Adjective : tumultuary habits of studying. From Dictionary.com.
My arrival produced a sensation that stopped all this, and I was hurried by a kind of tumultuary welcome into the parlour. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
No London populace, however tumultuary, would now for. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.] Reference
Towards the reduction of those cities, the tumultuary array of the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
A few officers and soldiers followed him, but in a very irregular and tumultuary manner. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
Highland clans, endeavoured, with unavailing heroism, to cover the tumultuary retreat of the common file. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
Two years previously this gentleman was to be seen at the head of a fanatical and tumultuary offshoot from a cause the most humane and noble. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
In this delegation of authority, the two principal factions which divided the tumultuary army had each taken care to send three of their own number. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
"Capitolinus gives us the particulars of these tumultuary votes, which were moved by one senator, and repeated, or rather chanted, by the whole body.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850] Reference
The assembly in his time was not elected, as formerly, in a riotous and tumultuary manner, but with the utmost harmony and regularity, and proceeded to their deliberations with great temper and mutual friendship. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
By their tumultuary election, a Syrian, a Goth, or an. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference
Reviewing the whole tumultuary discussion, he began by answering. From Wordnik.com. [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference
The garden of the Tuileries was filled with the tumultuary concourse. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Roland, Makers of History] Reference
'Professional! professional! another forfeit,' exclaimed the tumultuary nobility. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
Those who were less interested rushed into a tumultuary discussion of chances and possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
He worked by diplomatic methods through Governments, not through the tumultuary efforts of peoples. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
Both were smiling, and before them all that tumultuary array fell away as from something supernatural. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
Steadily he eyed them as they finished their tumultuary deployment and pressed forward to see and hear. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
With a tumultuary army of near twenty thousand men, he invaded her territories, and met with weak resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II.] Reference
It is a thread of pure white light that one might disentwine from the tumultuary richness of Goethe's nature. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference
At the head of a tumultuary band, suited for rapine rather than for conquest, he suddenly broke onto the dominions of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2] Reference
The tumultuary bands who marched under the standard of the Hermit suffered hardships altogether unknown to modern war. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
They engaged in tempestuous weather; and the tumultuary conflict was continued from the dawn to the extinction of light. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6] Reference
The American contest was known to him before but as a rebellion -- a tumultuary affair in a remote transatlantic colony. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched] Reference
These troops expelled or massacred the citizens for whose protection they had been sent, and established a tumultuary government. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
But a member of the French Convention assured Miles that the disbanding of those tumultuary forces would bring on a social crisis. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
His activity had something abrupt and tumultuary about it, better suited for extraordinary occasions than for ordinary daily life. From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
Parliament, and had, in the short and tumultuary campaign which preceded the flight of James, distinguished himself by intelligence and courage. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
These thoughts, which he wanted to master and suspend, were like a tumultuary ringing of opposing chimes that he could not escape from by running. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
These pressing though tumultuary instances were seconded by a more regular oration of Metius Falconius, the next on the consular bench to Tacitus himself. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference
Justinian, in whose cause not a sword had been drawn, was dragged before these tumultuary judges, and their clamors demanded the instant death of the tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
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