I thought of snatching it away, but that would have created a turmoil, which is always to be avoided if possible.

Khumbaba hath enjoyed great Accad's spoils Too long; with him we end these long turmoils.

'Tis unmeet, if he hears Our turmoil or is burdened with our tears.

The proximity of Graham to Katherine quieted the turmoil of Bobby's thoughts.

Next, whereas he might have checked the turmoil of the citizens, he not only failed to do so, but set you at variance when you were in concord, partly by his own acts and partly through the medium of others.

Beyond the orchard wall there was a hodgepodge of noises, among which a nice ear might distinguish the clatter of hoofs, a yelping and scurrying, and a contention of soft bodies, and above all a man's voice commanding the turmoil.

Haines could hardly conceal the turmoil of his mind.

When she reached the city Eva found turmoil there.

Spray blew about the boats and the crested seas broke in foaming turmoil against the towed vessel's side until she drew in behind the Isleta.

Intense lassitude followed the wild mental turmoil of that night.

in a tone that foreboded turmoil.

What soul can be so sick, which by thy songs (Attir'd in sweetness) sweetly is not driven Quite to forget earth's turmoils, spites, and wrongs, And lift a reverend eye and thought to heaven?

She had done wondersand it was natural for those folk, safe at hame, and far, far away frae all the turmoil and the stress of the fighting, to think that they had done enough.

"We know this Gregory Darrell," the Queen said in the darkness, "ah, to the marrow we know him, however steadfastly we blink, and we know the present turmoil of his soul; and in common-sense what chance have you of victory?" "None in common-sense, madame, and yet you go too fast.

He told the constable it was his duty, as a police-officer, to arrest those men for carrying deadly weapons and making such a turmoil in the street; and he threatened to complain of him if he did not do it.

Though in '61 he advocated a foreign war as a means for bringing together North and South, and desired to shelve practically Lincoln while he himself stood at the front to manage the turmoil, he made no more mistakes than statesmen in general.

But in their insistence upon this particular minute I had found something so hideously solemn, yet mock-solemn, personal, and as it were addressed to me, that when my own watch dared to point to the same moment, I was thrown into one of those sudden, paroxysmal, panting turmoils of mind, half rage, half horror, which have hardly once visited me since I left the Boreal.

The gong signaled half-speed, and when he slowed his engines the roar of escaping steam pierced the turmoil of the surf.

O'Connell was not admitted to Parliament; but his case precipitated an intense turmoil, which settled the question forever; for then the great general who had defeated Napoleon, and was the idol of the nation, seeing the difficulties of coercion as no other statesman did, and influenced by Sir Robert Peel (for whom he had unbounded respect), made one of his masterly retreats, by which he averted revolution and bloodshed.

At dawn he lit the fire himself, made breakfast, and woke the others, and by seven they were well on their way back to the home campthree perplexed and afflicted men, but each in his own way having reduced his inner turmoil to a condition of more or less systematized order again.

At first the literature, as shown especially in the early work of Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, reflected the turmoil of the age and the wild hopes of an ideal democracy occasioned by the French Revolution.

Yet I am inclined to think that Arnold has penetrated the true meaning, and shows us the reason for Fabricius' exclamation when he states the Epicurean philosophy, as expounded by Cineas, to be "that war and state affairs were but toil and trouble, and that the wise man should imitate the blissful rest of the gods, who, dwelling in their own divinity, regarded not the vain turmoil of this lower world.

Above once more, he saw a hideous turmoil in the black fabricjust windan avalanche of wind that gouged the sea, that could have shaken mountains....

The old belief was that they grew nine inches in about three weeks, and as suddenly sought the turmoil of the sea.)

They stirred up a continuous turmoil, and made much trouble for the larger company, though their patent claims were persistently defeated in the courts.