squall

And swift tropic night smote the Arangi, as she alternately rolled in calms and heeled and plunged ahead in squalls under the lee of the cannibal island of Malaita.

Each delay filled him with hope, for it became more and more probable that Fogg would be obliged to remain some days at Hong Kong; and now the heavens themselves became his allies, with the gusts and squalls. It mattered not that they made him sea-sick--he made no account of this inconvenience; and, whilst his body was writhing under their effects, his spirit bounded with hopeful exultation.

In the squalls, above all the minor noises of creaking and groaning, arose a deep thrumming note as of a mighty harp.

Come, then, let us set him free upon the dark shore at once: do not lay hands on him, lest he grow angry and stir up dangerous winds and heavy squalls.'

I heard old Ahab tell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a waterspout with a pistol --fire your ship right into it!

It was the bold, clamorous, self-assertive squall of the new human being, who had so incomprehensibly appeared.

Everything had happened at once--the blow, the counter-blow, the squeal of agony from the porcupine, the big cat's squall of sudden hurt and astonishment.

He would cry for nothing; he would burst into storms of devilish temper without notice, and let go scream after scream and squall after squall, then climax the thing with "holding his breath"-- that frightful specialty of the teething nursling, in the throes of which the creature exhausts its lungs, then is convulsed with noiseless squirmings and twistings and kickings in the effort to get its breath, while the lips turn blue and the mouth stands wide and rigid, offering for inspection one wee tooth set in the lower rim of a hoop of red gums; and when the appalling stillness has endured until one is sure the lost breath will never return, a nurse comes flying, and dashes water in the child's face, and--presto!

It won't be long before that squall is drenching things."

When they yield to a squall in a gaunt and naked submission, their tallness is brought best home even to the mind of a seaman.

Just before she rounded the point she was swallowed up in a terrific squall that far out-blew the first.

The day grew suddenly dark, as a squall obscured the face of the sun.