Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding with storms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding with storms.
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- adjective Abounding with
storms ;stormy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Voltaire's ostentatious enjoyment of his landscape and his garden was only the expansion of a seafarer, who after a stormful voyage finds himself in a fair haven.
Voltaire 2007
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Yet such stormful scenes, with great actors as with small, are perhaps more painful in description than they were in reality; and Voltaire was less discomposed by the lively impetuosity of a companion like Madame du Châtelet than he would have been by the orderly calm of a more precise and perfectly well-regulated person.
Voltaire 2007
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From the depths and whirlpools of the stormful currents sounds the moan of eternal sorrow!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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It can never find a rest in a woman's stormful breast,
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Rousseau was persuaded that Madame d'Epinay was his betrayer, and was seized by one of his blackest and most stormful moods.
Rousseau Morley, John 1905
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His stay here was marked by an incident that has filled many pages with stormful discussion.
Rousseau Morley, John 1905
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A "Chalet" on this spot now welcomes the tourist, but in those days St. Mary's was a lone, and stormful mountain water with not even a forest ranger's cabin to offer shelter.
A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900
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Athwart their stormful breath the star-throngs fade:
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Rousseau was persuaded that Madame d'Epinay was his betrayer, and was seized by one of his blackest and most stormful moods.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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His stay here was marked by an incident that has filled many pages with stormful discussion.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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