stormful

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Whereupon the National Assembly decides, what is very momentous, that no Deputy shall be Minister; he, in his haughty stormful manner, advising us to make it, 'no Deputy called Mirabeau.'

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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