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season in each year when the earth is nearest the sun (this phase is called Perihelion) and getting a great deal of heat comparatively, and a season when...

since the Cainozoic age began, through phases of great warmth, intense cold, and extreme dryness; but the landscape, if it altered, altered to nothing...

mummified,[1] are now coal, prevailed over most of the world. There were some cold intervals, it is true; but they did not last long enough to destroy the growths...

perfectly cleared for cultivation will, upon being neglected for a single season, afford shelter to the beasts of the forest; and the same being rarely occupied...

exceedingly cold to our feelings; in the evening the thermometer was down to 50 degrees, and in the night to 45 degrees. In consequence of the cold, inclemency...

dream. This word monsoon is only a corruption of the Arabic word musim, “season,” which the Portuguese learned from the Arabians and their descendants,...

the flames wrecked the village before the Japanese could extinguish them. Cold had set in among the Manchoorian hills by this time and some snow had fallen...

required, are afterwards lopped annually at the commencement of the rainy season (about November), leaving little more than the stem; from whence they again...

discomfort of holiday-makers; it is now inconveniently early and now late in the season because of this ancient reference of time to the moon. And when men began...

sentenced to be hanged as soon as we reach our port. The worst of the rainy season is now over, and this evening is cool, clear, and delightful. Early the...

The French position grew more untenable when the advent of the monsoon season made dropping supplies and reinforcement by parachute difficult. In the...

boiling torrent which pours down here from the mountains during the rainy season. Some are almost perfect ellipsoides or spheres, but most are disk-shaped...

ridges that ran down to the shore, found the bed of a brook, which at that season was dry. In one of its sides were seen the layers of coal, approximately...

pool, which it forms, in any spot, for its convenience, during the rainy season. This it enjoys in a high degree, dexterously throwing with its horn the...

that a single fruit is enough to infect the air in a large house. In the season for this fruit the whole atmosphere in the native villages is filled with...

owing to the depth of snow and the bitter cold weather. Both armies were suffering from the rigors of the season, and neither regretted the opportunity for...

physician took the place of the navy surgeon. Yokohama now boasts of the season, like London. The last slow growth of such a colony — the Asiatic Society...

exceedingly cold to our feelings; in the evening the thermometer was down to 50 degrees, and in the night to 45 degrees. In consequence of the cold, inclemency...

have made this island so famous throughout the world. It is now the rainy season here, and thick rain-clouds at first completely enshrouded us; but as we...

sete, e mais candiz, de que trez fazem hum moyo) were exported in one season. Volume 3 page 178. LINSCHOTEN, 1601. "At Menancabo excellent poniards made...