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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
