...All those who knew Lord Jeffreys regarded this as the lull before the storm, and braced themselves for the explosion...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...A lull then followed, and the Spaniards willingly lent the place tothe English as aforesaid...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...Then comesa lull, either an utter dead hot brooding calm, or light baffling windsand draughts that breathe a few panting hot breaths into your sailsand die...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...The bullets were fortunately flying high; all the same, we had twice to stop under a wall and wait for a lull before proceeding...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...Then came a second's lull in the gale, and all atonce Bruce was wide awake...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...The hounds meanwhile dashedjealously on without a scent, till first one and then another feelingashamed, gave in; and at last a general lull succeeded the recent joyouscry...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Jogglebury having an object in view, and knowing that, thoughJogglebury might lead, he would not drive, availed herself of the lull totrim her sail, to try and catch him on the other tack...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...For a moment there had been a lull in the assault on the door...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
...As a cat allows a mouse to escape her for a while, so had he been permitted to trifle with his fate, and lull himself into a false security...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...Often thevery air seems to hold its breath for sympathy;at other times a lull suddenly awakens into astrange wind, blowing with unnatural effect...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
... It seemed that the speaker was a man of mark, for the noise ceased instantly; and, in the lull which ensued, a shrill scream broke from the wretched tailor...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...The column disappeared; and in a lull of wind, uprose from the place where it had been such a hideous medley of shrieks, laughter, and exultant wrath, that John Rex paused in horror...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...Each gust seemed unsurpassable in intensity, but was succeeded, after a pause, that was not a lull but a gasp, by one of more frantic violence...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
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