Cold, dreary cold, the stormy winds feel they O'er foreign lands and foreign seas that stray.
The coast has a wild grandeur rather than loveliness, and in dismal or stormy weather there is a weird, solemn gloom.
It is reported that Fowey was made a member of the Cinque Ports, that very elastic "five"; but its comradeship in that association was clearly of a stormy and high-handed fashion.
I have sounded the fishermen and sailors of St Malo, and none seem willing to cross the stormy Atlantic as settlers.
Possibly she had been lost on the stormy trip from the mainland; or possibly he had merely been sent ahead as a sentinel to spy out the land, and see if it were fit for its summer residents.
He was the most famous seaman in France, and had already made two trips across the stormy Atlantic in boats in which nineteenth-century sailors would fear to cross the Channel.
Thousands of miles of stormy sea lay between him and the face that haunted his dreams.
As if to buttress their fears, the stormy north-east wind blew with redoubled fury, and wave after wave swept over the ship, threatening to crush in their decks.
It so happened that he had left the ship in one of the boats which had put off to procure fresh water; and so was not present during the stormy scene in the hold, or the interview between Cartier and Roberval which followed.
It is a dark and stormy night; we are all seated about the camp-fire.
In consequence, it was Alison who made the conference sostormy a one that Max more than once threatened to tear his hair, and as a matter of fact did make futile grabs at the meagre fringe surrounding his bald spot.
Dean Swift was applied to, at a late hour on a stormy night, after he had gone to bed, by a run-away couple, to be married.
The vessel was two weeks on its way to Boston, encountering stormy weather nearly the whole time.
The brave seamen, the gallant soldiers, and the various subjects of these realms, of all ranks and degrees, are to be found traversing every stormy sea, and exposed to peril on every dangerous shore.
Darkness was falling as we passed over the stormy North Sea for we did not wish to be seen and reported by patrol ships.
Upon the day of my arrival I had caught a glimpse of it, and I was attracted by this old eagle's nest which must have been a superb place of refuge during the stormy middle ages.
Our funding attempt charted its way through stormy waters, but finally ended up being voted on by the citizens of the State.
A very stormy day; but where Thy presence is how delightfully calm.
Nevertheless an unusual barometrical depression had brought in its train several days of disagreeable, stormy weather.
From Toll Gate, too, came stormydemands for more ammunition--all in vain.
They were in one of the great furnace-rooms in the cellar,--a very comfortable place that stormy night.
Far, far below the chariot's stormy path, Calm as a slumbering babe, Tremendous ocean lay.
Of cloudless purity, no stormy fame His unknown sprite then stirred, a golden time Worth all the restless splendour of a name; And one soft accent from those gentle lips Might all the plaudits of a world eclipse.
In spite of thatstormy interview, the results of which, in his hasty departure, and the severance of their acquaintance, she had often regretted, she had always retained for him the greatest affection.
All of that company of believers prayed, and on those stormy days when the curious crowd were kept away the people drew together in sincere devotion, and the most dreary days without were the most happy within.
The effect of those stormy days of special prayer was one of the most remarkable experiences of the church life.
Villeneuve has observed a warm, humid, and cloudy atmosphere to produce a marked bad effect at Paris; and that so long as the barometer indicated stormy weather, this effect continued.
In fine weather there was plenty of light to be obtained through the open hatch; but in stormy times the hatch must be closed, and then I should have to live by lamp-light.
We shall be guided by the weather: if it is fine we act, if it is stormy we keep at sea and wait.
Grendel represents the stormy North Sea of early spring, flooding and destroying the habitations of men, till the god rescues them: Grendel's mother represents the depths of the ocean.
A few evenings since I saw this view in the red light of a stormy sunset, which a poet should have described.
One stormy October two young boys were at play about four in the evening, chasing each other over the snow.
From first to last, through three long and stormy months, the Destroyers fought with a degree of determination and persistence worthy of a better cause.
I am not, of course, criticising that movement or its achievement; I regret only that one whose temper and genius called for fostering in quiet fields should have been dragged into that stormy arena.
But it is not the humour of the letters that attracts us so much as their picture of quiet home delights in the midst of a stormy world.
His last ten years were a peaceful and beautiful ending of a stormy career.
This opera has been compared by critics to Shakespeare's "King Lear," as being a great expression of anguish and despair in their more stormy phases.
Dinner parties, receptions, invitations without end, attested the enthusiasm of the sober English; and his appearance at concerts and public meetings was the signal for stormy applause.
No less did the stormy genius of Schiller find its counterpart in Beethoven and Cherubini.
Piccini's placid and pleasant life was destined, however, to pass into stormy waters.
She shudders oft as she passes by Some staggering form, whose ribald curse Seems, 'mid the storms of that stormy sky, To make the loneliness ten times worse.
