 | Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...the rain still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields: the rivers are swoln and discoloured, and sweep down along with...of nature changed as if by enchantment. Before the 489 the storm the fields were parched up, and except in the beds of the rivers, scarce a blade of vegetation... | |
 | 1819 - 382 pages
...the rain still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields : the rivers are swoln and discoloured, and sweep down along with...during the dry season, in their beds. This lasts for sume days, after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature changed as if by enchantment.... | |
 | Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - India - 1828 - 878 pages
...is heard pouring, and the torrents rushing down the rising streams. This scene continues for a few days, •after which the sky clears and discovers the face of nature changed as if by enchantment. In place of parched fields, brooks dried up, vegetation withered, a fiery and scorching wind, a torrid... | |
 | 1832 - 486 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...during the dry season in their beds. This lasts for several days ; after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature changed as if by enchantment.... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1832 - 392 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...was carried on during the dry season in their beds. * To persons, Mr. Elphinstone says, who have long resided in Indi>, these storms lose much of their... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1833 - 398 pages
...still descends in torrents, and scarcely allows a view of the blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the...was carried on during the dry season in their beds. * To persons, Mr. Elphinstone says, who have long resided in India, these storms lose much of their... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...and the most vivid flashes of lightning, attended with violent blasts of wind, proceeds to say,—"- This lasts for some days, after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature changed as by enchantment. Before the storm, the fields were parched up; and, except in the beds of the rivers,... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 pages
...blackened fields ; the rivers are swollen and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the hedge, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation which was carried on during the last dry seasons in their beds." I should rather live, then, in England than in Ceylon. The rainy period... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...the hedges, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation, ww1 was carried on during the dry-season, in their beds. " This lasts for some days, after which the sky clears, nw ** covers the face of nature, changed, as if by enchantment. BeW the storm the fields were parched... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...and the most vivid flashes of lightning, attended with violent blasts of wind, proceeds to say, — " This lasts for some days, after which the sky clears, and discovers the face of nature changed as by enchantment. Before the storm, the fields were parched up ; and, except in the beds of the rivers,... | |
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... and discoloured, and sweep down along with them the hedges, the huts, and the remains of the cultivation which was carried on, during the dry season, in their beds. 
