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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
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"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
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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
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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.
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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.
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We, however, made out to keep in hearing of the dogs for about three miles, and then we come to the harricane.
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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.
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When I went to take out my knife to butcher him, I found that I had lost it in coming through the harricane.
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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.
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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.
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