Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 118
ten houses were forty-six persons, at the very moment that Ora and herAunt Matilda, standing by a window looking downupon the lake, saw it become, as it were, a sea offire. Suddenly, it was lifted up and opened out into shreds as fine as hair, and their branchesbraided together like the strands of… … in mountain waves of flame, that rolled into sound— an awful sound — ten thousand sounds ; and thenthe house seemed caught up — iuas caught up intoflame and wind and wave, and dashed into frag-ments. Old, old elm-trees had their hearts torn turned trees;while Ora Ara-bella and thewindmill werefound…
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