All 5 Uses of
tumult
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.†
Chpt 1
- And what was it that had suggested the tremendous tumult?†
Chpt 3 *
- My human fixture and her satellites rushed to welcome me; exclaiming, tumultuously, they had completely given me up: everybody conjectured that I perished last night; and they were wondering how they must set about the search for my remains.†
Chpt 3
- Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?†
Chpt 12
- 'And yet,' I interrupted, 'you have no scruples in completely ruining all hopes of her perfect restoration, by thrusting yourself into her remembrance now, when she has nearly forgotten you, and involving her in a new tumult of discord and distress.'†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(tumult as in: tumult in financial markets) confusion or disorder -- often noisy