Which preposition to use with tempest

of Occurrences 121%

For hordes of brutal soldiery had invaded the fertile soil, the tempest of war had swept the land and left it desolate.

of Occurrences 68%

But the dream vanishes, the vision fades away, and I think of the six pale, still faces as I saw them last, and of the names that are chiseled upon the cold marble that stands through the sunny spring-time, the heat of summer, the autumnal days, and the storms and tempests of winter, over the graves of the dead.

in Occurrences 33%

He knows the arctic cold, the tropic heat; the forest and the plain; the mountain and the marsh; the brook and river; the peak and the precipice; the glacier and the tempest in their course.

on Occurrences 11%

Not until his followers were in such a frenzied condition that it seemed impossible another's will could restrain them, did Thayendanega speak, and then in a few words of the Indian language, uttered in so low a tone that I could not distinguish a single syllable, he calmed the tempest on the instant, until those who had been howling for our lives became like lambs.

in Occurrences 10%

Everybody was dancing The Tempest in his or her own fashion, thought the Admiral, looking on.

en Occurrences 10%

[Footnote 1: 'J'ai passé moi-même chez une peuplade Indienne, qui se prenaît a pleurer à la vue d'un voyageur, parce qu'il lui rappelait des amis partis pour la contrée des Ames, et depuis long-temps en voyage. CHATEAUBRIAND.]

from Occurrences 7%

Such is the state of men in honour plac'd; They are gold vessels made for servile uses; High trees that keep the weather from low houses, But cannot shield the tempest from themselves.

on Occurrences 7%

Contending tempests on his naked head.

with Occurrences 5%

But as an old sailor, weary with the battle of many storms, learns at last to treat the thunder and the tempest with a certain tolerant contempt, so he, having passed through evil monarchies and corrupt regencies, through the storm of anarchy and the humiliation of a brief and ridiculous republic, now stood aside and watched the waves go past him with a semi-contemptuous indifference.

at Occurrences 5%

This so-called translation in prose may have been forged either in whole or in part; but the weirdness, strange imagery, melancholy, and "other-world talk of ghosts riding on the tempest at nightfall," had a pronounced effect on romantic literature.

at Occurrences 4%

I will animate your courage in the midst of those tempests at which you are so terrified even on shore.

for Occurrences 4%

" "I should like to see them," say I, decisively; "shall we, general?" "Will you spare Lady Tempest for five minutes?" says the young man, addressing my husband; "it is not a hundred yards off.

to Occurrences 4%

Bruce wanted to attempt it with Myra Mooney, but she was horrified, and insisted on dancing the 1880 trois-temps to a jerky American two-step.

through Occurrences 3%

Indeed, what with the noise of the tempest through the rigging and the flashes of lightning and the pealing of the thunder and the clapping of an unfurled sail in the darkness, and the shouting of orders in a strange language by the Captain of the craft, who was running up and down like a bedlamite, it was like pandemonium with all the devils of the pit broke loose into the night.

to Occurrences 3%

Come, Gabriella, let us sett her downe; And seate her easylie, doe not hurt my queene; The downie breathe that sweepes alongst the meads, Kissinge the gentyll flowers that sweeten hym, Are stormes and tempests to her tenderness: [They place the dead bodye in a chayre.

as Occurrences 3%

On Easter Day the Bavarian peasants make garlands of coltsfoot and throw them into the fire; and in the district of Lechrain every household brings to the sacred fire which is lighted at Easter a walnut branch, which, when partially burned, is laid on the hearth-fire during tempests as a charm against lightning.

before Occurrences 3%

After telling his mission, and giving orders to hundreds of invisible spirits round about him (for the air was full of them), he and Foul-Mouth, his servant, entered the horses of Rinaldo and Ricciardetto, which began to neigh and snort and leap with the fiends within them, till off they flew through the air over the pyramids, crowds of spirits going like a tempest before them.

into Occurrences 3%

At length, on the fourth day, having found some people, we rejoiced like seafaring men, who had escaped from a tempest into a safe harbour.

against Occurrences 2%

He was like a Dutch tempest against a windmill.

down Occurrences 2%

Like a tempest down the ridges, Swept the hurricane of steel, Rose the slogan of Macdonald Flashed the broadsword of Locheill! Vainly sped the withering volley 'Mongst the foremost of our band On we poured until we met them, Foot to foot, and hand to hand.

like Occurrences 2%

"But Maso and Nettuno are poor substitutes, in a tempest like this, for the servants and beasts of St. Bernard.

off Occurrences 2%

Continuing their voyage, they were assailed by a sudden tempest off Cape Corientes, in which the ship commanded by Stephen de Gama had her sails all split by the storm, owing to which she was separated from the fleet, and no more seen till six days after the arrival of the admiral at Lisbon, when she came in with her mast broken.

Occurrences 2%

DE NOS S, dans le temps nous vivons.

over Occurrences 2%

Intoxicated by his success, Timur rushes like a tempest over the whole East.

by Occurrences 2%

Ninon, however, calmed the tempest by suggesting a way out of the difficulty through the hazard of the dice.

Which preposition to use with  tempest