stormful

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From the depths and whirlpools of the stormful currents sounds the moan of eternal sorrow!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various

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

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

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

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