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Typhoon   /tˌaɪfˈun/   Listen
Typhoon

noun
1.
A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans.





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"Typhoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... doubtful, however, whether the combined efforts of the captain, Mrs. Weston, and even Percival himself could have kept things in statu quo had a timely typhoon not arrived and taken things into its own hands. It was about four in the afternoon that the sky darkened and the bright blue water turned to gray. The wind shifted and came on ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... sail the two pirates had attempted to get away and the Revenge succeeded in doing so. Two days later a typhoon struck her and she was soon swinging bottom upwards, with the kittiwakes shrieking ...
— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston
... edge of that question is when addressed to us, who know Him so much better, and have centuries of His working for His servants to look back on. When, in the tempests that sweep over our own lives, we sometimes pass into a great calm as suddenly as if we had entered the centre of a typhoon, we wonder unbelievingly instead of saying, out of a faith nourished by experience, 'It is just ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... in the heart of the typhoon region but luckily for them it was the winter season when such storms are least frequent and although they met a half gale that for two days kept them in their cabins, they were favored on the whole by fair weather and at the ...
— Baseball Joe Around the World - Pitching on a Grand Tour • Lester Chadwick
... the steady decline of the mercury was a warning that I dared not ignore. Accordingly, at eight bells in the afternoon watch, when Enderby took charge of the deck, I showed him the barometer, expressed the conviction that we were in for a typhoon, and instructed him to set all hands to the task of stripping the ship to a close-reefed topsail, reefed fore topmast-staysail, and close-reefed ...
— The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn • Harry Collingwood


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