The airport was filled with stormbound passengers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a stormbound ship; a stormbound village. From Dictionary.com.
"More likely some travelers stormbound like ourselves," returned Joe practically. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Even after the repairs were made, it seemed impossible for the NC-4 to catch up with the other two machines, and she was held stormbound for five days. From Wordnik.com. [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference
The next room to mine is full of stormbound travellers, and they and the house-master kept up what I thought was a most important argument for four hours at the top of their voices. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
They met no natives from whom their stocks of deer and other skins could be replenished, and so when they were stormbound for a day here and there they darned and patched so as to prolong the life of their shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
We were penned in verminous houses of cold stone; lacking fuel, lacking food; stormbound in streets like sewers, amid blizzards of sleet and an icy wind: while there in the valley was sunshine upon spring grass, deep with flowers, upon flocks in milk and air so warm that men went uncloaked. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Or, if you are lost or stormbound, my car is in the old barn and. From Wordnik.com. [The Thing from the Lake] Reference
The hut of refuge was already full of stormbound peasants when he entered. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Old English Ballads] Reference
Not only had there been adverse winds, but she had twice been stormbound for days in harbours to which she had run for shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Great Bear] Reference
Both sets of lawyers have been stitching and patching over the past three years with greater and more dexterous urgency than stormbound sailmakers. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"If we aren't stormbound at the summit we'll make Dyea to-morrow night, and if we have luck in catching a steamer we'll be in San Francisco in a week.". From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Bellew - The Taste of the Meat] Reference
But we resolved to push on a little farther and make use of the smooth weather after being stormbound so long, much to Toyatte and his companion's disgust. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
A canoe can be paddled only in almost smooth water, and we were frequently stormbound on some desolate island or point of land for two or three days at a time. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
"We'll pretend we're pioneers stormbound in their log cabin in the woods, and the wolves are howling outside, and they daren't go out, so they make a lovely big fire and sit in front of it and read.". From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
Every moment it increased in fury, but fortunately we reached the mission station before it had reached its worst, and here remained stormbound for two days, during which time the trapper did not appear. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell] Reference
The from home business irena, capaciousness, film, and the perspective restharrow are shipboard polder of niche stormbound by a lustily overreaching druthers of fossil and we palaeobotany ugly the pharmaceutical superstition on that woodgrain. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Whether they date from our driving back by the polar ice-sheet, together with our titanic Big Game, the woolly rhinoceros, the mammoth, and the sabre-toothed tiger, from our hunting-grounds in Siberia and Norway, or from recollections of hunting parties pushing north from our tropical birth-lands, and getting trapped and stormbound by the advance of the strange giant, Winter, certain it is that our subconsciousness is full of ancestral memories which send a shiver through our very marrow at the mere mention of "cold" or "sleet" or "wintry blasts.". From Wordnik.com. [Preventable Diseases] Reference
My striker's stormbound somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest] Reference
I was stormbound in the fishing village. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
Here, stormbound, they remained for a week. From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
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