The approach of the rain-clouds was after a uniform fashion very interesting to observe. First, the cool sea-breeze, which commenced to blow about ten o'clock, and which had increased in force with the increasing power of the sun, would flag and finally... Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - Page 25by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 356 lehteFull view - About this book
| Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1896 - 1076 lehte
...o'clock, and which had increased in force with the increasing power of the sun, would flag and finally die away. The heat and electric tension of the atmosphere...insupportable. • Languor and uneasiness would seize on everyone, even the denizens of the forest betraying it by their motions. White clouds would appear... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 lehte
...o'clock, and which had increased in force with the increasing power of the sun, would flag and finally die away. The heat and electric tension of the atmosphere...denizens of the forest betraying it by their motions. 820 White clouds would appear in the east and gather into cumuli, with an increasing blackness along... | |
| 1865 - 658 lehte
...the increasing power of the sun, would flag and finally die away. The NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TROPICS. heat and electric tension of the atmosphere would then become almost insupportable. Langour and uneasiness would seize on every one ; even the denizens of the forest betraying it by their... | |
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