the big cat squalled with hurt and astonishment.†   (source)
  • You stood at your closed balcony door and stared with disgust at the squalls and flurries—just as Joachim was standing there now, "Is winter starting up again already?" he asked in a choked voice.†   (source)
  • Squalling was the word for it; Pew's anger rose so high at these objections till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.†   (source)
  • "Watch out for squalls, is all I can say to you," was Louis's warning, given during a spare half-hour on deck while Wolf Larsen was engaged in straightening out a row among the hunters.†   (source)
  • It was our duty to sail the Ghost well to leeward of the last lee boat, so that all the boats should have fair wind to run for us in case of squalls or threatening weather.†   (source)
  • I believe the silly fellows must have thought they would break their shins over treasure as soon as they were landed, for they all came out of their sulks in a moment and gave a cheer that started the echo in a faraway hill and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round the anchorage.†   (source)
  • Add to this double apprehension the mystery that still hung over the behaviour of my friends, their unexplained desertion of the stockade, their inexplicable cession of the chart, or harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver, "Look out for squalls when you find it," and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast and with how uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure.†   (source)
  • Came days of fog, when even Maud's spirit drooped and there were no merry words upon her lips; days of calm, when we floated on the lonely immensity of sea, oppressed by its greatness and yet marvelling at the miracle of tiny life, for we still lived and struggled to live; days of sleet and wind and snow-squalls, when nothing could keep us warm; or days of drizzling rain, when we filled our water-breakers from the drip of the wet sail.†   (source)
  • Each delay filled him with hope, for it became more and more probable that Fogg would be obliged to remain some days at Hong Kong; and now the heavens themselves became his allies, with the gusts and squalls.†   (source)
  • This is truer in light fluctuating puffs of air than in steady breezes; though the squalls of even the latter are familiarly known to be uncertain and baffling in all mountainous regions and narrow waters.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • But now, coming back to the world of reality, he had to make great mental efforts to take in that she was alive and well, and that the creature squalling so desperately was his son.†   (source)
  • Never say die, take a pinch of snuff, goodbye, goodbye!" squalled Polly, dancing on her perch, and clawing at the old lady's cap as Laurie tweaked him in the rear.†   (source)
  • He thrummed on the table as if it had been a musical instrument, and squalled in imitation of her manner of singing.†   (source)
  • The wind blew roughly, the wet squalls came rattling past them, skimming the pools on the road and pavement, and raining them down into the river.†   (source)
  • Instead of her pretty little Agnes, so rosy and so fresh, who was a gift of the good God, a sort of hideous little monster, lame, one-eyed, deformed, was crawling and squalling over the floor.†   (source)
  • One day the Baronet surprised "her ladyship," as he jocularly called her, seated at that old and tuneless piano in the drawing-room, which had scarcely been touched since Becky Sharp played quadrilles upon it—seated at the piano with the utmost gravity and squalling to the best of her power in imitation of the music which she had sometimes heard.†   (source)
  • I've seen many squalls, old fellow, both on land and on the water, but never did I feel one as lively and as snappish as that which come down upon us, night afore last, in the shape of an Indian hurrah-boys!†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • When the persistent clamor of the brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thenardier would say; "do go and see what he wants."†   (source)
  • I begin to have some hopes of the fellow, since he has given up squalling to follow some better trade.†   (source)
  • I have known greater fools, who could read and write, than an experienced old beaver; but as for squalling, the animals are born dumb!†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Crosspatch, draw the latch, Sit by the fire and spin, 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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…†   (source)
  • Like a dark cloud a shepherd from a hilltop sees, a storm, a gloom over the ocean, traveling shoreward under the west wind; distant from his eyes more black than pitch it seems, though far at sea, with lightning squalls driven along its front.†   (source)
  • He sat on his heels, quite motionless, letting the bird dart back and forth, squalling.†   (source)
  • All of a sudden
    killer-squalls attacked us, screaming out of the,west,

    a murderous blast shearing the two forestays off
    so the mast toppled backward, its running tackle spilling
    into the bilge.†   (source)
  • …pains the god of earthquakes piled upon me,
    loosing the winds against me, blocking passage through,
    heaving up a terrific sea, beyond belief—nor did the whitecaps
    let me cling to my craft, for all my desperate groaning.
    No, the squalls shattered her stem to stern, but I,
    I swam hard, I plowed my way through those dark gulfs
    till at last the wind and current bore me to your shores.
    But here, had I tried to land, the breakers would have hurled me,
    smashed me against the…†   (source)
  • …land.
    And I woke up with a start, my spirit churning—
    should I leap over the side and drown at once or
    grit my teeth and bear it, stay among the living?
    I bore it all, held firm, hiding my face,
    clinging tight to the decks
    while heavy squalls blasted our squadron back
    again to Aeolus' island, shipmates groaning hard.
    We disembarked on the coast, drew water there
    and crewmen snatched a meal by the swift ships.
    Once we'd had our fill of food and drink
    I took a shipmate along…†   (source)
  • …crimes of the Cyclops and how he paid him back
    for the gallant men the monster ate without a qualm—
    then how he visited Aeolus, who gave him a hero's welcome
    then he sent him off, but the homeward run was not his fate,
    not yet—some sudden squalls snatched him away once more

    and drove him over the swarming sea, groaning in despair.
    Then how he moored at Telepylus, where Laestrygonians
    wrecked his fleet and killed his men-at-arms.
    He told her of Circe's cunning magic…†   (source)
  • Look out for squalls.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "And yet thine, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "ought to be used to such squalls; but mine, reared in soft cloth and fine linen, it is plain they must feel more keenly the pain of this mishap, and if it were not that I imagine—why do I say imagine?†   (source)
  • [4] A high foreland near the Cattolica, between Rimini and Fano, whence often fell dangerous squalls.†   (source)
  • The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, especially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on the ground, and away he ran.†   (source)
  • …herd of cows in a rich farmer's yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their calves at a distance, lamenting the robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow; so roared forth the Somersetshire mob an hallaloo, made up of almost as many squalls, screams, and other different sounds as there were persons, or indeed passions among them: some were inspired by rage, others alarmed by fear, and others had nothing in their heads but the love of fun; but chiefly Envy, the sister of…†   (source)
  • However, I once caught a young male of three years old, and endeavoured, by all marks of tenderness, to make it quiet; but the little imp fell a squalling, and scratching, and biting with such violence, that I was forced to let it go; and it was high time, for a whole troop of old ones came about us at the noise, but finding the cub was safe (for away it ran), and my sorrel nag being by, they durst not venture near us.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
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