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Example sentences for "stormy night"

  • All these thoughts flitted through his brain in an instant, like flashes of lightning following one another on a stormy night.

  • It was on a dreary, stormy night in early February; the Princess was lying on her bed, unable to sleep, when all at once the window was dashed open, and a huge stork flew in.

  • Will I not be then as a ship in a stormy night, after she has lost her compass, her masts and her helm.

  • Hence, when the signal-rocket goes up on a stormy night, many eager eyes are on the watch, and there is a rush to the boat in order to secure a place.

  • Bold though he was, and accustomed to face danger and witness death in some of its most appalling forms, he could not withstand the shock of such a scene of violence perpetrated amid the darkness and danger of a stormy night at sea.

  • Perhaps it is better not to challenge the hobgoblins and fairies on a stormy night, but your fears are idle.

  • My father was about seventeen years of age when one day his family extended hospitality to a peddler during a stormy night.

  • It will be a stormy night," said Michael, advancing.

  • As for the Forschungstein, it is the ancestral seat of a young nobleman who came to the Ebersburg last autumn and partook of my hospitality during a stormy night.

  • I remember his telling me that he had passed a stormy night in an old castle.

  • We'll wait for a dark, boisterous, stormy night, and you will roll out of your tent the way you thrust my Indian out.

  • Indeed, we had only heard the rumor of their coming, when we awakened one morning after an obscure, stormy night to find them encamped at St. James, westward on the Assiniboine River.

  • I had told Miriam a stormy night was to be the signal for our attempt; and now the rising moon was dispelling any vague haziness that might have helped to conceal us.

  • It was a stormy night; and she had, no doubt, lost her way after leaving the child.

  • Of a thick or stormy night, you will keep your watch.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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