Citations:avalanche


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Immense glaciers approached the road; I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage.
 * In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.
 * "As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens; the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that burst all bounds of reason and reflection.