stormful

Example Sentences

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In the world of imagination, she had discharged the stormful energy which would have been destructive in actual life.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

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

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History 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

As we went, again arose a sudden stormful blast, mingled with a great flapping on the roof, but it died away as before in a deep moan.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

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