The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. From LearnThat.org. [Epicurus (342-270 B.C.)]
It was only a tempest in a teapot. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A tempest swept over the island. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
So, in that sense, the tempest is a manufactured one, not the split. From Wordnik.com. [Essay Rant Thingy] Reference
I'll pray for thy peace, tho 'the tempest is shaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Soldier's Adieu] Reference
The reason he gives is, For I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
This tempest comes from the hand of an offended justice, and therefore they have reason to fear it will go hard with them. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Clodius -- he called the tempest which swelled his sails. ". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Autumn is here: the tempest is my friend; and he won't be long in coming now. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Trail] Reference
DOBBS: You have been caught in quite a-- I guess we could call a tempest without any problem. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2004] Reference
The tempest is His voice, and the wildest commotions in nature and among men break in obedient waves around His pillared throne. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms] Reference
In after-years he would often say, "No wonder that one ushered into the world amid such a tempest should be the victim of stormy passions.". From Wordnik.com. [Robert Burns] Reference
Just now we are in the stress and tumult of a tempest which is shaking the foundations of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
William Morrow Half a century ago, another kind of tempest swept across this storied island republic. From Wordnik.com. ['Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba… and Then Lost It to the Revolution'] Reference
A member of the Convention; but when she arose to speak a tempest of indignation poured upon her from every side. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
A noise as of a sea in tempest torn. From Wordnik.com. [The Machine] Reference
The word rendered 'tempest' is graphic, meaning literally a 'downpour.'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference
Mother was the only one to whom I told the whole story of my experience in the "tempest" and of Colton's call. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference
"Doubtless," I responded, "and strangely enough, even the tempest has been the means of putting us on the right road. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage au centre de la terre. English] Reference
The strawberry festival and the "tempest" were, of course, the subjects most discussed at the breakfast table next morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference
"That said, I don't regulate by virtue of a tempest in a teapot.". From Wordnik.com. [Schumer to Offer Bill on Insurer Payouts] Reference
Now a tempest in an inkpot threatens to stain his hard-earned image. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Not surprisingly, the very idea has touched off a tempest of protest. From Wordnik.com. [Sale Of The Century] Reference
It sounded curiously in harmony with the tempest that raged about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The backwash from Washington's NAFTA tempest is making Mexico's problems worse. From Wordnik.com. [Oh No, Not Nafta Again!] Reference
Is it a tempest in a teapot, is it going to pass over, or is it going to get bigger?. From Wordnik.com. ['Essence' Names White Fashion Director] Reference
Prosecutors say the tempest over Lindh's confession is only a distraction from his behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Lindh's Defensive Play] Reference
I solicited his assessment on an array of influences conflating our modern ethnological tempest. From Wordnik.com. [John Wellington Ennis: White Man's Burden: A History of Nationalism from Leonard Zeskind (VIDEO)] Reference
She was born on the ocean, with the billowy sea for her cradle, and the tempest for her lullaby. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
This sort of talk-show tempest-in-a-coffee-cup misses the point, according to people in the Middle East. From Wordnik.com. [Tempest In A Coffee Cup] Reference
Then the day that Hurricane Floyd blew through New York City, the mayor began to whip up his own tempest. From Wordnik.com. [A Shock Grows In Brooklyn] Reference
"You can see there is still a foot and a half of floodwall left," he shouted above the din of the tempest. From Wordnik.com. [Gustav’s Wallop] Reference
As someone with such a conciliatory soul, McClelland might shudder at the racial tempest his death has provoked. From Wordnik.com. [Problems in Paris, Texas] Reference
The column, predictably, set off a tempest that culminated last week with calls for the heads of the author and his editor. From Wordnik.com. [Progress, Of a Sort] Reference
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is so iconic, you tend to forget the political tempest that surrounded it more than 25 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Where Memory Endures] Reference
Standing so close to the issue, it's hard to know whether it is a standard-issue tempest in a teapot or a vote-able issue this fall. From Wordnik.com. [Why the mosque matters (and why it might not)] Reference
But while Random House and its hard-nosed contract are getting most of the publicity, the tempest extends throughout the book industry. From Wordnik.com. [Who Owns The Word?] Reference
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