Swift as wave follows wave on tempest-tossed seas. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
Sarah Palin may turn out to be too tempest-tossed. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: "Hurricane Sarah" Whips Up Mixed Reactions At GOP Convention] Reference
And the tempest-tossed surge, while resistlessly dashing. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Instead there were only the tempest-tossed woodlands below. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
But above all, their bedraggled, tempest-tossed fans needed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Jets Know What They're Doing, Right?] Reference
We were tempest-tossed and storm-torn, as the poets say. or said. From Wordnik.com. [Nine Princes In Amber]
Suddenly, to the tempest-tossed and troubled twins, the tall splendid. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
But now, what of our own huddled masses, homeless and tempest-tossed?. From Wordnik.com. [Brett Ashley McKenzie: "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor... Well, Maybe Not"] Reference
Around him the flowstone floor rose in tiny peaks, like a tempest-tossed lake. From Wordnik.com. [Nemesis]
I heard a song of deepest passion surging like the tempest-tossed waves of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. From Wordnik.com. [Give me your tired, your poor] Reference
From the CNN severe weather to tempest-tossed towns, we're tracking a monster front as it heads east. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007] Reference
And the preceptor began to destroy them like the bright-rayed maker of day destroying tempest-tossed clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
And thus peace cometh to the mind of the tempest-tossed, but such a being as Saronia could not long sustain it. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The tempest-tossed soul was riding at anchor in a haven of calm, and the weary spirit shone with glorious sheen. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
They thought America was a place of refuge, a country that said, "send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me.". From Wordnik.com. [Marlene H. Phillips: Arizona Parties Like It's 1924] Reference
When a traveler sees one of these fertile spots afar off, he feels as a tempest-tossed sailor does at sight of land. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878] Reference
Aeneas and his tempest-tossed ragtag band of survivors from Troy have washed up on the shores of Carthage in North Africa. From Wordnik.com. [An Epic Undertaking] Reference
Mirabeau with straight black hair, of a Mirabeau who had found at the foot of the altar calmness for his tempest-tossed soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The difference is that of being safely on board a great steamer when wind and wave are tempest-tossed, or of being helpless in the raging waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
It was a fearful thing to be alone with that half-drunken creature, and see wave after wave of passion rolling over her tempest-tossed soul, lashing it into fury. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The stagecraft is breathtaking -- both parts of the play open with tempest-tossed refugees battling water masses, evoked by billowing gray silk -- and so is the palette of sound. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of Homer] Reference
And plighted hearts are tempest-tossed, and shaken. From Wordnik.com. [Maurine and Other Poems] Reference
He fancied in his troubled dreams that he saw their ship tempest-tossed. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.] Reference
No poor tempest-tossed mariner ever more earnestly longed to arrive at his port. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
"Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!". From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
As in the case of a tempest-tossed one of old, "sun, moon, and stars" had long been hidden. From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
The fleet was tempest-tossed for ten days, during which it reached the threatened coast and was blown off again. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Caribbean Sea; but portions of its surface are quite as restless and tempest-tossed as are the waters of any part of the globe. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
Bonaventure seemed scarce less tempest-tossed than he; and all about the school the distress spread as wintry gray overcasts a sky. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
It was not until the end of several weeks that the tempest-tossed barks anchored, on the 7th of November, in the harbour of San Lucar. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference
Adoniram Judson and his wife Ann, tempest-tossed and fleeing before the persecution of the East India Company, found shelter in the Mission. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
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