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- noun Plural form of
tempest .
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Examples
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Mr. Flint, any more than Ulysses himself, cannot recall the tempests when his own followers have slit the bags -- and in sight of Ithaca!
Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909
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Mr. Flint, any more than Ulysses himself, cannot recall the tempests when his own followers have slit the bags -- and in sight of Ithaca!
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Mr. Flint, any more than Ulysses himself, cannot recall the tempests when his own followers have slit the bags -- and in sight of Ithaca!
Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Just as the Greeks fancied that the tempests were the effect of
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I found the most interesting part to be on late 18th century science as it related to the study of "tempests".
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I found the most interesting part to be on late 18th century science as it related to the study of "tempests".
Archive 2008-08-01 jmnlman 2008
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He believed with those who say that the men who dares the 'tempests' wrath, 'and the' billows 'madden'd play' on the errand of saving life, to be as great heroes as those who 'seek for bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth.'
The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe Henry Woodcock
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We have few "tempests" in Denboro, those we do have are almost worthy of the name.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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In the life of the family, the critical moments of birth, puberty, marriage, and death regularly recur, and keep up the instinct, because man is then brought face to face with these eternal facts; there is no need of extraordinary perils, such as tempests or pestilences, to keep the instinct alive.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Whatever else betide, I have good health, and good spirits, and bright hopes, and I feel very much in the humor of enjoying the wildest kind of tempests which Providence may send to howl around my dwelling.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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