To drive sharp pinions through storm-beaten nights. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Surged round like the waves of the storm-beaten surf. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892] Reference
The same causes have made the storm-beaten Englishman lord of India. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
'Let us save them at any rate!' said the storm-beaten lifeboatmen, as a feeble cry was heard. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
But when he did come, it was by sea again; salt-stained, storm-beaten, as hairy as his men, and clinking with gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
American Navy for seamanship, courage, and generosity was magnificently sustained in the storm-beaten harbor of Apia. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Had your lands been flooded, storm-beaten, ruined, the fish deserting, your people starving, you would try to win a country elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
Irrawaddy, but in the Tundras of Siberia, en the storm-beaten rocks of the Loffodens, and are even encountered by voyagers in quest of the. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
All about the lake there are steep, rocky slopes, more or less completely covered with low arctic plants and stunted, storm-beaten hemlocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
It was only gradually, as the tide goes out after a tempest, and leaves the storm-beaten coast in peace, that the worry in her head subsided. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
He was groping in the dim border-land now, and in it he recognized his old partner with shadowy wonder; for delirium was past, with the other storms of a storm-beaten life. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
Give me our lofty cliffs, sun-scorched, storm-beaten, scarred and seamed by a thousand years of gloom and battle; and at their feet, firm-planted, the boundless infinity of the. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
When tracing thy storm-beaten pathway through life. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United State] Reference
He looked storm-beaten as he held his lantern up with a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of a Magnate] Reference
Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
Then came another man, but not a storm-beaten exhausted seaman. From Wordnik.com. [Menhardoc] Reference
Wet and storm-beaten and beautiful they were, with scarlet cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Snow-Blind] Reference
From a little, low, storm-beaten building comes the sound of a fog-horn. From Wordnik.com. [Vesty of the Basins] Reference
It can stand the lashings of the fiercest gales that visit our storm-beaten shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
Harriet and I got off the ponies the better to examine some of the storm-beaten trees. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Life on the Rockies] Reference
He was like a storm-beaten ship that had drifted at last into a serene South Sea haven. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
The storm-beaten block-house was to be seen in Chicago as late as 1857, and the place of. From Wordnik.com. [In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk] Reference
They brought to her vivid fancy remote wild scenes, desolate waters, and storm-beaten rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
Poor storm-beaten birds, what was this splendid experience which outweighed all their privations?. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03] Reference
The boats were frail, the sea rough, and the storm-beaten coast of the bay was no great distance off. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada] Reference
He was storm-beaten by the labour and excitement of the preceding weeks, and these moments of rest in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of Richard Meynell] Reference
Deane, and his breath came more quickly as he pressed it for a moment to his rough and storm-beaten face. From Wordnik.com. [Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail] Reference
But one covered carriage had remained on the storm-beaten pier, braving the rigors of this terrible night. From Wordnik.com. [A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story] Reference
My mother's suffering and storm-beaten life was coming rapidly to its close, and I could think of nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2] Reference
Brother obeyed; and on the third day the crane arrived, storm-beaten and weary, and three days later it departed. From Wordnik.com. [A Child's Book of Saints] Reference
On the face of the storm-beaten man in it each gleam of the lightning showed the pallid confession of mortal terror. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
In my haste I caught one of my webbed shoes on the top of a gnarly, storm-beaten tree that was buried and hidden in the snow. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Life on the Rockies] Reference
But then Some One had not realised the horrors of January and February at the storm-beaten head of the ever unquiet Adriatic. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
It seemed so homelike, so shut away, so comforting, like a sheltered little backwater where a storm-beaten craft might lie snug. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Harbor] Reference
His expression, in the Tempest, of "the still vext Bermoothes," accords exactly with the storm-beaten character of those islands. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies] Reference
The thought of her youngest and darling son far off and alone among those cloud-capped and storm-beaten mountains was terrible to her. From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
On reaching a plateau, before the final descent, they came across a wretched hovel, gray and storm-beaten, with scarcely strength to stand. From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
For among those very quicksands of storm-beaten Walachria that wondrous Normandy first came into existence whose wings were to sweep over all the high places of. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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