Word Finder - stormy

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Of or pertaining to storms.

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Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.

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a stormy season or a stormy day

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Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.

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a stormy sound or stormy shocks

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Violent; passionate; rough.

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stormy passions

In stormy weather they are sometimes of a dark slate-color.

The stormy note was back in his voice.

He built him a little hut for shelter at night and in stormy weather.

He was still bristling with stormy energy.

It was long since there had been so stormy a meeting.

I have felt it on cold, stormy days and at night.

When it rose early it was a sign of summer; when late, of winter and stormy weather; when it rose about midnight it heralded the season of vintage.

The proceedings of the council were frequently very stormy, and the opponents of the dogma of infallibility complained that they were not unfrequently interrupted, and that endeavours were made to put them down by clamour.

Stormy discussions at Lucca followed; but they failed to prevent Gregory from nominating four fresh cardinals (May 9, 1408).

He went across the narrow yard to the sheds where the cattle were kept in stormy weather.

They all froze, and a look of surprise crossed Rainy's stormy features.

This man was the stormy petrel of the period.

Perhaps the Old Sea God as he lay asleep upon the shore, heard the soft music of growing things--the stir of life in the earth's bosom, and his stormy heart was angry, because he knew that his and Winter's reign was almost at an end.

On stormy days, as already mentioned, the irregular changes hardly admit of satisfactory treatment.

The air around her crackled, Jonny's stormy power and the Other's cold lightening making her skin crawl.

Only in the first stormy years of her reign did she summon the diet; after 1764 she dispensed with it altogether.

This Christian kingdom - situated in the midst of Moslem states, hostile to the Byzantines, giving valuable support to the crusaders, and trading with the great commercial cities of Italy - had a stormy existence of about 300 years.

Though naturally passionate, Matthias's self-control was almost superhuman, and throughout his stormy life, with his innumerable experiences of ingratitude and treachery, he never was guilty of a single cruel or vindictive action.

Even the stormy days of the last persecution yielded some considerable writers, such as Methodius in the East and Lactantius in the West.

The harbour is one of the best on the east coast of England, and in stormy weather is largely used for shelter.

He was not so fortunate in 1849, when he underwent a year's durance for resistance to the authorities of Dusseldorf during the troubles of that stormy period.

These conditions were submitted to Constantinople, and rejected after a stormy debate in the divan.

In summer the stormy westerly winds withdraw from these lower latitudes, which are then to be more associated with the trade winds.

Kandahar has a stormy history.

In the stormy conflict between the rival popes which followed, the German king, Frederick IV., after some hesitation sided with Eugenius, and having steadily lost ground Felix renounced his claim to the pontificate in 1449 in favour of Nicholas V., who had been elected on the death of Eugenius.

There was a stormy scene, and the elder Feuillet cut off his son, who returned to Paris and lived as best he could by a scanty journalism.

The Grey God's face grew stormy, and anger colored his features.

While the Grey God appeared calm, his air was agitated and his gaze stormy.

Rhyn's gaze was stormy.

During a stormy night on 5 February 1801 AMELIA captured the French privateer brig LA JUSTE of St. Malo.

On 31 August, during a wet, stormy night, Sir William Balfour broke through the Royalist lines with about 2,000 parliamentarian cavalry.

Mature silver eels migrate downstream from the first stormy night in October for two weeks (Fig 3 ).

One stormy evening, a burning fireball fell from the sky and crashed near the hut.

Stormy passage to South Georgia The ship finally sailed from Stanley early on Saturday morning straight into a westerly gale.

The sea is rough, and the weather is stormy.

He sank into stormy contemplation, clueless how to handle the latest of his challenges.

Eden said, gaze stormy.

The same deficiency became still more apparent when, between 1869 and 1871, he published his Hand-List of Genera and Species of Birds in three 1813-1814, p. xxviii.); but, through the derangements of that stormy period, the order was never carried out (Mem.

But it was at the stormy riksdag of 1789 that Wallqvist put forth all his powers.

At the end of the six months Pretorius, after a stormy meeting of the volksraad, apparently in disgust at the whole situation, resigned the presidency of the Transvaal.

Stormy weather caused some delays in continuing the programme, but heavily armed vessels 'made their way a short distance up channel on several days early in March and engaged some of the enemy works that were sited about the Narrows.'

Impressed by the unsatisfactory positions in which the Allied troops found themselves on the peninsula, by the impossibility of their making any progress at their existing strength, and by the risks that the army ran in remaining on such shores without any safe harbour to depend upon for base in stormy weather, Monro, after examining the situation on the spot in the closing days of Oct., declared unhesitatingly for a complete withdrawal.

Layard's political life was somewhat stormy.

His youth was a more stormy one than that of Tibullus, and was passed, not like his, among the "healthy woods" of his country estate, but amid all the licence of the capital.

In navigation he suggested many new contrivances, such as water-tight compartments, floating anchors to lay a ship to in a storm, and dishes that would not upset during a gale; and beginning in 1757 made repeated experiments with oil on stormy waters.

For forty-six years of a stormy political life he remained true to the cardinal policy that he had announced to the electors of Kingston in 1844.

With the introduction of universal equal suffrage the stormy suffrage agitation came to rest, although one of its demands was unfulfilled, namely female suffrage for the Austrian House of Deputies.

This theory may have been nothing more than an instance of the Greek tendency to assign a northern or "hyperborean" home to deities in whose character something analogous to the stormy elements of nature was found.

Although his pontificate had been so stormy and unhappy that he is said to have regretted on his death-bed that he ever left his monastery, nevertheless Eugenius's victory over the council of Basel and his efforts in behalf of church unity contributed greatly to break down the conciliar movement and restore the papacy to the position it had held before the Great Schism.

The rule of Alstahoug extended over all the neighbouring districts, including Dass's native island of Hero, and its privileges were accompanied by great perils, for it was necessary to be constantly crossing stormy firths of sea.