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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tempest .
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Examples
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And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air;
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For when the soul is tempested, troubled, and left to itself by unrest, then it is time to pray, for to make itself pliable and obedient [140] to God.
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He said not: Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome.
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Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted
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She tempested out of Miss Cotton's house, all tearful under the veil she had pulled down, and as she shut the door of her coupe, Miss Cotton's heart jumped into her throat with an impulse to run after her, to recall her, to recant, to modify everything.
April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878
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I was once more on the Great Conglomerate, -- here, as elsewhere, a picturesque, boldly-featured deposit, traversed by narrow, mural-sided valleys, and tempested by bluff abrupt eminences.
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And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air;
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air;
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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And beneath this thick canopy the unseen deep would literally "boil as a pot," wildly tempested from below; while from time to time more deeply seated convulsion would upheave sudden to the surface vast tracts of semi-molten rock, soon again to disappear, and from which waves of bulk enormous would roll outwards, to meet in wild conflict with the giant waves of other convulsions, or return to hiss and sputter against the intensely heated and fast foundering mass, whose violent upheaval had first elevated and sent them abroad.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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"Leonore, my eyes burn, my head aches, and my heart is wildly tempested!
The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833
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