"Sad is thy birth, and stormy is thy cradle, Offspring of sorrow!

The subject (our informant stated) had been gone into at great length, and stormy and fierce had been the discussion.

Stormy as was that sea, and terrible as was its name among mariners, coming, as he did, from one still more stormy and terrible, he now regarded it as a sort of place of refuge.

Long did these different bodies of the States-General deliberate, and stormy were the debates.

Stormy and snowy, oh, ways choked with snow, Unto my darling there's no way to go.

Stormier and stormier becomes the social outlook, and they at least are not the worst enemies of Society who seek to find some way through the breakers by which the ship of the Commonwealth may pass into quiet waters.

The wind is wild, and stormy is the night, And yet methinks despite the elements A holy peace pervades the solemn world As when amid the hush of earthly strife The blessed Child was born.

Ah, yes, beneath the fierce levant, the wild white horses pranced; With rising rage the billows against those walls advanced; But stormier were the thoughts that filled his heart with bitter pain, As he turned his tearful eyes once more to gaze upon the main.