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If a thundergust happens when the hogsheads are in the highest state of fermentation, the working will nearly cease, and the stuff begin to contract an acidity.
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This kite is to be raised when a thundergust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover, so that the silk ribbon may not be wet; and care must be taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the door or window.
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The response came with such a thundergust from the motley crew that the crazy building vibrated to the sound.
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-- Good your grace, an 'I had room for such a thundergust within mine ancient bowels, 'tis not in reason I coulde discharge ye same and live to thank God for yt He did choose handmaid so humble whereby to shew his power.
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Then the audience on the hurricane deck sent up a thundergust of humiliating laughter.
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All summer long, they have murmured like the noise of waters; they have roared loudly, while the branches were wrestling with the thundergust; they have made music, both glad and solemn; they have attuned my thoughts by their quiet sound, as I paced to-and-fro beneath the arch of intermingling boughs.
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They said the worst thing they could of it, "That it was a blasted thundergust mill, and not worth a man's while to be fooling about it with his corn, as long as he could get it ground any where else, if it was ten miles off!"
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
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The thundergust which had hitherto detained the company was now at an end.
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Page view page image: sheltered during the thundergust.
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So I waited ’til there was a pestiferous thundergust one afternoon.
skipvia commented on the word thundergust
See the list Firmament-Clogging Rottenness.
January 4, 2008