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• This storm was attended with the most dreadful thunder and lightning we had ever experienced. —  Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
• While this storm was at its height, locomotive number 10, drawing a heavy freight, pulled in on the siding of a station to wait for the passing of a passenger special, and a regular express Truman Stump sat on his side of the cab, calmly smoking a short, black pipe; and his fireman stood at the other side, looking out at the storm as the special, consisting of a locomotive and two cars, rushed by without stopping. —  Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy
• Why, as your ladyship remarks, the clouds seem making a sort of forced march over our heads; but a storm is the mere trifling of nature in a soldier's estimation; my master and his humble servant have faced a cannon-ball too frequently, to be disconcerted by a hail-stone Ger. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
• It seemed to him that he must be to blame, somehow, but he could not understand how, exactly; and he could not think of any way to help it He wondered if the storm was as bad on the river and in the Boy's Town, and whether the lightning would strike the boat or the house; the house had a lightning-rod, but the boat could not have one, of course. —  The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story
• As the storm is at its worst at the point of turning, it is always in the West Indies that the hurricane is most destructive No matter where they start, West Indian hurricanes always sweep north-westward until they have crossed the line of the West Indies and then wheel around sharply to the north-east, skirting the United States coast. —  Plotting in Pirate Seas

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