stormful

Example Sentences

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To all men now, two cardinal movements or grand tendencies, in the September whirl, have become discernible enough: that stormful effluence towards the Frontiers; that frantic crowding towards Townhouses and Council-halls in the interior.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

The mother's tears, the nation's stormful grief, The people's indignation and revenge!

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George

A "Chalet" on this spot now welcomes the tourist, but in those days St. Mary's was a lone, and stormful mountain water with not even a forest ranger's cabin to offer shelter.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

The dark stormful indignation of a Byron, so wayward and perverse, may have touches of it; nay the 392withered mockery of a French sceptic,—his mockery of the False, a love and worship of the True.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

From the depths and whirlpools of the stormful currents sounds the moan of eternal sorrow!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various