What man of good temper would endure this tempest of exclamation?
The tempest came on, with hardly any warning, just after the young moon had set.
As yet no wind or rain had reached them; yet they could see the tempest coming, although there was perfect stillness around them.
The report of the death of Alexander, and the natural suspicion that he had been murdered, inflamed their passions into fury, and the tempest of the camp could only be appeased by the presence and authority of the popular youth.
Luther was not blind to the tempest about to burst upon him; but he stood firm, trusting in Christ to be his support and shield.
How could one of little courage and experience withstand the tempestbefore which the strongest and bravest had been forced to flee?
The shock of surprise, with its tempest of tears, had past.
At every tempest the sea casts ashore new quantities of mammoth's tusks, and the inhabitants of New Siberia carry on a profitable commerce in this fossil ivory.
And there tempest of the sea took him, and he arrived in an isle.
And therefore hath the white thorn many virtues, for he that beareth a branch on him thereof, no thunder ne no manner of tempest may dere him; nor in the house, that it is in, may no evil ghost enter nor come unto the place that it is in.
As still his moistened lip he fingered, The envious policeman lingered; While far the infernal tempest sped, And shook the country folks in bed, And tore the trees and tossed the ships, He lingered and he licked his lips.
The French horsemen might have endured the tempest of bullets but they could not ride down the chevaux de frise, the fringe of steel.
The tempest without seemed fit accompaniment to the tempest within, thought the woman.
As the year drew to a close, the frost and the perpetual snow-tempest became, if that were possible, still more frightful.
Our passengers hailed from fifteen states; only a few of them had ever been to sea before; manifestly it would not do to pit them against a full-blown tempest until they had got their sea-legs on.
He had seized his money and started toward the door, but the fiery tempest caught him at the very threshold, and he sank down and died.
If this were set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces, would I think it so handsome?
It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak; She ran upon no rock.
There's tempestin yon horned moon, And lightning in yon cloud; But hark the music, mariners!
I shrieked, upstarting-- "Get thee back into thetempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Say, whence is the voice that when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease?
Put my coat on your shoulders and come with me where Yon rock makes a shelter--I often sit there To watch the great conflicts 'twixt tempest and sea.
Her volubility unloosed the tongue of Ayesha, and the old womans those of all the other women, until there arose such a tempest of words and screams, all of which were directed against me, that I was nearly overwhelmed.
I said my prayers with all the fervency of one who having escaped a tempest has got safe into port.
He thought that he was once more back on the sea-road above Treliss, that the wind was blowing in a tempest and that the sea below him was foaming on to the rocks.
On the hill in the little churchyard, a tempest of wind swept across the graves.
He sailed for Helvoetsluis while the tempest was still not wholly allayed, and another tempest seemed likely to spring up.
Whereat the young lords burst into such a tempest of laughter that I could not refrain from joining them.
A noble painter, he bore the sun in his head and a tempest in his heart, and he could turn from warriors to saints, from saints to lovers, from lovers to tigers, and from tigers to flowers.
The whiplash of the tempest cracked the tree trunks as a child beheads a row of daisies.
With wild laughter and shrieks and imprecations, the spirit of the tempest wailed on its furious way.
That sun once set, a thousand meaner stars Gave a dim light to violence and wars, To such a tempest as now threatens all, Did not your mighty arm prevent the fall.
For the present Cecil firmly refused to allow anyone to tamper with this conveyance, and Sherborne was the raft upon which the Raleighs sailed through the worst tempestof the trial.
She looked very provoking as she stood poising herself on her slender feet on the low edge of the hearthstone, with one hand holding the stone paw of the ragged old Tempest lion carved on the chimney-piece.
When Colonel Tempest and Archie began to talk about their honour, which was invariably mixed up with debts of a dubious nature, and an overdrawn banking account, and an unpaid tailor, John always froze perceptibly.
Colonel Tempest and Archie came next behind him; one slip, and they would be in possession.
At last Colonel Tempest heard that John was leaving town.
Colonel Tempest had it almost to himself for the first ten minutes, except for a covey of little boys who fought and clambered and jumped on some stacked timber at one end.
To-morrow he knew he would pass out into the tumult again, and the minutes slipped like pearls from a string, dropping into the dim gulf where the tempest raged.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tempest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
