Raging Sentence Examples

The battle had been raging for some time.

They drew up closer to the fire and felt thankful that they were safe from the raging storm.

Carmen stared at the raging torrent.

The air between them was as calm and peaceful as it was raging around them.

They turned him over to the secular arm for execution, had been raging between the Bohemians and Germans, was destined to cause Eugenius IV.

I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next about eleven at night of a raging fever.

On the conclusion of the Peace of Oliva, which adjusted the long outstanding differences between Poland and Sweden, Czarniecki was transferred to the eastern frontier where the war with Muscovy was still raging.

In the dry season little more than brooks, they become raging torrents in the wet season.

A blizzard had been raging over the Christmas period, and large snow drifts built up.

You are a raging alcoholic, aren't you?

This dramatic representation of the sufferings of Christ is not a survival of a medieval mystery or miracleplay, but took its rise from a vow made by the inhabitants in 1633, with the hope of staying a plague then raging.

At Ceneda in Venetia he died of a raging fever.

Many scholars connect the origin of the deity with the popular German and Swedish belief in a raging host (in Germany called das wiitende Heer or Wutes Heer, but in Sweden Odens Jagt), which passes through the forests on stormy nights.

Almost immediately afterwards he was inoculated for smallpox, which was raging in Princeton and vicinity, and, always feeble, he died of the inoculation on the 28th of March 1758.

A conflict was raging between the Hungarians and Rumanians, and history was required to furnish proofs of the greater antiquity of the Rumanians in Transylvania.

After a mission into Normandy, Carrier was sent, early in October 1793, to Nantes, under orders from the Convention to suppress the revolt which was raging there, by the most severe measures.

A raging mob surrounded the palace, clamouring for Godoys head; and the favorites life was only saved by Charles TVs announcement of his abdication in favor of Ferdinand (March 17).

She was hesitant, and he kissed her gently, not wanting to scare her despite his raging blood.

Elise was there, one hand aiming the laser at the raging man with the other hand planted on Lana's shoulder to prevent her from entering the potential line of fire.

He dropped to the ground, unable to stabilize the raging power within him or release it to destroy everything around him as he planned.

We're all trapped by a raging bliz­zard in an obscure little hotel on the French Riviera.

This event, a Winter Pairs match, was fished in a raging blizzard with a north wind to help cool things down.

It was the first recorded instance of cunning defeating brawn, but the battle has been raging ever since.

The raging bull will then expire in a china shop!

Next morning the poor man was smitten with a raging fever.

I had suffered with raging toothache for ten years.

But it is seldom realized that the US and Britain have largely provoked the civil war now that is raging across central Iraq.

Even Frank seemed somewhat downcast â a bad sign, as heâs normally a cheery soul, despite the anger raging inside him.

A raging ectomorph will need more carbs than a carb-sensitive endomorph at the same protein level.

More critical was the fever from the viral encephalitis raging in her brain.

Another craft, and brighter, may stem the raging gale, Thy plea of sixty winters, old friend, can never fail.

The game of games according to some, backgammon turns perfectly well behaved men into raging gamesters.

It's almost enough to make a man forget his raging hangover.

Soon he's got his camcorder rolling, a raging hard-on in his p.. .

Within minutes the structure was engulfed in a raging inferno.

The drug, fur and timber Mafias are doing a raging business.

Care is also taken to show that, maybe, not all the German soldiers were raging psychopaths after all.

Like being charged full-on by a raging bull rhino.

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Bethany wrote... " I wish my smiles could still the raging tempest of the Saturday shoppers.

Another great way to work up a raging thirst for the evening.

About eight o'clock in the evening, a noise is heard, dis- tinct even above the raging of the hurricane.

The Clough Brook becomes a raging torrent in stormy weather.

They can't explain why the slow trickle away from final salary schemes has become a raging torrent.

How could such a hot button item go from raging controversy to nearly universal acceptance in such a short time?

When people think of raging wildfires, they worry about Bambi, not Kermit.

A letter was now awaiting despatch to Grouchy, and to it was added a postscript that the battle was raging with Wellington, that Billow's corps had been sighted by the emperor, and that the marshal was to hasten to the field and crush Billow.

In valleys where they have been rashly cut away, and the waters pour down the slopes unchecked, every tiny rivulet becomes a raging torrent, that carries off the grassy slopes and devastates the floor of the valley, covering the soil with gravel and debris.

The cannon were roaring, the balls were flying, the battle was raging.

The people for miles around were roused as though a fire were raging.

Enjoy an exhilerating day on the water where you will experience raging rapids, cascading waterfalls and nail-biting competition.

I had a raging thirst and back ache from bending and stooping, he said.

Raging blizzards force them into a hut for five days whilst temperatures plummet.

In fact, I had a raging hangover which was n't my fault at all and was extremely tired due to lack of sleep.

In the year 1800 the scourge of war, with famine in its wake, was raging over Europe.

Bethany wrote... I wish my smiles could still the raging tempest of the Saturday shoppers.

They ca n't explain why the slow trickle away from final salary schemes has become a raging torrent.

Here's a three-part remedy that you can use the next time you wake up with a raging hangover.

Hormones are raging, and tempers can easily flare.

If your wedding is cancelled or postponed because a raging hurricane causes your town to evacuate, you have a case.

She's asking for a lump payment of $245,000 to pay for the legal fees for her other case against Jackson - the child custody battle that has been raging since 2003.

Robert DeNiro - This Raging Bull star may pack a mean punch on-screen, but in real life, this dentophobe can't seem to defeat his fear of going to the dentist.

Roman Rapids - This river ride offers park visitors a trip through ancient Rome via raging rapids.

Today, thousands of guests each day "run with the bull," making Raging Bull one of the park's most popular attractions.

Raging Bull is a steel coaster manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, a world-renowned designer for thrilling and innovative roller coasters.

If Raging Bull may be too intimidating for park guests, there are eleven other coasters and dozens of thrill rides to choose from for a less intense but still exciting visit.

As the world's first hyper-twister coaster - named for its impressive height and convoluted track layout - Raging Bull is not for everyone.

Because Raging Bull is one of the park's most popular coasters, the wait can be several hours long during peak hours each summer.

The Raging Bull roller coaster is a terrifying and delightful ride at Six Flags Great America and one that is sure to continue encouraging riders to test the limits of their fear for many years to come.

There you go round and round, accelerating like a cannonball, spinning in circles until you plunge into the raging water below.

New rides including the Raging Thunder Log Flume helped, as did the Galaxi roller coaster.

The massive body of water is fed by a raging waterfall that towers 13 feet in the air and measure 30 feet across.

His narration, sometimes grim and sometimes raging, is a gritty contrast to the real satisfaction you feel after clearing Germans out of a town, or blasting away obstacles so your reinforcements can land safely.

Bison hosted the second world warrior tournament, wherein he is killed by Akuma's (Gouki in Japan) Shun Goku Satsu (Instant Hell Murder, or The Raging Demon).

The Xbox contains an Intel Pentium III processor that runs at a raging 733 megahertz, faster than either the Playstation 2 or the Nintendo Gamecube.

The shorts feature an image of a raging bull, which is Occy's moniker.

All of this attention brought American designers much-deserved attention from the fashion media, and Press Week was considered a raging success from their point of view.

In spite of the war raging from 1939 to 1945, the NFIP focused on the efforts of the mission with the help of Hollywood support and the President by creating a network of local chapters dedicated to fundraising and education.

It is a hip way to freshen up your daytime looks and still fit at the raging nightclubs.

Throughout season one, Tara's aggressive personality disguised a great deal of pain associated with her mother's raging alcoholism.

Despite raging debates, the need for healthcare reform in America is universally accepted.

They stand on their own in the face of the raging medical debate.

Was the Live8 concert the final flicker of a once raging fire that was Pink Floyd?

She then ventures into the world of Gotham to experience the city's raging underground motorcycle racing crowd and somehow manages to get herself an alter-ego of her own as Batgirl.

The debate regarding whether bloggers who report local, national and global news are legitimate journalists has been raging at least for the past three or four years.

When the stream became visible, the flow was light, a far cry from the raging torrent Dean remembered from late spring when the melting snow increased the flow of the Uncompahgre a hundred fold.

Actually, Skippy, I'm quite a mellow alcoholic, not raging at all, lucky for you.

They clung to each other, molding their bodies as one until the raging fire of passion consumed her.

She melted in his arms, consumed by the raging fire of emotion his embrace never failed to ignite.

Scarcely, however, had he sailed from Brindisi when he fell sick of a fever which had been raging for some time among the ranks of his army, while they waited for the crossing.

Nergal is called the "raging king," the "furious one," and the like, and by a play upon his name - separated into' three elements Ne-urugal "lord of the great dwelling" - his position at the head of the nether-world pantheon is indicated.

To the following year (1688) belongs his Digression sur les anciens et les modernes, in which he took the modern side in the controversy then raging; his Doutes sur le systeme physique des causes occasionnelles (against Malebranche) appeared shortly afterwards.

The water-demon Grendel and the dragon (probably), by whom Beowulf is mortally wounded, have been supposed to represent the powers of autumn and darkness, the floods which at certain seasons overflow the low-lying countries on the coast of the North Sea and sweep away all human habitations; Beowulf is the hero of spring and light who, after overcoming the spirit of the raging waters, finally succumbs to the dragon of approaching winter.

And now, throughout the provinces of Asia Minor, in Rome, and even in Gaul, amidst the raging of persecution, attention was attracted to this remarkable movement.

It is now time to return to the southern theatre of the battlefield, where an entirely independent engagement had been raging all the afternoon.

Except the Caledon, Vaal and Orange, they are dry or nearly dry for three or four months in the year, but in the rainy season they are often raging torrents.

Dionysus afterwards descended to the nether world, and brought up his mother, henceforth known as Thyone (the raging one), to Olympus.

Diverging to Hamath and Aleppo, on his return to Damascus, he found the Black Death raging, so that two thousand four hundred died in one day.

After the death of Pamphilus Eusebius withdrew to Tyre, and later, while the Diocletian persecution was still raging, went to Egypt, where he seems to have been imprisoned, but soon released.

Having compelled all the world to recognize his divinity, he descended to the underworld to bring up his mother, who was afterwards worshipped with him under the name of Thyone (" the raging "), he himself being called after her Thyoneus.

While the controversy on compulsory military service was raging in the late autumn of 1915, he stated his own view to be that it was a better system than the voluntary system, but could only be gained at too high a price - namely, the price of national unity.

It was raging from 1088 to 1091, and again from 1093 to 1096, when Robert tired of the losing game, pawned his duchy to his brother and went off on the First Crusade.

Extending as it does over the whole " month of raging heat," such a fast manifestly involves considerable self-denial; and it is absolutely binding upon all the faithful whether at home or abroad.

Fully one-half of its length is through the mountainous districts of central Bolivia, where it is fed by a large number of rivers and streams from the snowclad peaks, and may be described as a raging torrent.

The contact of their skin was causing a raging fire within him.

A fierce fight was soon raging for the villages.

While rebellion was raging in Oudh he issued a proclamation declaring the lands of the province forfeited; and this step gave rise to much angry controversy.

During his three years' residence at the Belgian capital he found ample scope for his gifts as a diplomatist in the education controversy then raging, and as mediator between the Jesuits and the Catholic university of Louvain.

But with the struggle raging before him he remained undecided, until at Jena the decision had clearly fallen, and then he crossed the river and arrived with fresh troops too late for their services to be required.

In 1895-1899, owing to the war, there were few non-immune persons in the city, and there was no trouble with the fever, but from the autumn of 1899 a heavy immigration from Spain began, and a fever epidemic was raging in 1900.

It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other.

The stay of Vigilantius lasted for some time; but, as was almost inevitable, he was dragged into the dispute then raging about Origen, in which he did not see fit wholly to adopt Jerome's attitude.

Before he left Paris he had thrown himself with ardour into the controversy raging between the university and the Friar-Preachers respecting the liberty of teaching, resisting both by speeches and pamphlets the authorities of the university; and when the dispute was referred to the pope, the youthful Aquinas was chosen to defend his order, which he did with such success as to overcome the arguments of Guillaume de St Amour, the champion of the university, and one of the most celebrated men of the day.

In the monothelite controversy then raging he acted with cautious reserve, refraining at least from express condemnation of the Typus of Constans II.

When her face became a raging inferno, he smiled.

As far as the other colonies were concerned, it was evident that the bill was safe, and public attention throughout Australia was fixed on New South Wales, where a fierce political contest was raging, which it was recognized would decide the fate of the measure for the time being.

Harassed by severe bodily ailments, encompassed by a raging tumult of religious conflict and persecution, and aware that the faint hopes of better times which seemed to gild the horizon of the future might be utterly darkened by a failure either in the constancy of his courage or in his discernment and discretion, he exerted his eloquence with unabating energy in the furtherance of the cause he had at heart.

Civil war was raging in France, and Clement became an ardent partisan of the League; his mind appears to have become unhinged by religious fanaticism, and he talked of exterminating the heretics, and formed a plan to kill Henry III.

On the 12th of September 1812, he started with two Armenian servants, crossed the Araxes, rode from Tabriz to Erivan, from Erivan to Kars, from Kars to Erzerum, from Erzerum to Chiflik, urged on from place to place by a thoughtless Tatar guide, and, though the plague was raging at Tokat (near Eski-Shehr in Asia Minor), he was compelled by prostration to stop there.