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" ... heart with awe. At length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continued pouring; of the rain, and the rushing of the rising streams. The next day presents a gloomy spectacle : the rain still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a... "
An account of the kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary ... - Page 127
by Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815
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Annual Register, Volume 57

Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 pages
...and again leaves all in rlarkness, when in an instant it re-appears in vivid and successive Hashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness...of nature changed as if by enchantment. Before the 489 the storm the fields were parched up, and except in the beds of the rivers, scarce a blade of vegetation...
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The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature, Volume 3

1819 - 382 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhihits the nearest objects in all the brightness of the day. During this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...during the dry season, in their beds. This lasts for sume days, after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature changed as if by enchantment....
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The East Indian Gazetteer: Containing Particular Descriptions of ..., Volume 1

Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - 1828 - 878 pages
...is heard pouring, and the torrents rushing down the rising streams. This scene continues for a few days, •after which the sky clears and discovers the face of nature changed as if by enchantment. In place of parched fields, brooks dried up, vegetation withered, a fiery and scorching wind, a torrid...
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Historical and descriptive account of British India, by H. Murray [and others].

1832 - 486 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...during the dry season in their beds. This lasts for several days ; after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature changed as if by enchantment....
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Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most ..., Volume 3

Hugh Murray - 1832 - 392 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...was carried on during the dry season in their beds. * To persons, Mr. Elphinstone says, who have long resided in Indi>, these storms lose much of their...
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Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most ..., Volume 3

Hugh Murray - 1833 - 398 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...was carried on during the dry season in their beds. * To persons, Mr. Elphinstone says, who have long resided in India, these storms lose much of their...
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Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volume 1

Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 pages
...and the most vivid flashes of lightning, attended with violent blasts of wind, proceeds to say,—"- This lasts for some days, after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature changed as by enchantment. Before the storm, the fields were parched up; and, except in the beds of the rivers,...
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The Youth's Book of Nature, Or The Four Seasons Illustrated: Being Familiar ...

Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 pages
...blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the hedge, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation which was carried on during the last dry seasons in their beds." I should rather live, then, in England than in Ceylon. The rainy period...
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The New Parley Library ..., Volumes 1-2

1844 - 836 pages
...the hedges, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation, ww1 was carried on during the dry-season, in their beds. " This lasts for some days, after which the sky clears, nw ** covers the face of nature, changed, as if by enchantment. BeW the storm the fields were parched...
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Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustrating the Perfections of ..., Volume 1

Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 pages
...and the most vivid flashes of lightning, attended with violent blasts of wind, proceeds to say, — " This lasts for some days, after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature changed as by enchantment. Before the storm, the fields were parched up ; and, except in the beds of the rivers,...
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