stormful

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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.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

Another wild, stormful song, that dwells in our ear and mind with a strange tenacity, is Macpherson’s Farewell.

From Life of Robert Burns by Carlyle, Thomas

Ou ce monstre inhumain fit eclater la guerre: It was from thy Senate, stormful England, that she first launched out War.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas

Mayer was of Austrian, of half Spanish birth; a musical, really melodious, affectionate, but indignant, wildly stormful mortal; and had had adventures without end.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

The dark stormful indignation of a Byron, so wayward and perverse, may have touches of it; nay the 392withered mockery of a French sceptic,—his mockery of the False, a love and worship of the True.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas