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  • Only during monsoons.†   (source)
  • We were in the middle of a monsoon.†   (source)
  • The clouds that menaced this morning did so all day, growing heavier and blacker until they burst, monsoon-like, this evening, just as office workers stepped outside and the rush hour began in earnest, leaving the roads gridlocked and tube station entrances choked with people opening and closing umbrellas.†   (source)
  • Geoffrey knew the ladies Colter meant; a Couple of hysterical beldames probably suffering from the alternate calms and monsoons of midlife, both as dotty as a child's Draw-It-Name-It puzzle.†   (source)
  • All windows and doors were slammed tight shut, because this was monsoon rain, driving in, right across the country from the southwest.†   (source)
  • It's in the monsoon region; annual rainfall in the coastal areas is about two hundred inches, and the average temperature of those areas is close to ninety degrees.†   (source)
  • But in early May, we hoped, the approach of the monsoon from the Bay of Bengal would force the jet stream north into Tibet.†   (source)
  • They have tremendous potential with their famines, monsoons, religious strife, train wrecks, boat sinkings, et cetera.†   (source)
  • In order to keep from a total meltdown, I think about what Lindsay would say if she were stuck with me in the middle of the night in the middle of woods that extend who knows how many miles in the middle of a monsoon, if she saw me tearing at the ground like a deranged mole, completely covered in mud.†   (source)
  • The monsoons came late to the desert, and I was glad.†   (source)
  • Immovable through the Madras monsoons and through the dog days of summer, that tree had been his protector and guide.†   (source)
  • That's all it takes for the boy to launch into a story about his trip to Delhi, about the markets and temples and monsoons.†   (source)
  • But all they've got in the Pacific is jungles and monsoons, I'd rot there.'†   (source)
  • Overhead, the clouds are thick and dark, giving warning that this is monsoon season, when floods of rain could fall from the sky in a matter of minutes.†   (source)
  • The cats parted like clouds of dust in a monsoon, and an ancient man, gray-haired and white-bearded, moved through them to the beach.†   (source)
  • A scandal that starts here and reverberates to East Washington will come back on us like a monsoon.†   (source)
  • A monsoon swept in, soaking the tense and terrified boys.†   (source)
  • That could only mean the monsoon, blowing in from India.†   (source)
  • Every year, Cristian looked forward to the monsoon season, which typically began around June.†   (source)
  • The Nuwara Eliya Tennis Championships had ended and there were monsoons in Colombo.†   (source)
  • The jungle breathed an eternal green that fevered men until they dripped sweat the way rubbery jungle leaves dripped the monsoon rain.†   (source)
  • It had stood up well to sun and wind, but after the monsoon rains several small patches showed wear and it was well to get things done in good time.†   (source)
  • He had returned to his seat; his eyes were closed and his face was loosened and unjoined as though all the salts and preservatives of unvanquishable authority had washed away in some sudden, unforeseeable monsoon.†   (source)
  • The landscape was not unfamiliar: monsoon season in Punjab.†   (source)
  • You've seen them in dense, tropical monsoon jungles.†   (source)
  • Kerala was reeling in the aftermath of famine and a failed monsoon.†   (source)
  • With every monsoon, the old car settled more firmly into the ground.†   (source)
  • I smelled mildew Moonlight and monsoon dampness fought their way in through the small window.†   (source)
  • Dark palm leaves were splayed like drooping combs against the monsoon sky.†   (source)
  • The floor under her shoes was slick with monsoon scum.†   (source)
  • Inching to the pantry, I knew that this game, born out of monsoon tedium, was no longer that.†   (source)
  • But the monsoon lingered, and the concrete wouldn't set in the wet weather.†   (source)
  • He works fast to reach his quota
    before the maniac monsoon.†   (source)
  • That year the monsoon broke early with an evil intensity such as none could remember before.†   (source)
  • During the monsoon, on my last morning, all this Beethoven and rain.†   (source)
  • The Monsoon Meet in May, the Hakgalle Stakes in February, the Nuwara Eliya Cup in August.†   (source)
  • The water trickled down my face and down my neck; though just a beaker's worth, it had the refreshing effect of a monsoon rain.†   (source)
  • But by early June the southwest monsoon breaks and there are three months of wind and water with short spells of sharp, glittering sunshine that thrilled children snatch to play with.†   (source)
  • Like pickle in the monsoon.†   (source)
  • He heard the rumors and the mortars and felt the monsoon heat and heard the universal slogan of the war.†   (source)
  • He went on to explain how it happened that Cacciato left the war in monsoon season, how they were dispatched to retrieve him, how they were determined to bring it to a rightful conclusion.†   (source)
  • But there was also a more down-to-earth reason for selecting this date: the annual ebb and flow of the monsoon made it likely that the most favorable weather of the year would fall on or near May 10.†   (source)
  • In August, after the retreat of the monsoon from the high Himalaya, Lopsang had returned to Everest to guide a Japanese client up the South Col and Southeast Ridge route.†   (source)
  • By the time the hunting party arrived back in Korphe, the monsoon had retreated and the weather had turned crisp and clear.†   (source)
  • Of course, I wasn't really unhappy or lonely, but in the monsoon season it seemed necessary to think of myself that way.†   (source)
  • As night came on-the eighth night of the monsoon-the winds increased, whining and howling around our but as if seeking to pluck it from the earth.†   (source)
  • Old hands in Addis referred to the monsoon months as "winter," which hopelessly confused new arrivals for whom July could only be summer.†   (source)
  • The air, as always at the beginning of the monsoon, lay like a blanket upon the earth, damp and suffocating, but when it blew the wind came through the rain wet and chill.†   (source)
  • If this year was like past years between the departure of the wind and the arrival of the monsoon storms we would be presented with a brief window of clear, calm weather, during which a summit assault would be possible.†   (source)
  • Ali found his brother a toehold in the seething, swarming docks of the Merkato, where, monsoon or not, he hauled sacks off the trucks and into the godowns.†   (source)
  • It is the monsoon.†   (source)
  • And now, 4o years later, in early May, on the verge of monsoon weather, I have come here to visit my half-sister Susan and her husband Sunil.†   (source)
  • The blind would
    stumble certain of whom they approached
    though you might bathe
    under rain gutters, monsoon.†   (source)
  • And so, while monsoon and heat moved into deserted Colombo homes, it was to Nuwara Eliya that my grandparents and their circle of friends would go.†   (source)
  • Susan moves up and down halls to the kitchens, organizing meals, reorganizing after the chaos of the first monsoon storm (burned out fuse-boxes, knocked down telephone wires, chicken wires, dismantled gardens).†   (source)
  • MONSOON NOTEBOOK (iii)†   (source)
  • MONSOON NOTEBOOK (i)†   (source)
  • MONSOON NOTEBOOK (ii)†   (source)
  • It certainly wasn't a driving rain, like you see during the monsoons.†   (source)
  • On his back, his lucky leaf from the birthmark tree (that made the monsoons come on time).†   (source)
  • He said it was a Lucky Leaf, that made the Monsoons come on time.†   (source)
  • And he had blood-red nails and a brown leaf on his back that made the monsoons come on time.†   (source)
  • Once a month (except during the monsoons), a parcel would arrive for Chacko by VPP.†   (source)
  • Off to the west there was thunder, soft little moaning sounds, and the monsoons seemed to be a lasting element of the war.†   (source)
  • He would've explained how during the dry season it was exactly like any other river, nothing special, but how in October the monsoons began and the whole situation changed.†   (source)
  • Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used as a raincoat or groundsheet or makeshift tent.†   (source)
  • These leaves were brilliantly green, a green so bright and emerald that, next to it, vegetation during the monsoons was drab olive.†   (source)
  • For she was leaving India, India of the heat and monsoons, of rice fields and the Cauvery River, of coastlines and stone temples, of bullock carts and colourful trucks, of friends and known shopkeepers, of Nehru Street and Goubert Salai, of this and that, India so familiar to her and loved by her.†   (source)
  • That made the monsoons come on time.†   (source)
  • That made the monsoons come on time.†   (source)
  • The monsoons were part of the war.†   (source)
  • The building has stood here for over three hundred years, in the palm of monsoons, through seasonal droughts and invasions from other countries.†   (source)
  • "The monsoon breaks up early this year," he remarked conversationally, somewhere behind me.†   (source)
  • The final beat up before the monsoon had come.†   (source)
  • A magnificent monsoon— the best for three years, the tanks already full, bumper crops possible.†   (source)
  • That was in the monsoon holidays, after he had taken the prize for mathematics.†   (source)
  • "This is our monsoon, the best weather," he said, while the lights of the procession waved as though embroidered on an agitated curtain.†   (source)
  • "If one could smoke, Master Pathfinder," observed the old sailor, "this berth would be snug enough; for, to give the devil his due, you have got the canoes handsomely landlocked, and into moorings that would defy a monsoon.†   (source)
  • During the easterly monsoon season, birds of paradise lose the magnificent feathers around their tails that naturalists call 'below-the-wing' feathers.†   (source)
  • As it rose from the earth on the shoulders of its bearers, the friendly sun of the monsoons shone forth and flooded the world with colour, so that the yellow tigers painted on the palace walls seemed to spring, and pink and green skeins of cloud to link up the upper sky.†   (source)
  • So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor'—Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.†   (source)
  • But nowadays steamers providing service between Suez and the South Seas have nothing to fear from the fury of this gulf, despite the contrary winds of its monsoons.†   (source)
  • He had doubled the cape a few odd times and weathered a monsoon, a kind of wind, in the China seas and through all those perils of the deep there was one thing, he declared, stood to him or words to that effect, a pious medal he had that saved him.†   (source)
  • But he, being a man well experienced in the navigation of those seas, bid us all prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened the day following: for the southern wind, called the southern monsoon, began to set in.†   (source)
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