stormful

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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

In the world of imagination, she had discharged the stormful energy which would have been destructive in actual life.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

Like summer's lightning, lights and shadows danced As feelings surged within thy stormful soul.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Another wild, stormful song, that dwells in our ear and mind with a strange tenacity, is Macpherson’s Farewell.

From Life of Robert Burns by Carlyle, Thomas

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