Quotes About Storm

and it was probably a robust sudestada that caused Magellan to turn back and seek shelter.

the seas began to churn, tossing the ship as if she were nothing more than an oversized piece of flotsam.

Serrano had no time to reef the sails. Fierce seas pounded the ship

Serrano attempted to head into the wind and ride out the storm, but overpowering gusts tore the sails

the storm gathered force, and the winds pushed the helpless ship toward the rocky coast

As soon as they had abandoned ship, Santiago broke up, and the storm carried away all her life-sustaining provisions

The storm had stranded the castaways about seventy miles from the rest of the fleet, without food or wood or fresh water

severe storm sprang up. The strong offshore winds blew Magellan's ships out to sea

They had settled next to the creatures to find shelter from the violent storm and enough warmth to sustain them through the night.

As proof, the sole cable protecting them from disaster held until dawn, when the storm finally relented.

Oh, our brothers and sisters of the Way, Sufism is the most delicate and dangerous of paths, for the dervish dares to storm the gates of heaven itself.

By contrast, I feel rather calm, as if I have swallowed the eye of the storm.

The smiling daughter of the storm.

The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")

The black clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs Font la mer noire)

The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs Font la mer noire)

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

The seamen said it blew great guns.

The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

It was grand to see how the wind awoke, and bent the trees, and drove the rain before it like a cloud of smoke; and to hear the solemn thunder and to see the lightning; and while thinking with awe of the tremendous powers by which our little lives are encompassed, to consider how beneficent they are and how upon the smallest flower and leaf there was already a freshness poured from all this seeming rage which seemed to make creation new again.

In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm

III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards

He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.