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

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

Whereupon the National Assembly decides, what is very momentous, that no Deputy shall be Minister; he, in his haughty stormful manner, advising us to make it, 'no Deputy called Mirabeau.'

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

As we went, again arose a sudden stormful blast, mingled with a great flapping on the roof, but it died away as before in a deep moan.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

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