stormful

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

To all men now, two cardinal movements or grand tendencies, in the September whirl, have become discernible enough: that stormful effluence towards the Frontiers; that frantic crowding towards Townhouses and Council-halls in the interior.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

A more candid soul, once let the stormful velocities of it expend themselves, was nowhere to be met with.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas

But now the light, so to speak, had altered; it was cloudy and stormful; it brought out in vivid relief what before had been clad with the pleasant haze of habit.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

When he sat down, he was greeted with enthusiastic acclamations, such as a few months before used to greet the stormful Mirabeau, now wrapped in eternal sleep amid the stillness of the new Pantheon.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre by Morley, John

The mother's tears, the nation's stormful grief, The people's indignation and revenge!

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George