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    tempestuous


    1. I wouldn't put it past Venna to completely deny that she has ever laid eyes on me before even though she was the most tempestuous four Earth years my bed has ever experienced


    2. It had been a tempestuous twenty Earth years, their native servants had gossiped ceaselessly, but Tdeshi's hormones had always seen her thru the rage and the hurt


    3. Four times he was dragged right under the tempestuous surface, but each time he managed to fight his way back to the open air with panicky determination


    4. Their stormy and tempestuous relationship provided material for some of his books


    5. His high, white forehead was unwrinkled and his blue eyes could flash still with all the fire of his tempestuous youth


    6. The disciples are out on the sea in a tempestuous 32


    7. said they to him, what shall we do to you? That the sea may be calm to use for the sea brought up, and was tempestuous


    8. To answer the second question, the possibilities are endless in regards to Michael's tempestuous relationships with women


    9. He considered his answer very carefully since my sister's tempestuous face indicated him she was expecting a short and concrete answer, without preambles or coddling


    10. His tiny face flushed red and he waved his walking stick at the tempestuous sea in a primal challenge

    11. Bridget conceded that it was something that might placate his tempestuous ways and was not likely to get him into trouble


    12. Less tempestuous relationship, but then they’re both more stable people


    13. Esther had always been independent minded and her marriage to Rashi was tempestuous, but to distance herself from her father seemed out of character


    14. After searching for it uselessly in the taste of earth, in, the perfumed letters from Pietro Crespi, in the tempestuous bed of her husband, she had found peace in that house where memories materialized through the strength of implacable evocation and walked like human beings through the cloistered rooms, Leaning back in her wicker rocking chair, looking at Colonel Aureliano Buendía as if he were the one who looked like a ghost out of the past, Rebeca was not even upset by the news that the lands usurped by José Arcadio would be returned to their rightful owners


    15. A volatile state would verse out a tempestuous stage


    16. I then went on to tell my story about my very tempestuous relationship with my


    17. Had the bodyguard not been wearing sunglasses he might have seen the start of a tempestuous storm in Byron’s eyes


    18. “Who will rid me of this tempestuous priest


    19. Mother hurled the newspaper from the stage, and the tempestuous swirls and flutters of her cape only added to her menace


    20. even Jade’s usual tempestuous out of it, but an

    21. But not the deep, tempestuous way that I’ve loved you


    22. First there is the distant electric bell and the tempestuous whirl of Johanna down the passage


    23. In this tempestuous world where everybody is so eager, here is at least one woman who likes to be cool and slow


    24. Oh, I know I have moods of a more tempestuous nature, such as the one I was foolish enough to write to you about the other day, stirring you up to a still more violent tempestuousness yourself, but they roll away again when they have growled themselves out, and the mood that succeeds them is like clear shining after rain


    25. At tea-time, after a tempestuous walk in the wet during which, as she splashed through sodden miles of sad-coloured wilderness, she took her gods to witness that the thing should be done that afternoon, she did finally bring it out


    26. tempestuous, murderous terrors of the jungle


    27. The tempestuous Sarayu, which had cut through


    28. Tempestuous: As tempestuous weather; blowing with violence; as a tempestuous wind


    29. Theirs was a tempestuous relationship with quarrels every other day and then reconciliations; constant jealousies and I suppose not a few infidelities on both 48


    30. If I had more time it would have been a tempting option to take several days to build rafts and sail across Lake Orlone and avoid confrontation altogether, but I had rejected it as too many of the people would be lost in the tempestuous waters of the lake and I had no time to build the rafts anyway

    31. His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon ;it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret


    32. He saw overhead a black and tempestuous sky, across which the wind was driving clouds that occasionally suffered a twinkling star to appear; before him was the vast expanse of waters, sombre and terrible, whose waves foamed and roared as if before the approach of a storm


    33. "A poor father who has lost his son has gone away in a boat to search for him on the other side of the water, and today the sea is tempestuous and the little boat is in danger of sinking


    34. And, although he was so far off, Geppetto appeared to recognize his son, for he also took off his cap and waved it, and tried by gestures to make him understand that he would have returned if it had been possible, but that the sea was so tempestuous that he could not use his oars or approach the shore


    35. The gloomy shadows enshrouding the streets, concealing for the time their grey and mournful air of poverty and hidden suffering, and the black masses of cloud gathering so menacingly in the tempestuous sky, seemed typical of the Nemesis which was overtaking the Capitalist System


    36. In a moment he restrained himself so powerfully that the tempestuous heaving of his breast subsided, as turbulent and foaming waves yield to the sun's genial influence when the cloud has passed


    37. It was a lovely starlight night—they had just reached the top of the hill Villejuif, from whence Paris appears like a sombre sea tossing its millions of phosphoric waves into light—waves indeed more noisy, more passionate, more changeable, more furious, more greedy, than those of the tempestuous ocean,—waves which never rest as those of the sea sometimes do,—waves ever dashing, ever foaming, ever ingulfing what falls within their grasp


    38. But the sea, in those old times, heaved, swelled, and foamed, very much at its own will, or subject only to the tempestuous wind, with hardly any attempts at regulation by human law


    39. They had fortitude and self-reliance, and, in time of difficulty or peril, stood up for the welfare of the state like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide


    40. At last, however, on a wild, tempestuous evening, when the wind screamed and rattled against the windows, he returned from his last expedition, and having removed his disguise he sat before the fire and laughed heartily in his silent inward fashion

    41. It was a wild, tempestuous night towards the close of November


    42. Overton, whoever he might be, since he had come with his enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life


    43. In short, she was now as mere a machine as much wrought on, and had her motions as little at her own command, as the natural himself, who, thus broke in upon her, made her feel with a vengeance his tempestuous mettle he battered with; their active loins quivered again with the violence of their conflict, till the surge of pleasure, foaming and raging to a height, drew down the pearly shower that was, to allay this hurricane


    44. Their nomination had been signified to them unexpectedly at the dead of night, with scowling brow, flashing eyes, and in a tempestuous voice, by Guzman Bento


    45. Zheryld River was a brawling and tempestuous stream where it came spilling down from the southern end of the Mountains of Light—well suited to driving the waterwheels of the pre-Jihad foundries but completely unnavigable above the town


    46. he put it?—’passion for living,’ but being a poor-spirited wretch—” tempestuous nature


    47. The two black feathers on the dingy bonnet, which usually affected the attitude of two notes of interrogation, changed into two notes of exclamation; as for the bonnet itself, it swayed in menace on the old lady's tempestuous chignon


    48. "Dark and tempestuous was night


    49. It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November


    50. Overton whoever he might be, since he had come with his enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life







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    Synonyms for "tempestuous"

    angry furious raging tempestuous wild stormy tumultuous turbulent agitated inclement disturbed rough raw

    "tempestuous" definitions

    characterized by violent emotions or behavior


    (of the elements) as if showing violent anger