item: #1 of 4 id: A08755 author: Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. title: Looke vp and see vvonders A miraculous apparition in the ayre, lately seene in Barke-shire at Bawlkin Greene neere Hatford. April. 9th. 1628. date: 1628 words: 4088 flesch: 71 summary: This is a strange Chronicle , written by a strong hand : The best Antiquary in the World hath set it downe , for God himselfe puts his owne Name to it : A few leaues of his Filling , are an ample Volume : Euery small Epitome Written by him , is a Booke in Folio . SO Benummed wee are in our Sences , that albeit God himselfe Holla in our Eares , wee by our wills are loath to heare him . keywords: god; hath; haue; heauen; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy; wee cache: A08755.xml plain text: A08755.txt item: #2 of 4 id: A45682 author: Harrison, Robert, 17th cent. title: A strange relation of the suddain and violent tempest, which happened at Oxford May 31, Anno Domini 1682 together with an enquiry into the probable cause and usual consequents of such like tempests and storms. date: 1682 words: 4388 flesch: 47 summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Now therefore these Airy , Fiery , and Watry Clouds have large Superficies's considering their Matter , as Sense can testifie ; and therefore are suffulted by the Air 's Resistance , lest they should descend , even against their own Inclinations : but by the supervening Heat , and perhaps other Qualities of Celestial bodies , some ( or all ) of their Particles are Liquefacted , or otherwise prepared , and thereby unite the rest together more closely and compactly , and consequently become more Heavy ( for ponderosity proceeds from the smallness or Paucity of Pores ) till at length their own weight press and force them downwards ; being adjuted sometime by an Impulse of the superiour , sometime by a Recess of the inferiour Air ; through which they are strained , and as it were sifted , so that accordingly as That is more laxe or presst , the Rain or Wind are greater or less ; or as They connect with Analogus Vapours or Exhalations occurring in their Descent . keywords: bodies; clouds; eebo; oxford; storm; tcp; tempest; text; vapours; wind cache: A45682.xml plain text: A45682.txt item: #3 of 4 id: A93972 author: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. title: Strange and terrible news from sea., or:, A true relation of a most wonderful violent tempest of lightning and thunder. On Fryday, the 18th. of this instant Jan. 1678. : Whereby the main-mast of a ship, riding at anchor off of Cows was split from the top to the bottom: : fourteen men upon the upper deck, and three between decks struck, and five of them left for dead, their eyes and teeth being immoveable, and their bodies stincking so of sulpher, that none could endure the smell. : With several other lamentable passages communicated in a letter from a gentleman on board, to a friend in Cheap-side. / With allowance, R. L'Estrange. date: 1678 words: 2327 flesch: 62 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A93972) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151764) keywords: eebo; english; lightning; tcp; text; thunder cache: A93972.xml plain text: A93972.txt item: #4 of 4 id: B02642 author: One of the company. title: A description of a great sea-storm, that happened to some ships in the Gulph of Florida, in September last; / drawn up by one of the company, and sent to his friend at London. date: 1671 words: 1662 flesch: 71 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182726) keywords: eebo; english; sea; tcp; text; water cache: B02642.xml plain text: B02642.txt