They engaged in tempestuous weather; and the tumultuary conflict was continued from the dawn to the extinction of light. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Amar Bhide, WSJ Edit Page, Embrace Regular Recurrence of Massive Recessions] Reference
45 The fleet of galleys and transports sailed in tempestuous weather from the port of Pisa, in. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mercury the couple spoke for the first time about their 'tempestuous' three-year affair. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Mbeki noted the often "tempestuous" relationship between the two countries, but, like the queen, emphasised reconciliation in his banquet speech. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
She was what might be called tempestuous. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Girl Next Door] Reference
She also revealed she enjoyed the character of Sofya because of her "tempestuous" nature. From Wordnik.com. [Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine] Reference
The former is bold, and has a kind of tempestuous colouring, yet with dignity and grace; the latter is all delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
'tempestuous' garment of Herrick's Julia -- was 'yaller.'. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies (Second Series)] Reference
They awoke one morning to find the sea tempestuous. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
In a tempestuous confrontation with Tamposi, Eagleburger did. From Wordnik.com. [White House Dirty Tricks?] Reference
It had been a tempestuous five years of being on and off again. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Crackle] Reference
CZ: You have been called temperamental, eccentric and tempestuous. From Wordnik.com. [Patricia Zohn: Off the C(H)uff: Zaha Hadid and Her MAXXI Museum in Rome] Reference
Tyler brings a colorful and tempestuous history with him to the show. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler Announced As New 'American Idol' Judges] Reference
The most tempestuous wind cannot disturb the quiet serenity of the stars. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
One dark, tempestuous night, I was knocked up by the arrival of other visitors. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
Chopin's music is elegant and tempestuous by turns and almost always melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Elsner: Chopin's Endless Fascination -- Between Heaven and Earth] Reference
In a world of tempestuous love songs, this one feels as clear and pure as Motown. From Wordnik.com. [Album review of 'Crazy for You' by Best Coast] Reference
But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroaquilo. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
His parents, Kendra and Bill McInerney, had a difficult, tempestuous relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Young, Gay and Murdered] Reference
Its beginnings were tempestuous, with three directors passing through in 10 years. From Wordnik.com. [A Leap of Faith] Reference
Given their tempestuous beginnings, they may first have to learn to love each other. From Wordnik.com. [Does This Deal Compute?] Reference
The first is the talented, oft-injured and always-tempestuous outfielder Milton Bradley. From Wordnik.com. [Show Me the Moneyball] Reference
To music of tempestuous, near hysterical sensuality, the pair fall in love at first sight. From Wordnik.com. [Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25] Reference
Jackson's marriage to the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman was complicated and tempestuous. From Wordnik.com. [Demons In The Family] Reference
The aerobike, with wings wide open, was taking flight toward the stars, in a tempestuous wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The night had been tempestuous, and the wind still drove the sleet through the leafless trees of the. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Addendum: The spectacular (and underrated) Idris Muhammad is on drums and whacks up a tempestuous storm. From Wordnik.com. [Is Jazz Back?] Reference
"Yes, and it's made me desperate," cried Mollie, the tempestuous, flinging down the unfortunate sweater once more. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
Through tempestuous seas and raging winter gales he had guided his ship well, and Spain knew how to do him honour. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Though doubling the cape is the safer route, yet this passage itself is beset by dangerous storms and tempestuous seas. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
When a man, therefore, refuses the light he becomes a weakling, and he will meet with disaster in the first tempestuous day. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
By the 15th of November, the Connecticut river was frozen over, and the snow was so deep, and the season so tempestuous, that. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Its spectacularly beautiful satellite presentation belies the tempestuous maritime conditions surely ongoing underneath its eyewall. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricanes keep avoiding U.S., will it continue?] Reference
We may study the events of his tempestuous life with serene temper, solely for the important light on the history of human progress. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Thinking back, I wonder: Weren't her tempestuous fits really grounded in her profound disappointment with the way things are in our world?. From Wordnik.com. [Jeanne's Song, 2010] Reference
In a span of three months, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has divorced his tempestuous wife Cécilia and shacked up with a supermodel-turned-popstar. From Wordnik.com. [An Affair to Remember] Reference
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