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  • The ship was lost in a harricane, sir, and only seven was saved in the captain's gig -- six able-bodied seamen and one passenger, a fat little army ossifer.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • "It's the Jibbenainosay, sure enough; and so good luck to him!" cried the commander: "thar's a harricane coming!"

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • The boatmen say to the present day that it was blowing a 'harricane,' and, according to the report of the coxswain of the lifeboat, 'it was blowing a very heavy gale of wind.'

    Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

  • I followed on to about the middle of the harricane, but my dogs pursued him so close, that they made him climb an old stump about twenty feet high.

    Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

  • In the morning, we packed up and moved to the harricane, where we made another camp, and turned out that evening and killed a very large bear, which made eight we had now killed in this hunt.

    Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

  • We, however, made out to keep in hearing of the dogs for about three miles, and then we come to the harricane.

    Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

  • We then took the meat down to our camp and salted it, and also the last one we had killed; intending in the morning, to make a hunt in the harricane again.

    Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

  • When I went to take out my knife to butcher him, I found that I had lost it in coming through the harricane.

    Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

  • By this time several of my dogs had got tired and come back; but we went ahead on foot for some little time in the harricane, when we met a bear coming straight to us, and not more than twenty or thirty yards off.

    Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

  • He had followed my trail through the harricane, and had found my knife, which was mighty good news to me; as a hunter hates the worst in the world to lose a good dog, or any part of his hunting tools.

    Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

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