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  • As we were blowing on toward Belize City a thundersquall blew up.

    Another Central American Travel Day mike247worldwide 2006

  • As we were blowing on toward Belize City a thundersquall blew up.

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  • Then Captain Jim told the story -- an old, old forgotten story, for it was over fifty years since Margaret had fallen asleep one day in her father's dory and drifted -- or so it was supposed, for nothing was ever certainly known as to her fate -- out of the channel, beyond the bar, to perish in the black thundersquall which had come up so suddenly that long-ago summer afternoon.

    Anne's House of Dreams 1915

  • Then Captain Jim told the story -- an old, old forgotten story, for it was over fifty years since Margaret had fallen asleep one day in her father's dory and drifted -- or so it was supposed, for nothing was ever certainly known as to her fate -- out of the channel, beyond the bar, to perish in the black thundersquall which had come up so suddenly that long-ago summer afternoon.

    Anne's House of Dreams 1908

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