But this first poorga, although a severe one, was nothing compared to the tempests we afterwards encountered.
In winter furious tempests and snow, in summer similar storms, accompanied by rain, sleet, or mist, are experienced here five days out of the seven.
Frequently these tempests occurred in otherwise fine weather, and on such days the snow did not fall but was whirled up from the ground in dense clouds, and during the lulls, a momentary glance of sunshine and blue sky had a strange effect.
From the towering mountains that guarded the entry, tempests of wind and snow swept down upon the "daring intruders.
But how little was known of the north of Europe at this time is shown by a startling statement that "certain Indians sailing from India for the purposes of commerce had been driven by tempests into Germany.
Trees are, consequently, often uprooted by a sudden squall of wind from the east or north-east, which have withstood the tempests of ages.
When the frost rages and the tempests beat; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ?
We leave for ever the stream of Moyle; On the clear, cold wind we go; Three hundred years round Glora's Isle, Where wintry tempests blow!
Four pretty children, happy at home; Four white swans on the feathery foam; And we live on the waters for evermore, By tempests driven from shore to shore.
Another had declared that the laws of nature suspended themselves on occasion at His behest; that when He walked out on the sea, He did not sink; and that He stilled the tempests with a mere motion of His hand.
Pests, plagues, and tempests had their special divinities who were to be placated.
Storms and tempests immediately followed, and the Romans were compelled to take out the corpse and send it to Vienne, where it was cast into the Rhone.
But as the storms and tempests came again, the body was again removed and sent to Lucerne, where it was sunk in a deep pool, surrounded by mountains on all sides.
After long storms and tempests past, I see the haven at the last; Where I must rest my weary bark, And there unlade my care and cark.
Threatning and boystrous tempests gently bow, And to your steps part in soft paths, when now There no where hangs a cloud, but on your brow.
Then, at meer thought of fair chastity, Straight cools again the tempests of her sea: So when to you I my devotions raise, All wrath and storms do end in calm and praise.
It has a sterner countenance, and expressive of the tempests he had experienced.
The mind untaught Is a dark waste, where fiends andtempests howl; As Phoebus to the world, is science to the soul.
Pieria's happy shore To plough the tide where wintrytempests roar?
Tempests of snow floated in the air, covered the paths, and blocked up the doors of the houses.
He goes amid the storms of ocean while you remain amid the whirls and tempests of government.
From streaming silent veil to veil--north and south, east and west the Monster slew itself beneath its racing, flaming banners, the tempests of its lightnings.
If Fate, If tempests wreak their wrath on us, serene We watch the bolt of heaven, and scorn the hate Of angry gods that smite us in their spleen.
And when tempests are over and ended the rain, And the child of the Sunshine is sunny again, He comes back, glad at heart, and again is at one With the changeable child of the Echo and Sun.
Such were the tempests that vexed the turbulent East.
Verily God is with thee, when at thy behest Aeolus frees the armed tempestsfrom his cave, when the very elements fight for thee and the allied winds come at the call of thy trumpets.
And their wisdom and power were greater than the wisdom and power of the Abnakis priests, who could draw water from the clouds, and foretell the coming of tempests and storms(1).
Thus, we may say, no matter what tempests assail us, the wind will but sweep the rotten branches out of the tree.
I might so say, to force us, when the tempests blow, close up against God; and when the sunshine came, to woo us to His side.
The storm may rage upon the coasts, but he who has God for his portion dwells in a quiet inland valley where tempests never come.
Now flaming from the zenith, Sol had driven His fervid orb through half the vault of heaven; While on each host with equal tempests fell The showering darts, and numbers sank to hell.
Few leagues removed, we wish our peaceful seat, When the ship tosses, and the tempests beat: Then well may this long stay provoke their tears, The tedious length of nine revolving years.
A massive round tower, called Il Torrione, the original citadel, still proudly crowns the heights, having withstood for ages the storms of war and the tempests which lash its exposed and sea-girt site.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tempests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
