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trees, making everything sing as it went. One blinding flash after
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one they straggled in at last and took shelter under
the tent, cold,
scared, and streaming with water; but to have company
in misery seemed
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presently the
sail tore loose from its fastenings and went winging away
on the blast.
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tumblings and
bruises, to the shelter of a great oak that stood
upon
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conflagration of
lightning that flamed in the skies, everything below
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the billowy river,
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the dim outlines of
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yielded the fight and fell crashing through the younger growth; and the
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the island to pieces, burn
it up, drown it to the tree-tops, blow it
away, and deafen every
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