All 3 Uses of
tumult
in
Heart of Darkness
- Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, 'When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages—hate them to the death.'†
Chpt 1 *
- I don't know how it struck the others: to me it seemed as though the mist itself had screamed, so suddenly, and apparently from all sides at once, did this tumultuous and mournful uproar arise.†
Chpt 2
- The tumult of angry and warlike yells was checked instantly, and then from the depths of the woods went out such a tremulous and prolonged wail of mournful fear and utter despair as may be imagined to follow the flight of the last hope from the earth.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(tumult as in: tumult in financial markets) confusion or disorder -- often noisy