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- adverb In a
stormful manner.
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Examples
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The years that bring us many ills, and that pass so stormfully over us, bear away with them the ugliness, the weariness, the pain that are theirs, but the beauty, the sweetness, the rest they leave untouched, for these are eternal.
Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898
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Donald was always ready, and even anxious, to say a few friendly words, but the Mayor invariably gazed stormfully past him, like one who had endured and lost on his account, and could in no sense forgive the wrong; nor did Farfrae's snubbed manner of perplexity at all appease him.
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His mighty chest expanded and stood out like a shield, and the muscles of his neck, stronger than a bull's, became clear and distinct, and his gathering ire and stern resolution rushed stormfully through his nostrils.
The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887
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Inane; haste stormfully across the astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane.
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Donald was always ready, and even anxious, to say a few friendly words, but the Mayor invariably gazed stormfully past him, like one who had endured and lost on his account, and could in no sense forgive the wrong; nor did Farfrae's snubbed manner of perplexity at all appease him.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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'We emerge from the Inane; haste stormfully across the astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane ....
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle John Morley 1880
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Thus, like a God - created fire-breathing spirit host, we emerge from the Inane, haste stormfully across the astonished earth, then plunge again into the Inane.
Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863
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Din of battles, wars more than civil, confusion from above and from below: in such environment the eye of Prophecy sees Comte de Mirabeau, like some Cardinal de Retz, stormfully maintain himself; with head all-devising, heart all-daring, if not victorious, yet unvanquished, while life is left him.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Most beneficial: had not Drouet stormfully ordered otherwise; and even bellowed, in his extremity, "Cannoneers to your guns!"
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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He delighted most to be there when tempests were abroad; his unquiet spirit found a solace in the expression of his own unrest on the face of Nature; danger lent a charm to his situation; he felt in harmony with the scene, when the rack was sweeping stormfully across the heavens, and the forests were sounding in the breeze, and the river was rolling its chafed waters into wild eddying heaps.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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