She laughed deliciously, and a snow-squall drove upon us and cut our cheeks, and the Elsinore flung over and down as if she would never rise again, while we held on and swept through the air in a dizzying arc. ❋ Unknown (2010)
That night, at the head of Tagish Lake, in the thick of a driving snow-squall, they overhauled the Flora. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up, both watches were shortening sail, and all was buried in the obscurity of a driving snow-squall. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was in the late afternoon, during a lull in such a gale, that Kit and John Bellew helped the cousins load the boat and watched it disappear down the lake in a snow-squall. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But when he reached the crest of the divide in the thick of a driving snow-squall, it was in the company of his Indians, and his secret pride was that he had come through with them and never squealed and never lagged. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Headed out through a blinding snow-squall this morning to meet up with kinzel for a cup of coffee and some chat. ❋ Jhetley (2008)
But aside from the occasional snow-squall or having to stop to retrieve something valuable that someone had dropped, we made good time. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On May 6 we passed Cape Horn in very fair weather; it is true we, had a snow-squall of hurricane violence, but it did not last much more than half an hour. ❋ Unknown (2003)
We found that there was good going for a sledge as far as the north-east corner of the bay, but did not get much information regarding the conditions farther on owing to the view becoming obscured by a snow-squall. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)
Nepal, said four of five other climbers who went missing during the snow-squall were believed dead. ❋ Unknown (1996)
That afternoon, trapped by a fierce snow-squall, Caswallon had led them to a wooded ridge. ❋ Gemmell, David (1995)
"There was still snow at Tiflis, Montana, yesterday," said the neighboring Bore; then goes for a crescendo: "Two years ago we had a snow-squall right here in Zenith on the twenty-fifth of April." ❋ Vidal, Gore (1992)
SEVEN It was little more than half-light when the U-boat, in broken camouflage paint of various shades of grey and at a distance of less than half a mile, suddenly appeared from behind a passing snow-squall. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1984)
The snow-squall gathered fury, and La Salle, waving his hand, pointed heavenward, while Peter, knowing but too well the danger of their position, sank on his knees, and began the simple prayers of his faith. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
Letting the line slacken a little, Regnar gave a deft whirl, which cast off the bight from the rock, and the party, dragging behind them their prize, retraced their path amid what soon became a blinding snow-squall. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
Then came on a violent snow-squall, which obliterated the track. ❋ Various (N/A)
In England there is the luxuriant foliage, the fragrant blossom, the gay flower; in Canada, black twigs -- bare, scraggy, and altogether wretched -- thrust their repulsive forms forth into the bleak air -- there, the soft rain-shower falls; here, the fierce snow-squall, or maddening sleet! ❋ James De Mille (N/A)
A gust of wind out of the north-east whistled across the floes, and the next moment a thick snow-squall shut out the distant shores, the lowering icebergs, the decoys of their friends, in fact, everything a hundred yards away. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
There was a fire on her hearth and a March snow-squall tapped against the window panes. ❋ Katharine Newlin Burt (1929)
` ` No, but still, there was snow at Tiflis, Montana, yesterday, '' said the Scholar, ` ` and you remember the blizzard they had out West three days ago -- thirty inches of snow at Greeley, Colorado -- and two years ago we had a snow-squall right here in Zenith on the twenty-fifth of April. '' ❋ Unknown (1922)
