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    tempest


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    1. The wind blew her caftan about her, outlining her body; her hair swirled wildly in the tempest


    2. The tempest grew in anger and raged upon the yacht


    3. Before my eyes I saw it roll and swoop and buck and cow-kick at the onslaught of the storm as if the tempest gathered vitality from the sea itself


    4. They reached the garden gate, and Kaitlyn began her story of their first meeting, the theaters, the museums, walks in the park, dinners at the Chelsea, the voyage, the promenade and the tempest


    5. The beautiful voice and delivery of song by Miss Kaitlyn, the tempest, and the Port of Liverpool with descriptions of its environs were always favorite passages


    6. tempest and not comforted behold I


    7. “Harry I pledged my life and my undying love for you in a solemn oath after that tempest at sea on our first voyage


    8. an oval tempest of shadows


    9. No, of course a sword or staff or sounding rod is too heavy for anything less than a great tempest to lift


    10. But the tempest that raged across her face suggested he may have erred in playing this hand

    11. her eyes, which were cast in shadow, and saw the black heart of her soul—saw the tempest of her


    12. Behold, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked


    13. ”…For six days and nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world


    14. How many times has the tower of Man’s civilizations collapsed before the tempest of his God’s nature?


    15. 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters; a tempest steals him away in the night


    16. 6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of their cup


    17. 8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest


    18. 2Pet 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever


    19. valleys of those who are overcome with wine! 2 See, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a


    20. fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones

    21. and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land


    22. 11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, see, I will lay your stones with fair


    23. the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces of it, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:


    24. 4 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was


    25. tempest is on you


    26. the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passes away as the remembrance of a guest that tarries but a day


    27. 21 It is a tempest which no man can see, for the most part of his works are hidden


    28. tempest; and fell with violence on the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up everyone, so that on a sudden of an


    29. 37 And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;


    30. 40 And it came to pass when all the people saw that the seven days were past and I not come again into the city they gathered them all together from the least to the greatest and came to me and said 41 How have we offended you? And what evil have we done against you that you forsake us and sit here in this place? 42 For of all the prophets you only are left us as a cluster of the vintage and as a candle in a dark place and as a haven or ship preserved from the tempest

    31. 11 And they were all mixed together; the blast of fire the flaming breath and the great tempest; and fell with violence on the multitude which was prepared to fight and burned them up everyone so that on a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived but only dust and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was afraid


    32. 37 And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest; 38 And shall lay before them their evil thoughts and the torments with which they shall begin to be tormented which are like to a flame and he shall destroy them without labour by the law which is like to me


    33. 31 And he said to them on that day in the evening Let us go over to the other side of the lake; and he left the multitudes; And Jesus went up and sat in the ship he and his disciples and there were with them other ships; And there occurred on the sea a great tempest of whirlwind and wind and the ship was on the point of sinking from the greatness of the waves; But Jesus was sleeping on a cushion in the stern of the ship; and his disciples came and awoke him and said to him Our Lord save us; note we perish; And he rose and rebuked the winds and the turbulence of the water and said to the sea Be still for you are rebuked; and the wind was still and there was a great calm; And he said to them Why are you so afraid? and why have you no faith? And they feared greatly; And they marvelled and said one to another Who think you is this who commands also the wind and the waves and the sea and they obey him? 38 And they departed and came to the country of the Gadarenes which is on the other side opposite the land of Galilee; And when he went out of the ship to the land there met him from among the tombs a man who had a devil for a long time and wore no clothes neither dwelt in a house but among the tombs; And no man was able to bind him with chains because an y time that he was bound with chains and fetters he cut the chains and loosened the fetters; and he was snatched away of the devil into the desert and no man was able to quiet him; and at all times in the night and in the day he would be among the tombs and in the mountains; and no man was able to pass by that way; and he would cry out and wound himself with stones; And when he saw Jesus at a distance he hastened and worshipped him and cried with a loud voice and said What have we to do with you Jesus Son of the most high God? I adjure you by God torment me not; And Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man and he had suffered a long time since the time when he came into captivity to it


    34. The red mist of the escaped souls swirled around the room like a tempest with an unearthly sound, like that of a crowded room filled with a thousand voices


    35. Although he did not fit this bill, he knew that despite the forthcoming tempest about to be unleashed he would not waver from any of the difficult decisions that would be necessary


    36. Pulling free a large square-cut diamond from his pouch, Marcus whispered a dark prayer into it then threw it onto the ground and the crackling tempest that formed about the diamond expanded into a large transportation portal, beyond which lay a dark room within the Wyvern’s Nest


    37. Shortly after this tempest in a teapot erupted I assumed the role of middle man and cut E out of the loop and became the primary person who sent Western Union money transfers to Michael's inmate account and paid for various and sundry items that Michael needed


    38. We saw Peter Hall’s King Lear, in which Lear’s ‘fool’ was naked during the final scene; and a production of The Tempest, in which Ariel wore only a pouch, and Caliban’s sole garment was a phallic bone dangling between his thighs


    39. In The Tempest, for example, he was adamant that each character represented but a single aspect of the human psyche


    40. The festival program was two one-hour excerpts from different plays by local amateur dramatic societies in the morning, and another two in the afternoon, to be followed in the evening by our full-length version of The Tempest

    41. As we sat glumly reconsidering our misfortunes a telephone call from the drama department of the university invited us to perform Tempest in their theatre that evening


    42. The highlight for me that term was the five performances of Tempest for the drama classes of two Technical Institutes in South London


    43. I stayed with Alwyn and Edgar in Chiswick in the week preceding our trip north, and we rehearsed in their parlour – a hell of a squeeze! Positive audience reaction to the nudity in Apollon and Sweeny, and the London performances we’d given of Tempest, gave Alwyn the impetus to pull out all the stops in the costume department


    44. The tempest swelled, all its pressure forced inward to the eye of the storm, a vice squeezing a beating heart—the column buckled inward from the stress, about to implode, when a sudden sapphire light shot out from behind the gray stones


    45. exceeding great tempest of the sea


    46. This tempest was severe, notwithstanding that it was confined to this region of the lake, there being no evidence of a storm on the western shore


    47. Again the governor knelt, for part of his wisdom was the knowledge that a woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her


    48. Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—


    49. There was no question of lowering the life boats – such small craft would be whirled away to their doom within minutes in the tempest


    50. Fate has brewed this tempest – someone has angered God, and he is showing His wrath!”














































    1. So named because early explorers having braved the tempests of the plateau and thus sated their appetite for all further adventuring, by the time they reached the coast they sat still awhile, before whispering into their cups a single word


    2. Nevertheless, another legend of local folklore maintains that “a series of relentless sea tempests had whipped Temasek


    3. tongue he throws out sparks and tempests


    4. That phenomenon and the possibility of storms or tempests could somewhat complicate some tourists’ visit, negatively affecting their health, though such cases are rare


    5. 9 And note as he saw the violence of the multitude that came he neither lifted up his hand nor held sword nor any instrument of war: 10 But only I saw that he sent out of his mouth as it had been a blast of fire and out of his lips a flaming breath and out of his tongue he throws out sparks and tempests


    6. of Truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of tempests,


    7. Give to yourself your feelings so that a whole person will be there standing in the tempests of life


    8. Instead they mock me with cruel tempests


    9. All her life she had been servile--servile with the sudden rare tremendous insurrections that upheave certain natures brought up in servility, swift tempests more devastating than the steady fighting of systematic rebels


    10. only to visualize how disparate and contrary rivers of all types flow into the sea, along with storms and tempests to understand the source of this symbolism

    11. current negative global conditions, we must redirect the present chaotic flows (seas and tempests)


    12. floods and tempests) of a collapsing civilization


    13. to successfully navigate the coming waves, tempests, and upheavals


    14. and tempests to understand the source of this symbolism


    15. the earthquakes, storms and tempests that bring forth trumpets, thunder, lightning, and


    16. All Tempests have one of those


    17. “How could he hide this from me? And you haven’t answered my question about what Tempests are


    18. “That’s what happens when Tempests touch the ocean,” he said, leaning against a wooden pole and burying his face in the crook of his arm


    19. The other Tempests forced me to go because my name came up on that storm naming list


    20. Tempests invented it

    21. It’s an island out in the Caribbean that only Tempests know about, somewhere south of the Bahamas


    22. “They say that Tempests were made by a storm god and that he gave us these rules we had to follow a long time ago


    23. “I think that whole story was made up to keep Tempests in line, but do you want to hear the legend? My mom told it to me before I got taken away


    24. “That’s the unfortunate part of our role as Tempests


    25. Deville wasn’t one of the really bad Tempests


    26. All Tempests are born with different natural potentials, and you’ve got great power in you, Janelle


    27. Deville were still in there, outnumbered and facing the two strongest Tempests in existence


    28. “I thought Tempests changed in their teenage years


    29. “Some Tempests have delayed going in the past


    30. No other Tempests in other parts of the world could transform when they jumped--or got pushed--in the water

    31. Deville was right, could she save other Tempests from this fate by running, if she found some way to fight any urges to jump in the water? If the ocean turned into a siren song, Gary could help her


    32. “Do Tempests still have their powers this far from the coast? And couldn’t we yell for security?”


    33. There couldn’t be that many Tempests, so her teacher would’ve recognized him


    34. Not only had she'd blown her chance to stop other Tempests from transforming, she had blown her chance to escape Operation Reckoning as well


    35. Andrina just tried to indoctrinate me, but she saves the real potent stuff for Tempests with loads of power


    36. Gary was fighting his way through the other Tempests and coming outside


    37. “Are you sure, Janelle? Very few Tempests can pull that off


    38. The other Tempests seemed like magical shadows hunched around their master, waiting for an order to go haunt children’s nightmares


    39. The world would go into chaos without Tempests? Janelle didn’t ask her to elaborate


    40. She was on a boat with several Tempests who actually knew how to use their powers

    41. How, with two dozen Tempests against her? There was no way


    42. The other Tempests closed in, the suited Elder Council members leading them


    43. And one by one, the other Tempests sank to their knees as the sun rose higher on a new day


    44. “Contrary to what Andrina said, Tempests aren’t here to slaughter people


    45. The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances,


    46. Buxom ladies and dropsical infants, Rubens, and Turner appeared in tempests of blue thunder, orange lightning, brown rain, and purple clouds, with a tomato-colored splash in the middle, which might be the sun or a buoy, a sailor's shirt or a king's robe, as the spectator pleased


    47. had not to fear tempests, nor pirates, nor serpents, nor any of the other perils


    48. You're familiar with some of them, such as the thermometer, which gives the temperature inside the Nautilus; the barometer, which measures the heaviness of the outside air and forecasts changes in the weather; the humidistat, which indicates the degree of dryness in the atmosphere; the storm glass, whose mixture decomposes to foretell the arrival of tempests; the compass, which steers my course; the sextant, which takes the sun's altitude and tells me my latitude; chronometers, which allow me to calculate my longitude; and finally, spyglasses for both day and night, enabling me to scrutinize every point of the horizon once the Nautilus has risen to the surface of the waves


    49. Lawrence, Mississippi, Amazon, Plata, Orinoco, Niger, Senegal, Elbe, Loire, and Rhine, which bring it waters from the most civilized countries as well as the most undeveloped areas! A magnificent plain of waves plowed continuously by ships of every nation, shaded by every flag in the world, and ending in those two dreadful headlands so feared by navigators, Cape Horn and the Cape of Tempests!


    50. B-24s were hard to manage even in smooth skies; in some tropical tempests, not even the combined strength of pilot and copilot could keep the plane in hand








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    Synonyms for "tempest"

    tempest storm disruption disorder outbreak upset turbulence commotion turmoil squall hurricane snowstorm typhoon gale

    "tempest" definitions

    a violent commotion or disturbance


    (literary) a violent wind