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4.5★ (Read Sept 2018)
“The hardly endurable heat of the day had culminated again in a storm, and even to a less lively imagination than Tench’s it might have seemed that all the evil of earth and heaven was let loose, and some reckless spirit of self-destruction in the settlement lifting itself in challenge to the destroying sky.
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He had seen too many storms to be easily disturbed by them, but that last clap of thunder, he thought, ruefully, had seemed especially intended for his defenceless ...more
“The hardly endurable heat of the day had culminated again in a storm, and even to a less lively imagination than Tench’s it might have seemed that all the evil of earth and heaven was let loose, and some reckless spirit of self-destruction in the settlement lifting itself in challenge to the destroying sky.
. . .
He had seen too many storms to be easily disturbed by them, but that last clap of thunder, he thought, ruefully, had seemed especially intended for his defenceless ...more
Oct 10, 2011
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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