The multitude swayed at first as if tempest-swept. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
The writer of the following pages never sought to sail beyond the peaceful and well-marked area of the first, until induced -- at the suggestions of his shipmates, though against his better judgment -- to venture on the dark and tempest-swept ocean of the second. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
And here, three years later, down from the snow-filled and tempest-swept passes of the. From Wordnik.com. [American Men of Action] Reference
They took them in the gloom of midnight, through the tempest-swept streets, lest the slave-hunter should meet them. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852] Reference
Both in February and March were westerly storms, such as had not been recorded even on that tempest-swept coast for twenty years, and so much damage was inflicted on the precious Sand. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
And here, three years later, down from the snow-filled and tempest-swept passes of the Rockies, came a party of starving and frost-bitten scarecrows, the exploring expedition headed by John Charles Fremont, of whom we shall speak presently. From Wordnik.com. [American Men of Action]
Percivale -- but they had both got on board again, to drift, oarless, with the rest -- now in a windless valley -- now aloft on a tempest-swept hill of water -- away towards a goal they knew not, neither had chosen, and which yet they could by no means avoid. From Wordnik.com. [The Seaboard Parish Volume 3] Reference
Nor can it be fully told how he and his friends toiled forward across the plain, over that dreaded stretch of desert that came at the far edge of it, up the tempest-swept, snow-covered mountains, until that wondrous minute when the endless bleak slopes suddenly fell away before them and they looked down into the wide green wonder of a new land. From Wordnik.com. [The Windy Hill] Reference
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