buffeting

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Other scenes worthy of notice are the "Presentation in the Temple," "Christ in Hades," and the "Buffeting of the Saviour," and "The Prayer in the Garden."

From Fra Angelico by Scott, Leader

Buffeting the waters, he is carried swiftly down the rushing current, and at last makes the shore, to find a country which, like his former life, is a mixture of good and bad.

From California Sketches, Second Series by Fitzgerald, O. P.

Buffeting in a sea of knavery, wherein fraud and chicane and stratagem and pitfall boil into a seething broth, what wonder if the true and single-minded grow bewildered and confused?

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

While rival thus The brethren and the Queen sent up their prayer, And sacred night hung midway in her course, Behold, there fell from God tempest and storm Buffeting that abbey's walls.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey