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  • The airlock barely moved, leaving AL102 to take the full force of the tempest.†   (source)
  • You mean The Tempest?†   (source)
  • Its mane flickered as it circled around the empty pool, its hooves causing miniature thunderstorms—tempests—whenever they touched.†   (source)
  • As they watched, the tempest's wrath struck them like a hammer blow.†   (source)
  • A short way on either side of our village the road falls into a frenzy of hard dirt ruts that look like ocean waves frozen solid in the middle of a tempest.†   (source)
  • In 1982 Paul Mazursky directed an interesting modern version of The Tempest.†   (source)
  • -William Shakespeare, The Tempest It was almost midnight by the time Elinor finally saw her garden gate beside the road.†   (source)
  • Baby Kochamma, who had been put in charge of their formal education, had read them an abridged version of The Tempest by Charles and Mary Lamb.†   (source)
  • Poor Will; do you know that he based the character of Prospero in The Tempest on Dee?†   (source)
  • He invented the name Miranda, you know, for The Tempest.†   (source)
  • Paul took a deep breath, trying to still the tempest within him.†   (source)
  • The stillness was peaceful — not like the calm before the tempest, but like a clear night untouched by even the dream of a storm.†   (source)
  • They formed themselves into the League of the Divine Tempest and attacked an imperial garrison with swords aloft, having fasted for three days.†   (source)
  • It was his habit to walk to and from church every Sunday, and this he did, undeterred by tempests, boiling sun, or freezing weather.†   (source)
  • Those nights, as I wrote in silence, I could once again experience the sights and sounds of my youth in Qunu and Mqhekezweni; the excitement and fear of coming to Johannesburg; the tempests of the Youth League; the endless delays of the Treason Trial; the drama of Rivonia.†   (source)
  • It might be a tempest in a teapot, but it might well be something *more.†   (source)
  • Some might call it distorted reality, but it's exactly the place I need to be: no mom, Marie, ever more distant, in her midlife quest for fame no stepfather, Scott, stern and heavy-handed with unattainable expectations no big sister, Leigh, caught up in a tempest of uncertain sexuality no little brother, Jake, spoiled and shameless in his thievery of my niche.†   (source)
  • Great and magical Goddess of Night and of the full moon, she who rides through the thunder and the tempest, leading the spirits and the Elder Ones, beautiful and awesome one, who even those most ancient must obey, aid us in what we ask.†   (source)
  • Most cordially, Walter F. Tempest President, EZ Products I scooped out Styrofoam peanuts, piling them neatly next to the box, until I found the package inside.†   (source)
  • The wind had increased to a tempest, and hurled great blazing brands over our heads.†   (source)
  • Musharraf's aides proposed that, when the tempest died down, Pakistani officials accompany Mukhtar on a tightly chaperoned visit to the United States, where she would emphasize what a fine job the Pakistani government was doing.†   (source)
  • For him, Emma Lazarus's poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty summarized one of the things that made America great: GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR,
    YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE,
    THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE.
    SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST-TOST TO ME,
    I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!
    So Goins wasn't about to turn anyone away.†   (source)
  • Though tempest bar and block the way—†   (source)
  • Barbara, a sweating tempest with hands on hips, looks around Cedric's room, just now noticing the change.†   (source)
  • Thunder split the air and the lightning bursts illuminated the churning, frothy tempest.†   (source)
  • "I can as easily still the fierce tempests or stop the rapid thunderbolt, as command the motions and operations of my own mind," he lamented.†   (source)
  • But it is as if there is a tempest in my mind, and I cannot see through the murk of it.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes and folded her small brown hands, as though waiting for this storm in him to pass—but her serenity only fed the winds of his tempest.†   (source)
  • "Whose is it?" came to her over the dying winds of the tempest, but her ears were still ringing and she couldn't quite make out the sounds.†   (source)
  • Tribulation wasn't just tempests, hurricanes, floods and fires like the things they had in the Bible.†   (source)
  • Julian seized her frantically, wrapping his arms around her; she felt his fingers knot into the back of her shirt as they fell forward into the Portal and were swallowed up by the tempest.†   (source)
  • A MIDNIGHT TEMPEST.†   (source)
  • Then the Orcs screamed, waving spear and sword, and shooting a cloud of arrows at any that stood revealed upon the battlements; and the men of the Mark amazed looked out, as it seemed to them, upon a great field of dark corn, tossed by a tempest of war, and every ear glinted with barbed light.†   (source)
  • It finds my own fierce longing for a family I once had but lost to tempests I could not control.†   (source)
  • The God who allowed me to feel His presence--whether by the warmth that filled my belly like hot chocolate on a cold afternoon, or that voice, whenever I found myself in the tempest of life's storms, telling me (even when I was told I was "nothing") that I was something, that I was His, and that even amid the desertion of the man who gave me his name and his DNA and little else, I might find in Him sustenance.†   (source)
  • I think John Kwang would be a man to keep his boys close, keep May even closer, that he would collect the four of them in one shut-away room and have them sleep and eat and bathe all together until the tempests subsided.†   (source)
  • The wind became a tempest, the woods roared and creaked all round them.†   (source)
  • That neither tempest nor strife, nor fierce beasts, nor the loneliness of the desert, nor yet the illegitimate usurpers of our rightful estate, can deter our couriers.†   (source)
  • Nathan stood by the window, looking out at the sudden evening tempest, hands clasped behind him.†   (source)
  • BROWN (Deliberately shattering the rhythm, to go into a frenzied prayer, hands clasped together and lifted heavenvard) O Lord of the Tempest and the Thunder!†   (source)
  • We were tempest-tossed and storm-torn, as the poets say. or said.†   (source)
  • It was Isaiah also who had prophesied that a man should be as a hiding-place from the wind and tempest, Isaiah who had described the way of holiness, saying that the parched ground should become a pool, and the thirsty lands springs of water: the very desert should rejoice, and blossom as the rose.†   (source)
  • A great tempest of droning and flying seemed to have surrounded her as she ran, and she seemed not to have moved without putting her hand out after something that flew ahead… .†   (source)
  • it was only a tempest in a teapot
  • Shakespeare's The Tempest features a storm created by the character, Prospero.
  • The middle one, Tempest, screamed, "Red light!"†   (source)
  • When I walked into Camp Four, six Sherpas were struggling to erect Hall's tents in a 50knot tempest.†   (source)
  • Her face was a tempest of guilt, misery, and bitterness.†   (source)
  • As the bizarre chase continued, Vittoria's thoughts whipped like a tempest.†   (source)
  • Saunière closed his eyes, his thoughts a swirling tempest of fear and regret.†   (source)
  • Well, if you'd give me the eye, Tempest, I could see that!" the driver complained.†   (source)
  • Good thing I had The Tempest at school this year, isn't it, Charles?†   (source)
  • I yelled, straining to make myself heard over the tempest.†   (source)
  • Tempest reared on his hind legs, arcing electricity across his hooves.†   (source)
  • All eighteen of them are playing Tempest right now, just like you.†   (source)
  • Tonight, under the sky, she asked me, "Why do all the ones about me have quotes from The Tempest?†   (source)
  • "Guys, I haven't played Tempest in years," I said.†   (source)
  • Jason dismounted and told Tempest to stay put.†   (source)
  • Tempest dipped his head and trotted over to Leo.†   (source)
  • You had to know Tempest was going to factor into the Third Gate somehow.†   (source)
  • "Fifteen of them are still playing Tempest," I heard Aech reply.†   (source)
  • The spirit horse Tempest jumped into the pit and whinnied.†   (source)
  • Jason rode Tempest through the last ventus, breaking it into vapor.†   (source)
  • "That means this is the very first version of Tempest," Art3mis said.†   (source)
  • You mean to tell me that the entire world has been watching me play Tempest for the past hour?†   (source)
  • That quote was taken from Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest."†   (source)
  • In his mind, a tempest roared: a whirlwind of flashing blades and severed limbs.†   (source)
  • In the eye of the tempest, the air was still.†   (source)
  • You're about as tempest-tossed as they come.†   (source)
  • Tempest and Anion also hadn't shown themselves.†   (source)
  • A tempest was a bad storm where things got banged around a lot.†   (source)
  • These weren't dark and cold like Jason's friend Tempest.†   (source)
  • After an hour or two they still had not sighted the far side of the tempest.†   (source)
  • We settle like a flower garden after a sudden tempest of wind.†   (source)
  • Tempest turned so quickly, Piper almost fell off.†   (source)
  • Tempest raced down the road with Blackjack soaring overhead.†   (source)
  • Piper had never been comfortable with Tempest.†   (source)
  • "Lord Bacchus!" she interrupted, slipping off Tempest's back.†   (source)
  • "Tempest," Jason said, grinning broadly.†   (source)
  • Blackjack cantered away as Tempest reared in confusion.†   (source)
  • JUNE RECITAL Loch was in a tempest with his mother.†   (source)
  • C#17 CHAPTER 17 Director Inoue Sato was a fearsome specimen—a bristly tempest of a woman who stood a mere four feet ten inches.†   (source)
  • But when I went outside to pump the first pail of water, there was all the laundry I had done the day before, blown into the trees by the tempest during the night.†   (source)
  • Langdon sensed immediately that the commander was a man who had weathered tempests, his face hale and steeled.†   (source)
  • Tempest.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare's The Tempest?†   (source)
  • The sports pages of the Los Angeles Times and Examiner were striped with stories on the prodigy, whom the Times called the "Torrance Tempest" and practically everyone else called the "Torrance Tornado."†   (source)
  • She even quarreled with my choice of teaching Tempest-Tost; she suggested that perhaps it was because I failed to recognize that Fifth Business was "better."†   (source)
  • There is evidence to suggest that when Shakespeare created the character of Prospero for The Tempest, he modeled him on Dee.†   (source)
  • He reads to the Sadus of the Trial and this is what he reads; "Mine enemies are like green blades eaten down That did stand in the path of the tempest.†   (source)
  • Through the tempest of emotions now coursing through her blood, a single word tolled like a distant bell.†   (source)
  • It was only after reading every journal entry that I noticed the ones about me began with quotes from The Tempest.†   (source)
  • Then he collected Scott's camera, ice ax, and favorite pocketknife-which Beidleman would later give to Scott's nineyear-old son in Seattle-and descended into the tempest.†   (source)
  • The three sisters were fighting for real now, slapping each other as Anger tried to grab at Wasp's face and Wasp tried to grab at Tempest's.†   (source)
  • Ariel in The Tempest?†   (source)
  • The Tempest.†   (source)
  • By 6:00 Pm as the storm escalated into a full-scale blizzard with driving snow and winds gusting in excess of 60 knots, I came upon the rope that had been fixed by the Montenegrins on the snow slope 600 feet above the Col. Sobered by the force of the rising tempest, I realized that I'd gotten down the trickiest ground just in the nick of time.†   (source)
  • It's just like The Tempest, and okay, I'm going to leave you now so you can live happily ever after."†   (source)
  • "No!" screamed Tempest from the middle.†   (source)
  • Only if Tempest gives me the eye!†   (source)
  • Tempest screeched.†   (source)
  • Tempest said.†   (source)
  • Tempest was a strong spirit, and every time he plowed through one of his brethren, he discharged so much electricity, the other spirit vaporized into a harmless cloud of mist.†   (source)
  • Tempest?†   (source)
  • Tempest said.†   (source)
  • Halliday had put this Tempest machine on Tournament settings, so I couldn't start the game any higher than level nine.†   (source)
  • Tempest cried.†   (source)
  • When Tempest first hit the arcades, kids discovered that if you died with a certain score, the machine would give you a bunch of free credits.†   (source)
  • Tempest added.†   (source)
  • "The game Tempest also appears briefly in the music video for the song 'Subdivisions' by Rush," she added.†   (source)
  • Tempest used old-school vector graphics, so the game's images were created from glowing neon lines drawn against a pitch-black screen.†   (source)
  • The creator of Tempest, Dave Theurer, originally got the idea for the game from a nightmare he had about monsters crawling up out of a hole in the ground and chasing after him.†   (source)
  • Yet here they were, caught in a freak tempest, their yacht being thrown about like the toy in Aubrey's lap.†   (source)
  • The play is The Tempest.†   (source)
  • Piper knew what he was doing, but he'd succeeded in summoning Tempest only three times since they'd met the storm spirit at the Wolf House last winter.†   (source)
  • Blankets flapped over him as a tempest clawed at his room, hurling his possessions into the air and knocking the lanterns against the walls.†   (source)
  • While they fought, Eragon lay on his back with his eyes closed, all of his energies concentrated inward on the tempest that raged between him and Glaedr.†   (source)
  • He had just been preparing the villagers to repel boarding parties when the clouds above ripened to a bruised purple, heavy with rain, and a ravening tempest blew in from the northwest.†   (source)
  • Aven explained that while their short stature made them rather disagreeable, their inborn ability—from the goat half of their heritage, John had no doubt—to scale mountainous terrain also came in handy on a tempest-tossed deck.†   (source)
  • She is one of Prospero's attendant spirits in The Tempest, and has to wear a body stocking, with a gauzy costume over top, sprinkled with dried leaves and spangles.†   (source)
  • As they drew nearer they became aware that these were of vast size, very ancient it seemed, and still towering high, though their tops were gaunt and broken, as if tempest and lightning-blast had swept across them, but had failed to kill them or to shake their fathomless roots.†   (source)
  • He has first-name relationships, sometimes admiring, sometimes acrid, with Oprah, his favorite, and also with Montel, Sally, Jenny, Richard, Gordon, Jerry, Tempest, and Ricki, whom he now flips to.†   (source)
  • "The reign of Mr. Adams," said Callender, "has hitherto been one continued tempest of malignant passions."†   (source)
  • The traitorous Humanities instructor sat unblinking in his A MIDNIGHT TEMPEST — 425 chair while a baka clung to the white, tangled beard that had grown during his imprisonment.†   (source)
  • "Like my friend Tempest," he ventured.†   (source)
  • "Tempest-tossed" was from the poem on the Statue of Liberty that started out, "Give me your tired, your poor."†   (source)
  • Responding to Jefferson's figurative storm at sea, Adams recalled again his own real voyage on the Boston, chased by British frigates, struck by "a hideous tempest of thunder and lightning," the mainmast split, twenty men down, one dead.†   (source)
  • "Their draft be deeper than that of an inland scow," explained Clovis, "so you needn't fear them capsizing in rough weather, though you'd do well to avoid being caught in a real tempest.†   (source)
  • Freezing water crashed over the side to drench the two as Max crawled toward the ship's figurehead, squinting as snow and bits of ice whipped against his face in a sudden tempest.†   (source)
  • Artus looked over the lines a final time, then closed the book and began to recite: By right and rule For need of might I call on thee I call on thee By blood bound By honor given I call on thee I call on thee For life and light your protection given From within this ring by the power of Heaven I call on thee I call on thee With the last word, the tempest around them suddenly began to fade.†   (source)
  • The elves and the dragons who were present lent him the strength of their bodies, and the energy from them coursed through him like a great whirling tempest.†   (source)
  • Jason and Percy charged each other, but Tempest and Blackjack balked long enough for Piper to leap out of the way.†   (source)
  • The horses pulled away from each other—Tempest thundering in protest, Blackjack flapping his wings.†   (source)
  • Tempest was nowhere to be seen.†   (source)
  • Piper stumbled back from Tempest.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, recalling how on that Sunday following a similar "tempest" he had made overtures of friendship so warm and eager as to be almost embarrassing, and had actually apologized to me for his misbehavior, it occurred to me that he might welcome any gestures of pacification I would make.†   (source)
  • And the tempest was over, the thunderclouds had rolled away, and the sunniest good humor flooded into the color-splashed room, where the curtains made a tap-tapping sound upon a sudden gusty breeze from the park.†   (source)
  • Tempests will sweep over the earth, and toward the conclusion of the period these will increase.†   (source)
  • He had only to say: "Sugar, if I were you, I wouldn't—" and the tempest would break.†   (source)
  • If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death.†   (source)
  • According to the journal, there was, at this moment, "a tempest of feeling" in his breast.†   (source)
  • I did not put it into words in such fashion, but I stood there shaken by a tempest of feeling.†   (source)
  • And there would fall between them sometimes long rigid silences, when, in a state of mind which annoyed Lily in her, half plaintive, half resentful, she seemed unable to surmount the tempest calmly, or to laugh as they laughed, but in her weariness perhaps concealed something.†   (source)
  • The storm, lashing his body into convulsive movement, lit it up with ever rarer flashes, and in the heart of the tempest he was slowly drifting, derelict.†   (source)
  • And exactly the same is true of "all the other extolled dramas of Shakespeare, not to mention the senseless dramatized tales, PERICLES, TWELFTH NIGHT, THE TEMPEST, CYMBELINE, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA."†   (source)
  • Then, what do you think, King Conor of Ireland ran back into his palace for to seek his sword in righteous passion, and he ran out with it throughout the tempest to defend his Saviour— and that was how he died.†   (source)
  • I hated these emotional outbursts, these tempests of passion, for they always left me tense and weak.†   (source)
  • In short, his aim is to make a home for himself between two extremes in a temperate zone without violent storms and tempests; and in this he succeeds though it be at the cost of that intensity of life and feeling which an extreme life affords.†   (source)
  • Then a storm arose in fury, From the East a mighty tempest, And the sea was wildly foaming, And the waves dashed ever higher.†   (source)
  • "I consider this whole affair a tempest in a teapot," said Scarlett coldly, rattling her papers to indicate that as far as she was concerned the discussion was finished.†   (source)
  • Guenever, and this might have been surprising to a person who had known her in her days of tempest, looked sweet and pretty.†   (source)
  • The descending series will terminate and the "ascending" series (utsarpini) begin, when the tempest and desolation will have reached the point of the unendurable.†   (source)
  • "Fiddle-dee-dee, Melly, what a tempest you make in a teapot," said Scarlett grudgingly, but she did not throw off the hand that stole around her waist.†   (source)
  • Thus the tempest rocked the virgin,256 And the billows drove the maiden, O'er the ocean's azure surface, On the crest of foaming billows, Till the wind that blew around her, And the sea woke life within her.'†   (source)
  • He could not confront again the loneliness and the tempest.†   (source)
  • Tempest of laughs, whistling cries, etc.) THE WHOLE HOUSE: Coward….come back!†   (source)
  • Then was Babbitt caught up in the black tempest.†   (source)
  • Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.†   (source)
  • In this part of the field there passed slowly the intense moments that precede the tempest.†   (source)
  • Well, we made the ship all right by one-thirty—an there was a tempest blowing.†   (source)
  • By and by the tempest spent itself and died without accomplishing its object.†   (source)
  • Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest.†   (source)
  • Sun elated them; quiet rain sobered them; weeks of watery tempest stupefied them.†   (source)
  • He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.†   (source)
  • While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step.†   (source)
  • There Jo was mistaken, for next day she made a discovery which produced a tempest.†   (source)
  • Chapter 1 For many days we had been tempest-tossed.†   (source)
  • Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest—worse than a tempest!†   (source)
  • Henrique is a regular little tempest;—his mother and I have given him up, long ago.†   (source)
  • It was not long before he found an opportunity, when they had passed to the music of "The Tempest."†   (source)
  • Then I felt that my vessel was a vain refuge, that trembled and shook before the tempest.†   (source)
  • At length I gathered resolution to address him in a pause of the tempest of his passion.†   (source)
  • 'Welcome misery, welcome houselessness, welcome hunger, rags, tempest, and beggary!†   (source)
  • She was struck during a tempest of passion with a kind of fit.†   (source)
  • FAUST How raves the tempest through the air!†   (source)
  • I shrieked, upstarting— "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!†   (source)
  • No doubt; even the tempest has put us on the right way.†   (source)
  • This was all that remained of the tempest of the night.†   (source)
  • Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace.†   (source)
  • More than that, we shall have a tempest, or I don't know what's what.'†   (source)
  • Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time.†   (source)
  • At night the tempest increased in violence.†   (source)
  • This it was, more than any thing else, that roused such a tempest in my soul.†   (source)
  • Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest—worse than a tempest!†   (source)
  • There was now a pause in the struggle, which resembled a lull in a tempest.†   (source)
  • The tempest had been as brief as terrific.†   (source)
  • I was unjustly arrested; I am innocent of this civil tempest.†   (source)
  • Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling.†   (source)
  • The tempest still raged with undiminished fury; but the wind now returned to the south-east.†   (source)
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