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Definition of Hurricanes
1. hurricane [n] - See also: hurricane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hurricanes
Literary usage of Hurricanes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck, Geographical Society of Baltimore (1905)
"THE BAHAMA ISLANDS on West India Hurricanes,2 Mr. Page describes two storms, one
of extreme brevity and another of great duration and length of track. ..."
2. Geography, Physical, Economic, Regional by James Franklin Chamberlain (1921)
"Hurricanes On Saturday morning, September 8, 1900, the City of Galveston was a
... Hurricanes, like temperate latitude cyclones, are vast atmospheric whirls ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1868)
"On the Gales and Hurricanes of the ... the wind generally veers or shifts ; and
3rd, the tropical hurricanes, in which the wind always veers or shifts. 1. ..."
4. The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas by Michael Chenoweth, Thomas Thistlewood (2003)
"chapter Vx^ — Hurricanes AND TROPICAL STORMS INTRODUCTION Perhaps the most
important new information to be derived from the Thistlewood weather journals is ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, William Smith (1862)
"The domestic quarrels of the Romans. hurricanes L in i • -i- rrii I. The art of
man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span ..."
6. Mexico's Pacific Coast by Vivien Lougheed (2004)
"Hurricanes Because of high temperatures during the wet months (May to ... The good
news is that the west coast does not have as many hurricanes as the ..."
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