27 examples of storm-tossed in sentences

From his letters we are enabled to retrace the momentous voyage of the little Matthew of Bristol across the western oceannot the sunny region of steady trade-winds, by whose favoring influence Columbus was wafted to his destination, but the boisterous reaches of the northern Atlanticover that "still vexed sea" which shares with one or two others the reputation of being the most storm-tossed region in the world of ocean.

So many of her poems were the expressions of a bright faith and simple trust shining out through storm and cloud, that others, storm-tossed and beclouded, catch the rays and are cheered thereby.

But her eyes showed him only glimpses of a storm-tossed soul.

tormentoso, -a, stormy, storm-tossed, tempestuous tornar, to return; á ... , to ... again; á aparecer, to reappear; á decir, to repeat.

* "Like the beacon-lights in harbours, which, kindling a great blaze by means of a few fagots, afford sufficient aid to vessels that wander over the sea, so, also, a man of bright character in a storm-tossed city, himself content with little, effects great blessings for his fellow-citizens.

Throughout the Aeneid, the patches of landscape, the retreats for storm-tossed ships, the carved temple-doors, the groups of accoutred warriors marching past, and many a gruesome battle scene, are reminders of this early technique.

He took the humiliation so much to heart, that he meditated retiring to that refuge for storm-tossed souls, Benares.

As she floated there, as though sustained by some unseen force, she saw in the distance a small boat approaching over the storm-tossed waves.

He steps from the sandy shore to the surface of the storm-tossed sea.

There are times when not one harebell nods its head in the calm air, not one seed falls from the feathered grass, in the tender serenity of a quiet world; and there are times, too, when Nature aroused puts forth her terrible strength, so that man ventures abroad at his great peril, and ropes must be stretched along the roads by which the unwary wanderer may drag his storm-tossed body home.

It is difficult to express the sense of relief this steadiness gives after our storm-tossed passage.

The forenoon march was over the belt of storm-tossed sastrugi; it looked like a rough sea.

" He ceased, and trembling fingers cleared All vestiges of meat away; The smiling handmaids reappeared With mounds of buttered hay; Silence replaced the storm-tossed scenes; There was no sound save masticated beans.

Storm-tossed and driven out of their reckoning, they turned for refuge one April day into a yawning break in the coast-line that we now call Chesapeake Bay.

What a Canaan those weary, storm-tossed colonists must have thought it all!

I've longed for this reunion; You've been the lodestar of this storm-tossed ship In those long hours which poets call Communion With one's own Soul, and common folk the Pip.

The tropical ocean had lost its phosphorescence, and the whirling steam rose in ghostly wreaths from the black waves that plunged incessantly, speckled with storm-tossed ships.

In the picture, peacocks, which were common symbols for the lover, are shown against a storm-tossed skythe battered clouds and writhing lightning being symbolic references to 'the strife of love.'

The emotions of a husband are those of a mariner who has entered into the calm harbor of matrimony with his treasure safe and sound, while the romantic lover is as one who is still on the high seas of uncertainty, storm-tossed one moment, lifted sky-high on a wave of hope, the next in a dark abyss of despair.

In addition to being scared, he was seasick from the eccentric motions of the storm-tossed craft.

The silent love that here meets no returning, The inspiration, which no language finds? There is a land, where every pulse is thrilling, With rapture, earth's sojourners may not know, Where heaven's repose the weary heart is stilling, And peacefully earth's storm-tossed currents flow.

On Via Reggio's surf-beaten strand The late-relenting sea, with hollow moan Gave back the storm-tossed body to the land, As if in tone Of sorrow it bewailed the deed itself had done.

Mrs. Tucker's smile kept her lips until she had returned to her room, and even then languidly shone in her eyes for some minutes after, as she gazed abstractedly from her window on the storm-tossed bay in the distance.

And the same writer goes on to quote with approval Professor Dowden's likening of Shakespeare to a ship, beaten and storm-tossed, but yet entering harbour with sails full-set, to anchor in peace.

Earnestly did Julius beseech for peace, for repentance for the poor storm-tossed soul; but when the raving grew past control, and the time was coming for his ministrations to the Vicar of Wil'sbro', he was forced to leave her.

27 examples of  storm-tossed  in sentences