They are nought but eeles, that never will appeare Till that tempestuous winds or thunder teare Their slimy beds.
This meteor was by some supposed to be a spirit; and by others "an exhalation of moyst vapours, that are ingendered by foul and tempestuous weather.
The octave stanzas become a cataract of verbs and nouns to paint his tempestuous childhood.
For they were passing a little gully deep in bracken, up which the blast was tearing its tempestuous way.
He turned and walked homeward, struggling, with a host of tempestuous ideas as swift and varying as the autumn clouds hurrying overhead.
He stood and watched the little significant signs of change in this realm, which had been once his own, with a dissatisfied mouth, his undermind filled the while with tempestuous yearning and affection.
All about them were black mountain forms; a desolate tempestuous wind drove a gusty rain into their faces; a little beck roared beside them, and in the distance from the black gulf of the valley the swollen river thundered.
The ship proceeded on her course, struggling with westerly gales and tempestuous seas.
Cavendish entered the Pacific late in February, after a tempestuous passage from the Atlantic side.
After a three months' tempestuous passage, she made the eastern coast of Terra del Fuego.
They then entered the Strait, and, for seven weeks and two days, struggled with the terrible weather which at the period of the spring equinox prevails in that tempestuous region.
He was not, for example, lost beyond knowledge or perception in his feeling for Savina; carried along in the tempestuous flood of her emotion, he yet had time to linger over and enjoy the occurrences by the way.
Winding in and through his surging, tempestuous emotion was an objective realization of what was happening to him: this wasn't a comfortable, superficially sensual affair such as he had had with Anette.
The big dining-room was tempestuous with the rattling of dishes, the shouting of jests, the singing of songs and the exchange of greetings.
In tempestuous times they keep much within doors; and when exposed to the weather, their skins being suppled, and pores closed by daily anointing with palm oil, the weather can make but little impression on them.
I was surprised to find how easy and pleasant it had been, even in thistempestuous weather.
We had been thirty days in this tempestuous ocean.
The weather on the trip was tempestuous and blustering, but no special disaster occurred, and on the morning of May 31st they found themselves within fourteen miles of the calculated position.
The morning was cold and cloudy as is often the case after a tempestuous night.
By the hearth were sitting Ivan and the woman of the house, it was a dark tempestuous night outside; it might have been about ten o'clock and every door was closed.
What tempestuouslittle creatures some children are.
She kissed Hilda, but no longer in a rapturous, tempestuous fashion, and walked soberly out of the room.
The artifices, conspiracies, calumnies, outrages, and insults of the Revolution succeed each other like waves on a tempestuous sea.
King who formed out of it each element, who confirmed them without restriction, a lovely mystery, both tempestuous and serene, both animate and inanimate.
Son of God, great Lord of wonder, Save me from the ravening thunder, By the feast before Thy dying, Save me from the tempest crying And from Hell, tempestuous under.
I After the tempestuous months consequent on O'Rane's arrival at Melton, the two succeeding terms were a time of slumber and peace.
To one who could at that hour recall the bustle and turmoil of the Boulevards of Paris, or of the Strand, or of Broadway, the vast basilica itself seemed to be an island of peace in the tempestuous ocean of the world.
But all at once the soft somnolence, instinct with all the sweetness of a dream of hope, was disturbed by a tempestuous entry, a whirl of skirts, a gasp of terror.
And whilst he was again seating himself applause burst forth, frantic salvoes of applause lasting for ten minutes and mingling with vivats and inarticulate cries--a passionate, tempestuous outburst, which made the very building shake.
The reasons for this precept are, that, in all probability, the violence of the current setting from the westward will be thereby avoided, and the weather will prove less tempestuous and uncertain.
After this we had an interval of three or four days less tempestuousthan usual, but accompanied by so thick a fog, that we had to fire guns almost every half hour to keep our squadron together.
Under these unhappy circumstances, we pushed forwards with favourable gales till within 80 leagues of Guam, one of the Ladrones, when we encountered dismal weather and tempestuous winds, veering round the compass.
I now resolved to spend the rest of my days here, and that nothing should allure me from that sweet retirement, to be again tossed about withtempestuous passions of any kind.
I accordingly set forward the next morning; very tempestuous weather soon overtook me; I had not travelled three days before I relapsed into my fever, and died.
The wind being less boisterous than it had hitherto been since our arrival here, several fishing-boats, which the tempestuous weather yesterday had prevented from working, came on board us with fish.
Arad-Ea and the hero took ship: forty days' tempestuous cruising brought them to the Waters of Death, which with a supreme effort they passed.
Neither spoke, but for a long tempestuousmoment they looked at each other.
Her senses tingled with the welter of torn, tempestuous sea and clouds that seemed to mingle and snatch at her with stinging, salt fingers.
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