"Cloudburst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the shock of the sudden flood. But there were trout enough for what was left of the lake next year and the beginning of a meadow about its upper rim. What taxed me most in the wreck of one of my favorite canons by cloudburst was to see a bobcat mother mouthing her drowned kittens in the ruined lair built in the wash, far above the limit of accustomed waters, but not far enough for the unexpected. After a time you get the point of view of gods about these things to save ...
— The Land Of Little Rain • Mary Hunter Austin
... she went on, "how things will take the gloss of humor, looking back. That cloudburst was anything but funny at the time; it was miserably exasperating to stand there drenched, with the comfortable quarters of the mining company in sight, cut off by an impassable washout. And it was wretched ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... stammered the poor fellow to whom this sudden torrent of conversation was as overwhelming as a cloudburst. "But I have ...
— The Heart of the Desert - Kut-Le of the Desert • Honore Willsie Morrow
... king,—and never mind the crown and the sceptre. Lone Morgan, riding early to the Sawtooth to see the foreman about getting a man for a few days to help replace a bridge carried fifty yards downstream by a local cloudburst, would not have changed places with a millionaire. The horse he rode was the horse he loved, the horse he talked to like a pal when they were by themselves. The ridge gave him a wide outlook to the four corners of the earth. Far to the north the Sawtooth range ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... to get to it, we had to cross a wooded ravine, very steep and torn out by a recent cloudburst. We rode the horses down places that I shudder in remembering, and I had great trouble in keeping away from the front feet of my horse as I led him, especially when there were little gullies that had ...
— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson |
