Stormy Sentence Examples

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  • In stormy weather they are sometimes of a dark slate-color.

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  • The stormy note was back in his voice.

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  • He built him a little hut for shelter at night and in stormy weather.

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  • He was still bristling with stormy energy.

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  • It was long since there had been so stormy a meeting.

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  • I have felt it on cold, stormy days and at night.

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  • When it rose early it was a sign of summer; when late, of winter and stormy weather; when it rose about midnight it heralded the season of vintage.

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  • The proceedings of the council were frequently very stormy, and the opponents of the dogma of infallibility complained that they were not unfrequently interrupted, and that endeavours were made to put them down by clamour.

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  • Stormy discussions at Lucca followed; but they failed to prevent Gregory from nominating four fresh cardinals (May 9, 1408).

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  • He went across the narrow yard to the sheds where the cattle were kept in stormy weather.

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  • They all froze, and a look of surprise crossed Rainy's stormy features.

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  • This man was the stormy petrel of the period.

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  • Perhaps the Old Sea God as he lay asleep upon the shore, heard the soft music of growing things--the stir of life in the earth's bosom, and his stormy heart was angry, because he knew that his and Winter's reign was almost at an end.

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  • On stormy days, as already mentioned, the irregular changes hardly admit of satisfactory treatment.

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  • The air around her crackled, Jonny's stormy power and the Other's cold lightening making her skin crawl.

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  • Only in the first stormy years of her reign did she summon the diet; after 1764 she dispensed with it altogether.

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  • This Christian kingdom - situated in the midst of Moslem states, hostile to the Byzantines, giving valuable support to the crusaders, and trading with the great commercial cities of Italy - had a stormy existence of about 300 years.

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  • Though naturally passionate, Matthias's self-control was almost superhuman, and throughout his stormy life, with his innumerable experiences of ingratitude and treachery, he never was guilty of a single cruel or vindictive action.

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  • Even the stormy days of the last persecution yielded some considerable writers, such as Methodius in the East and Lactantius in the West.

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  • The harbour is one of the best on the east coast of England, and in stormy weather is largely used for shelter.

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  • He was not so fortunate in 1849, when he underwent a year's durance for resistance to the authorities of Dusseldorf during the troubles of that stormy period.

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  • These conditions were submitted to Constantinople, and rejected after a stormy debate in the divan.

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  • In summer the stormy westerly winds withdraw from these lower latitudes, which are then to be more associated with the trade winds.

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  • Kandahar has a stormy history.

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  • In the stormy conflict between the rival popes which followed, the German king, Frederick IV., after some hesitation sided with Eugenius, and having steadily lost ground Felix renounced his claim to the pontificate in 1449 in favour of Nicholas V., who had been elected on the death of Eugenius.

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  • There was a stormy scene, and the elder Feuillet cut off his son, who returned to Paris and lived as best he could by a scanty journalism.

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  • The Grey God's face grew stormy, and anger colored his features.

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  • While the Grey God appeared calm, his air was agitated and his gaze stormy.

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  • Rhyn's gaze was stormy.

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  • During a stormy night on 5 February 1801 AMELIA captured the French privateer brig LA JUSTE of St. Malo.

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  • On 31 August, during a wet, stormy night, Sir William Balfour broke through the Royalist lines with about 2,000 parliamentarian cavalry.

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  • Mature silver eels migrate downstream from the first stormy night in October for two weeks (Fig 3 ).

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  • One stormy evening, a burning fireball fell from the sky and crashed near the hut.

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  • Stormy passage to South Georgia The ship finally sailed from Stanley early on Saturday morning straight into a westerly gale.

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  • The sea is rough, and the weather is stormy.

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  • He sank into stormy contemplation, clueless how to handle the latest of his challenges.

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  • Eden said, gaze stormy.

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  • The same deficiency became still more apparent when, between 1869 and 1871, he published his Hand-List of Genera and Species of Birds in three 1813-1814, p. xxviii.); but, through the derangements of that stormy period, the order was never carried out (Mem.

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  • But it was at the stormy riksdag of 1789 that Wallqvist put forth all his powers.

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  • At the end of the six months Pretorius, after a stormy meeting of the volksraad, apparently in disgust at the whole situation, resigned the presidency of the Transvaal.

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  • Stormy weather caused some delays in continuing the programme, but heavily armed vessels 'made their way a short distance up channel on several days early in March and engaged some of the enemy works that were sited about the Narrows.'

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  • Impressed by the unsatisfactory positions in which the Allied troops found themselves on the peninsula, by the impossibility of their making any progress at their existing strength, and by the risks that the army ran in remaining on such shores without any safe harbour to depend upon for base in stormy weather, Monro, after examining the situation on the spot in the closing days of Oct., declared unhesitatingly for a complete withdrawal.

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  • Layard's political life was somewhat stormy.

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  • His youth was a more stormy one than that of Tibullus, and was passed, not like his, among the "healthy woods" of his country estate, but amid all the licence of the capital.

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  • In navigation he suggested many new contrivances, such as water-tight compartments, floating anchors to lay a ship to in a storm, and dishes that would not upset during a gale; and beginning in 1757 made repeated experiments with oil on stormy waters.

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  • For forty-six years of a stormy political life he remained true to the cardinal policy that he had announced to the electors of Kingston in 1844.

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  • With the introduction of universal equal suffrage the stormy suffrage agitation came to rest, although one of its demands was unfulfilled, namely female suffrage for the Austrian House of Deputies.

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  • This theory may have been nothing more than an instance of the Greek tendency to assign a northern or "hyperborean" home to deities in whose character something analogous to the stormy elements of nature was found.

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  • Although his pontificate had been so stormy and unhappy that he is said to have regretted on his death-bed that he ever left his monastery, nevertheless Eugenius's victory over the council of Basel and his efforts in behalf of church unity contributed greatly to break down the conciliar movement and restore the papacy to the position it had held before the Great Schism.

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  • The rule of Alstahoug extended over all the neighbouring districts, including Dass's native island of Hero, and its privileges were accompanied by great perils, for it was necessary to be constantly crossing stormy firths of sea.

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  • Eugenius retained the stoic virtues of monasticism throughout his stormy career, and was deeply reverenced for his personal character.

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  • The operations of naval forces in the New World were largely dictated by the facts that from June to October are the hurricane months in the West Indies, while from October to June includes the stormy winter of the northern coast.

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  • All that could be done in that cause, during this stormy epoch, was done by Eugenius.

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  • On the 21st of March the British fleet, after a somewhat stormy passage, was at the entrance to the Sound.

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  • The first years of his administration were stormy.

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  • During these stormy years he wrote his Aphorisms of Justification, which on its appearance in 1649 excited great controversy.

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  • The northern shore is separated from the sea by an extremely narrow strip of land, across which, when the Mediterranean is stormy and the lake full, the waters meet.

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  • For a time the Uskoks only ventured forth by night, in winter and stormy weather.

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  • He was a quarrelsome man, and after a stormy episcopate, died on the 19th of December 1343.

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  • Three years after this unhappy marriage Louis entered upon his stormy political career.

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  • They passed a stormy winter and confirmed Borchgrevink's conclusion that it was impossible to make any extensive journeys either on the sea-ice, which frequently blew out to sea, or by land from this base.

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  • His reign was one of the most stormy in the annals of Islam, but also one of the most glorious.

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  • The reign of Mamunthat reign in which art, science and letters, under the patronage of the caliph, threw so brilliant a lustre - had a very stormy beginning.

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  • It is spoken of in the Iliad as the stormy abode of Selli who sleep on the ground and wash not their feet, and in the Odyssey an imaginary visit of Odysseus to the oracle is referred to.

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  • Later, in the Reconstruction period, he commanded the Fifth Military District (Louisiana and Texas) at New Orleans, where his administration of the conquered states was most stormy, his differences with President Johnson culminating in his recall in September 1867.

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  • This brought him into collision with the civil power, an attitude which he maintained throughout a stormy and eventful life.

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  • The whole tangled skein of Italian politics, in that involved and stormy period, is unravelled with a patience and an insight that are above praise.

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  • His next period was stormy and controversial.

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  • The parliament which met in April 1614, in which Bacon sat for Cambridge Univeristy, and was dissolved in June, after a stormy session, was by no means in a frame of mind suitable for the king's purposes.

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  • It had a stormy experience during the three centuries preceding the Christian era.

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  • One stormy night the lamp was blown out and Leander perished.

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  • And if at the very end of his stormy career he really found time and inclination to write anything of this nature, we may wonder why it was not included in the considerable and somewhat miscellaneous volume of his works, or at least mentioned in the chapters which relate to his public activity after the catastrophe.

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  • He died on the 24th of November 1572, and at his funeral in St Giles' Churchyard the new Regent Morton, speaking under the hostile guns of the castle, expressed the first surprise of those around as they looked back on that stormy life, that one who had "neither flattered nor feared any flesh" had now "ended his days in peace and honour."

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  • His term of office was a stormy one.

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  • It is wet and stormy all the year through, though the rainfall is much less than that of Ancud and Valdivia.

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  • It was natural, therefore, that in the series of stormy debates, protracted through several years, that ended in the downfall of Walpole, his eloquence should have been one of the strongest of the forces that combined to bring about the final result.

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  • Columns (a) and (b), forming the strongest part of the army, and also column (c) soon met with strong resistance (morning 22nd), and the country, the weather (stormy since the 20th) and tactical incidents making progress uneven, the front at nightfall of the 22nd was very sinuous, the Turks holding pronounced salients at Eski Polos, and .also at Almajik, while the Bulgarians had penetrated nearly to Kadikoi in the centre and within 2 m.

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  • The discussions were very stormy.

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  • His youth and early manhood, spent perhaps chiefly at Padua, were cast in stormy times, and the impression which they left upon his mind was ineffaceable.

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  • He never ceased to urge moderation in those stormy days, holding rather with &StvOs and Batthyany than with Kossuth, and he went more than once to Vienna to endeavour to effect a compromise between the Radicals and the court.

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  • The brothers Antoine and Arnaud d'Abbadie spent ten years (1838-1848) in the country, making scientific investigations of great value, and also involving themselves in the stormy politics of the country.

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  • His son, Dirk VII., had a stormy, but on the whole successful reign.

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  • As an outlet for Montenegrin commerce, however, Antivari cannot compete with the Austrian Cattaro, the harbour being somewhat difficult of access in stormy weather.

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  • Though, during the few remaining years of his life, Forster's political record covered various interesting subjects, his connexion with these stormy times in Ireland throws them all into shadow.

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  • After much factious strife, and many stormy meetings of the Witan, Edward was murdered at Corfe in 978 by some thegns of the party of the queen-dowager.

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  • It was a different thing for John and his successors to undertake the long voyage to Bordeaux, around the stormy headlands of Brittany and across the Bay of Biscay.

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  • But after frequent stormy scenes in the diet, which were only prevented from becoming mêlées by Fersen's moderation, or hesitation, at the critical moment, he and twenty of his friends of the nobility were arrested (17th February 1789) and the opposition collapsed.

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  • His natural arrogance and tyranny seems to have increased with years, and the second period of his governorship was a stormy one.

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  • Beginning to practise in 1834, Juarez speedily rose to professional distinction, and in the stormy political life of his time took a prominent part as an exponent of liberal views.

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  • Her love for Kiartan the poet, and his career abroad, his betrayal by his friend Bolli, the sad death of Kiartan at his hands, the revenge taken for him on Bolli, whose slayers are themselves afterwards put to death, and the end of Gudrun, who becomes an anchorite after her stormy life, make up the pith of the story.

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  • From the date of its occupation by the Arabs the town had a stormy history, being repeatedly captured by rival Berber and Spanish-Moorish dynasties.

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  • The lateness of the season forced him to round Cape Horn in very stormy weather, and the navigating instruments of the time did not allow of exact observation.

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  • An invasion of England was planned in 1483 in concert with the duke of Buckingham's rising; but stormy weather at sea and an inundation in the Severn defeated the two movements.

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  • Their past has been stormy, and their ruler has attained power after defeating and mediatizing a more ancient dynasty of his own kindred.

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  • His essentially bold and practical genius sought at once the stormy political arena.

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  • This Christian kingdom in the midst of Moslem states, hostile to the Byzantines, giving valuable support to the leaders of the crusades, and trading with the great commercial cities of Italy, had a stormy existence of about 300 years.

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  • At a stormy meeting held at the Duma he was asked by his political friends to resign his post, and when he refused to do so they struck his name off the list of members of the party.

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  • On a stormy night in 1336 the local villagers saw a lone horseman dressed in black approach the castle.

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  • There he freed captives unjustly imprisoned, saved sailors in stormy seas, redeemed young girls who were bound for child prostitution.

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  • The happy audience strolled back out into the stormy night feeling much levity in comparison to the evenings heavy weather.

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  • You are the stormy petrel of crime, Watson.

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  • Dora and I were contemplating walking into Barnsley directly after lunch, but it was so rainy and stormy we had to stay in.

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  • For she had a stormy, troubled soul, capable of black cruelty and then again of the deepest generosities.

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  • A historical lack of resources coupled with long term political differences made the meeting stormy.

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  • My somewhat stormy relationship with food started at a young age.

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  • The two arts, dance and film, have enjoyed a passionate, sometimes stormy marriage ever since.

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  • Raining on and off all day, rather stormy, posted papers home.

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  • In the early days they had some very stormy Annual General Meetings.

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  • Early communication of basic needs empowers and comforts small babies, easing the often stormy period between 17 months and two years.

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  • Here's wishing you all a prosperous but extremely stormy New Year!

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  • Week ending 25th started misty becoming stormy (Tuesday) fairing up again occasional showers.

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  • But by then the weather had gotten too stormy, and Luna's family was not around.

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  • The Clough Brook becomes a raging torrent in stormy weather.

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  • Industrial cylinder vacuum cleaners... free from stormy surge had industrial cylinder vacuum cleaners are numerous varieties door.. .

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  • On this occasion, following the recent stormy weather, the u/w visibility was a more disappointing 6 meters.

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  • During the stormy session, French had a waitress who was wearing a French maid's uniform serve drinks to him.

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  • His numerous editorial and critical works spread his fame as a scholar throughout Europe, and engaged him in many of the stormy disputes which were then so common among men of letters.

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  • During the stormy session of 1770 he came into violent collision with Chatham and Camden in the questions that arose out of the Middlesex election and the trials for political libel; and in the subsequent years he was made the subject of the bitter attacks of Junius, in which his early Jacobite connexions, and his.

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  • The whole aspect of Badajoz recalls its stormy history; even the cathedral, built in 1258, resembles a fortress, with massive embattled walls.

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  • Muraviev died suddenly on the 21st of June 5900, of apoplexy, brought on, it was said, by a stormy interview with the tsar.

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  • The Polish committee, which had been formed on a political basis, was dissolved after unprecedentedly stormy negotiations, due to discontent at the cession of Chelm (Kholm) to the Ukraine; the Poles threatened the rest of Austria with a boycott of food, and abstained from voting on the budget.

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  • The prevailing winds respond to the stronger poleward temperature gradients of winter by rising to a higher velocity and a more frequent and severer cyclonic storminess; and to the weaker gradients of summer by relaxing to a lower velocity with fewer and weaker cyclonic storms; but furthermore the northern zone occupied by the prevailing westerlies expands as the winds strengthen in winter, and shrinks as they weaken in summer; thus the stormy westerlies, which impinge upon the north-western coast and give it plentiful rainfall all through the year, in winter reach southern California and sweep across part of the Gulf of Mexico and Florida; it is for this reason that southern California has a rainy winter season, and that the states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico are visited in winter by occasional intensified cold winds, inappropriate to their latitude.

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  • On a stormy August night in 1689 150o Iroquois burst in on the village of Lachine near Montreal, butchered 200 of its people, and carried off more than loo to be tortured to death at their leisure.

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  • Reared in the nurture of the pope, the populace of the Tiber renounced its stormy liberty in 1209, and accepted the peace and order that a beneficent master gave; but when Innocent attempted to extend to the whole of Italy the regime of paternal subjection that had been so successful at Rome, the difficulties of the enterprise surpassed the powers even of a leader of religion.

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  • The winter of 428-427 was marked by the daring escape of half the Plataean garrison under cover of a stormy night, and by the capitulation of Mytilene, which was forced upon the oligarchic rulers by the democracy.

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  • He is closely akin to Glaucus Pontius, the frantic horses of the one probably representing the stormy waves, the other the sea in its calmer mood.

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  • Let 's hope Herbie does n't get rusty in stormy Manchester !

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  • Anthony and Craig's stormy relationship later boiled over again in the garden after Craig unsuccessfully tried to smooth things over.

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  • In fair or stormy weather, boys, John Riley 's just the same.

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  • On what stormy seas have you been tossed which have not also roared around His boat?

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  • Your vision helps me through the stormy nights sitting, hoping we get through the fights.

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  • Covered with heavy clouds, the stormy sky gave only the faintest light to the ocean 's upper strata.

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  • Suddenly there was a sound like a stormy wind.

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  • Here 's wishing you all a prosperous but extremely stormy New Year !

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  • But by then the weather had gotten too stormy, and Luna 's family was not around.

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  • Its stormy plot and hustling crowd scenes play directly to the uninhibited, spontaneous style that has always been BRB 's main strength.

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  • Industrial cylinder vacuum cleaners... free from stormy surge had industrial cylinder vacuum cleaners are numerous varieties door...

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  • During the stormy session, French had a waitress who was wearing a French maid 's uniform serve drinks to him.

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  • Their punishment consists in being forever whirled about in a dark, stormy wind.

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  • I am going to stay inside this weekend and avoid the stormy, boisterous weather.

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  • The Americana country style home also draws enormous inspiration from nature such as woolen blankets, birch fire logs, and stormy winter grey skies, sheer muslin, cool linens and golden summer sunbeams.

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  • She was also the subject of her daughter Christina's scathing book Mommie Dearest that chronicled the stormy and often violent relationship the two women shared.

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  • However, it's been stormy out this week, and she hasn't been out for a hard run in about five days.

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  • When Mr Bowles saw it in autumn it was so full of flower that it looked like a graceful spout of white spray, and as though it was trying to imitate some of the wonderful effects of the sea-wash on stormy days.

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  • The goggles are great for imaginative play and for stormy nights when the power goes out.

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  • Do not use the slide in high wind or stormy conditions.

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  • They are prone to sudden and extreme mood changes, stormy relationships, unpredictable and often self-destructive behavior.

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  • The early part of this stage can also include stormy tantrums, stubbornness, and negativism, depending on the child's temperament.

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  • With fragrance oils, you can have scents like apple pie, fresh linen, Christmas Eve, or stormy morning.

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  • Further, water can be calm and placid, or stormy and destructive.

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  • He has also had his art featured at Stormy Leather Retail in San Francisco, California.

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  • They only say that it is "Stormy Leather," so if you need more information, you have to contact them.

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  • One source of energy was darker than a stormy sky while another was as bright as the sun.

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  • His gaze was stormy, but there was more there, a profound sadness that made the large man more human.

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  • She hesitated, then propped her chin on his chest, gazing up at him with stormy, reddened eyes.

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  • Both were bristling with stormy energy that made her body tingle unpleasantly.

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  • The next fifteen years were for Maximilian a stormy and difficult period.

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  • Their canoes are simply hollowed out of trunks with the adze and in no other way, and it is the smaller ones which are outrigged; they do not last long and are not good sea-boats, and the story of raids on Car Nicobar, out of sight across a stormy and sea-rippled channel, must be discredited.

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  • The winters are stormy.

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  • Black bulls, symbolical of the stormy sea, were sacrificed to him, and often thrown alive into rivers; in Ionia and Thessaly bull-fights took place in his honour; at a festival of his at Ephesus the cupbearers were called.

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  • There was a stormy interview at York Place; but Pole succeeded in mollifying the king's rage so far that Henry told him to put into writing his reasons against the divorce.

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  • 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.

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  • In the south and east the weather is generally changeable, stormy and moist; whilst on the north the rainfall is less.

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  • For the most part the fishing is carried on from open boats, notwithstanding the dangers of so stormy a coast.

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  • Throughout these stormy years the prophet Jeremiah (q.v.) had realized that Judah's only hope lay in submission to Babylonia.

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  • His family appears to have been in good circumstances, but in the stormy reign of Henry III.

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  • The winter, which is very stormy, lasts from November to March; spring begins in April, but it is the middle of June before warmth becomes general, and by the end of August summer is gone.

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  • To these stormy periods we may safely assign the alterations which may be traced in the staircases, which a.re sometimes abruptly cut off, leaving a gap requiring a ladder, and the formation of secret passages communicating with the arenariae, and through them with the open country.

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  • But though his natural defects of intellect and will-power were not improved by the pedantic tutoring to which he was submitted, he grew up pious, honest and well-meaning; and had fate cast him in any but the most stormy times of his country's history he might well have left the reputation of a model king.

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  • In California the effect of the strong equatorward turn of the summer winds is to produce a dry season; but in the states along the Gulf of Mexico and especially in Florida the withdrawal of the stormy westerlies in favor of the steadier trade winds (here turned somewhat toward the continental interior, as explained below) results in an increase of precipitation.

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  • But even the final form of Jewish theology shows much vacillation as to these details, especially as regards their sequence and mutual relation, thus betraying the inadequacy of the harmonistic method by which they were derived from the Old Testament and the stormy excitement in which the Messianic idea was developed.

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  • The passions excited during the stormy epoch of the Reform Bill had long passed away.

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  • The inevitable crisis was delayed until the stormy year 1848, when the king probably saved his crown by hastily giving back the constitution of 1833.

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  • Darian struggled visibly, his gaze stormy and his frame shaking.

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  • Had he come over that stormy night while Alex was away with the intent of making Alex believe they were having an affair?

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  • Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from Vienna.

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