What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference

For a man to be disorderly in a civil state, yea, oftentimes through turbulency to break the peace, is nothing to an underhand combination with some formidable enemy for the utter subversion of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

Obstinacy after conviction, turbulency, etc., which are now laid down as the main weights that turn the scale on the side of severity, are here not once mentioned, nor by any thing in the least intimated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

There was one gentle Dickinson among the number, who still hoped for a reconciliation with Great Britain, but the majority of its members were akin in spirit to the fiery Jefferson, whose turbulency often showed itself during their deliberations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Nothing doth so much establish the mind amidst the rollings and turbulency of present things, as both a look above them, and a look beyond them; above them to the good and steady Hand by which they are ruled, and beyond them to the sweet and beautiful end to which, by that Hand, they shall be brought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference

His nature was too simple to feel the appeal of the turbulency and complexities of the later schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie] Reference

Peevishness and turbulency leading to acts of insubordination are distinguishing characteristics of the priests.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference

It was a breezy afternoon, with some turbulency in the camp, and much windy discussion over this unwonted delay of justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Found at Blazing Star] Reference

I grant that the pride, ambition, and turbulency of private men have sometimes caused great disorders in commonwealths, and factions have been fatal to states and kingdoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II] Reference

I grant, that the pride, ambition, and turbulency of private men have sometimes caused great disorders in commonwealths, and factions have been fatal to states and kingdoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Treatise of Government] Reference

This irregular government, which no king and no house of commons had been able to remedy, was the source of the licentiousness of the great, and turbulency of the people, as well as tyranny of the princes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.] Reference

Personally I love to regard all the stories of Balzac as one immense novel -- of some forty volumes -- dealing with the torrential life of the human race itself as it roars and eddies in its huge turbulency with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

When madness breaks forth, the first care of the physician is to reduce and keep his patient low, in order to check the velocity and whirl of his thoughts; and if possible to procure sleep, by quieting the internal turbulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference

If you left it for a few minutes you were certain to come upon it again before the eye had time to forget the everlasting foam-splashed ochre of the sullen current, and at each fresh point it met you undiminished in volume, unabated in turbulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border and Bastille] Reference

Here W.W. Rockhill had met with trouble from the turbulency of the lamas, and my guides led me straight past the place, for they said there were such strained relations between Tibetans and Chinese that the latter were almost en masse compelled to withdraw.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference

Moving past these, as in a nightmare dream, of which even the turbulency of the weather seemed to be a part, he stumbled, blinded, panting, and unexpectedly, with no consciousness of his rapid pace beyond his breathlessness, upon the dazzling main thoroughfare of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trent's Trust, and Other Stories] Reference

Raging waves of the sea, boisterous, noisy, and clamorous; full of talk and turbulency, but with little (if any) sense or meaning: Foaming out their own shame, creating much uneasiness to men of better sense and calmer tempers, which yet will in the end turn to their own greater shame and just reproach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

Every one talked of their mutual passion; and they were so often told of it that they began to fancy it was true, but surprised to find that name should be given to an affection calm and rational as theirs, totally free from that turbulency and wildness which had always appeared to them the true characteristics of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue] Reference

Political wisdom suggests a multiplicity of reasons why the Prince of Wales should not act precipitately -- nay, why Mr. Fox, &c., should not act precipitately; unless, indeed, to embroil the times, and seek occasions of profit and power from their turbulency and vicissitudes, may be the plot of some desperate men of the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Original Family Documents] Reference

In short, where extreme turbulency of temper, avarice, and an insensibility of human misery, with a degree of hypocrisy, have united in a female composition, Mrs Tow-wouse was that woman; and where a good inclination, eclipsed by a poverty of spirit and understanding, hath glimmered forth in a man, that man hath been no other than her sneaking husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Andrews, Volume 2] Reference

Wherefore till the foundations, as will be hereafter shown, were removed, this people was observed to be the least subject to shakings and turbulency of any; whereas commonwealths, upon which the city life has had the stronger influence, as Athens, have seldom or never been quiet, but at the best are found to have injured their own business by overdoing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commonwealth of Oceana] Reference

By the force of her mind, she controlled all her more active and stronger qualities, and prevented them from running into excess: her heroism was exempt from temerity, her frugality from avarice, her friendship from partiality, her active temper from turbulency and a vain ambition; she guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.] Reference

By the force of her mind she controlled all her more active and stronger qualities, and prevented them from running into excess: her heroism was exempt from temerity, her frugality from avarice, her friendship from partiality, her active temper from turbulency and a vain ambition: she guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities -- the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II] Reference

The reader has also observed that the second line in each stanza contains a reflection in the form of an exclamation on the function or result of the uses of the bells spoken of, as in the second line of the first stanza we see: "What a world of merriment their melody foretells;" in the second stanza the second line gives us, "What a world of happiness their harmony foretells;" the second line of the third stanza reads as follows: "What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells;" and in the fourth stanza the second line runs thus: "What a world of solemn thought their monody compels.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference

What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5] Reference

20. turbulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference