thunder-storms

The weather was cold and nasty outside, and there had been thunder-storms off and on all morning.

The Hollow Jessica Verday 2009

The weather was cold and nasty outside, and there had been thunder-storms off and on all morning.

The Hollow Jessica Verday 2009

They said that in thunder-storms, and on dark nights, demons appeared, moving beneath the branches of the gloomy trees.

A Child's History of England 2007

There came a season of thunder-storms and heavy rain, which greatly retarded my work; but at last the raft was completed.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

This was the hill the sun went down behind every night; and when there were thunder-storms they came up behind it.

The End of a Childhood 2003

October, and last with considerable intervals through six months; the clouds, gathered by the hill-tops and the trees near the town, discharge themselves with violence, and about the equinoxes, thunder-storms are common.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

We vainly sought the vast and ever moving glaciers of Chamounix, rifts of pendant ice, seas of congelated waters, the leafless groves of tempest-battered pines, dells, mere paths for the loud avalanche, and hill-tops, the resort of thunder-storms.

The Last Man 2003

Island can hardly be explained by the popular theory; neither it nor Fernando Po, which suffers greatly from thunder-storms, lies near the embouchure of a great river, where salt and fresh water may disturb electrical equilibrium.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Again, why is Damascus generally free from thunder-storms when Brazilian Sâo

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992