war of the elements

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The wind still howled, and the thunder still roared; but in the fiercest war of the elements, I fancied I could every now and then hear the piercing shrieks sent up to heaven for assistance.

From The Little Savage by Marryat, Frederick

Thunder and lightning, however, which belonged to that particular war of the elements, are rare in England.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various

But in witnessing even the war of the elements at sea, a sailor often finds a strange, wild pleasure.

From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Stables, Gordon

The war of the elements harmonized strangely with the weird fancies of the weak man who sat at Jim's side.

From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)

A quarrel and a tumult threatened; for fierce as the war of the elements was the tempest raging in the breasts of men who had been closest friends.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus