97 adjectives to describe tumults

Dotty felt a sudden tumult of joy and shame, but the joy was uppermost.

This done, Bacon set off on his Indian campaign, leaving behind him a mighty tumult.

The outbreak was infectious, and from every side the clamor swelled and burst till it seemed as if the universe had vaulted into mad tumult at the touch of a girl's hand.

Her mouth was wide open, but no sound issued from it; the dreadful tumult that had arisen within her had no doubt paralyzed her tongue.

[A tremendous tumult announces the uprising of the Sun.]

Upstairs there, perhaps in his former solitary room, an orchestra was playing lively airs, which did not completely drown the confused tumult of talk and laughter.

"What busy tumult among those older boys at the brook!

Eurydice struggles in the clutch of bestial devils; Pluto, like a mediaeval Satan, frowns above the scene of fiendish riot; the violin of Orpheus thrills faintly through the infernal tumult.

They are a great dunghill where all sorts of dirty and nasty humours meet, stink, and ferment, for all the parts are in a perpetual tumult.

After this inner tumult came equanimity.

A fearful tumult arose.

Not more than one or two minutes could have passed before the frightful tumult and all its sounding echoes had ceased.

The mob rose in furious tumult.

Every one seemed to know everything, and yetno wonder that Miss Milligan picked her teeth in agonies of mental tumult at finding herself sole possessor of a satisfactory explanation which she was bound in honour not to disclose.

Above this watery tumult spread the wet gloom of the night, full of the blackness and pelting chill of a fine slanting rain.

The Pope, with difficulty, stilled the angry tumult.

When they were overawed by the imposing tone of their Committees, they were tolerably decent; but as this restraint has worn off, the scandalous tumult of their debates increases, and they exhibit whatever you can imagine of an assemblage of men, most of whom are probably unacquainted with those salutary forms which correct the passions, and soften the intercourse of polished society.

Ambition raises a secret Tumult in the Soul, it inflames the Mind, and puts it into a violent Hurry of Thought: It is still reaching after an empty imaginary Good, that has not in it the Power to abate or satisfy it.

Under pretence that Bartolome Hurtado abused the particular favor of the Governor, Alonzo Perez de la Rua, and other unquiet spirits, raised a seditious tumult; their object was to seize ten thousand pieces which yet remained entire, and divide them at their pleasure.

Even if another man hadn't come along and stirred up a temporary tumult in me, I couldn't have gone on forever.

Demagogues in Paris excited the lower classes of the citizens to formidable tumults.

Around me was the atmosphere of conflict, and, freed from its long repression, my mind leapt up to share in the strife with a joy in the intellectual tumult, the intellectual strain.

This advocate urged that the Bishop of Lincoln was the author of the tumult at Oxford; that whenever Bishop Roger came to court, his people, presuming on his power, excited tumults; that the Bishop secretly favored the King's enemies, and was ready to join the party of the Empress.

Whether it were the sight of the dying bird, or the thought that her own agency might have been concerned in it, or some deeper grief, which took this occasion to declare itself,some dark remorse or hopeless longing,whatever it might be, there was an unwonted tumult in her soul.

The distant, increasing tumult of the river, so part of the silence that it seemed no sound at all, lulled herThenabove itthe beat of horse's hoofs.

97 adjectives to describe  tumults