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  • They'd acted together, in the last of Adelia's garden theatricals — he'd been Ferdinand, she Miranda, in a bowdlerized version of The Tempest in which both sex and Caliban had been minimized.†   (source)
  • The airlock barely moved, leaving AL102 to take the full force of the tempest.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Its mane flickered as it circled around the empty pool, its hooves causing miniature thunderstorms—tempests—whenever they touched.†   (source)
  • THE PLAY—for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crêpe paper—was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch.†   (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)
  • As they watched, the tempest's wrath struck them like a hammer blow.†   (source)
  • —William Shakespeare, The Tempest It was almost midnight by the time Elinor finally saw her garden gate beside the road.†   (source)
  • Poor Will; do you know that he based the character of Prospero in The Tempest on Dee?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It might be a tempest in a teapot, but it might well be something *more.†   (source)
  • Thunder split the air and the lightning bursts illuminated the churning, frothy tempest.†   (source)
  • Paul took a deep breath, trying to still the tempest within him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He invented the name Miranda, you know, for The 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)
  • 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)
  • Barbara, a sweating tempest with hands on hips, looks around Cedric's room, just now noticing the change.†   (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)
  • A MIDNIGHT 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)
  • Though tempest bar and block the way—†   (source)
  • But it is as if there is a tempest in my mind, and I cannot see through the murk of it.†   (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)
  • It finds my own fierce longing for a family I once had but lost to tempests I could not control.†   (source)
  • The wind had increased to a tempest, and hurled great blazing brands over our heads.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST-TOST TO ME,
    I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!†   (source)
  • Tribulation wasn't just tempests, hurricanes, floods and fires like the things they had in the Bible.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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.†   (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.... "There!†   (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)
  • The middle one, Tempest, screamed, "Red light!"†   (source)
  • Her face was a tempest of guilt, misery, and bitterness.†   (source)
  • I stated that I'd had good luck teaching Tempest-Tost in the past.†   (source)
  • Well, if you'd give me the eye, Tempest, I could see that!" the driver complained.†   (source)
  • As the bizarre chase continued, Vittoria's thoughts whipped like a tempest.†   (source)
  • Tempest reared on his hind legs, arcing electricity across his hooves.†   (source)
  • Jason dismounted and told Tempest to stay put.†   (source)
  • Tempest dipped his head and trotted over to Leo.†   (source)
  • The spirit horse Tempest jumped into the pit and whinnied.†   (source)
  • Jason rode Tempest through the last ventus, breaking it into vapor.†   (source)
  • You're about as tempest-tossed as they come.†   (source)
  • In the eye of the tempest, the air was still.†   (source)
  • In his mind, a tempest roared: a whirlwind of flashing blades and severed limbs.†   (source)
  • I yelled, straining to make myself heard over the tempest.†   (source)
  • We settle like a flower garden after a sudden tempest of wind.†   (source)
  • "Lord Bacchus!" she interrupted, slipping off Tempest's back.†   (source)
  • After an hour or two they still had not sighted the far side of the tempest.†   (source)
  • These weren't dark and cold like Jason's friend Tempest.†   (source)
  • A tempest was a bad storm where things got banged around a lot.†   (source)
  • Tempest turned so quickly, Piper almost fell off.†   (source)
  • Tempest and Anion also hadn't shown themselves.†   (source)
  • "Tempest," Jason said, grinning broadly.†   (source)
  • Tempest raced down the road with Blackjack soaring overhead.†   (source)
  • Blackjack cantered away as Tempest reared in confusion.†   (source)
  • Piper had never been comfortable with Tempest.†   (source)
  • JUNE RECITAL Loch was in a tempest with his mother.†   (source)
  • Director Inoue Sato was a fearsome specimen—a bristly tempest of a woman who stood a mere four feet ten inches.†   (source)
  • Langdon sensed immediately that the commander was a man who had weathered tempests, his face hale and steeled.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • There is evidence to suggest that when Shakespeare created the character of Prospero for The Tempest, he modeled him on Dee.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare's The Tempest?†   (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)
  • Through the tempest of emotions now coursing through her blood, a single word tolled like a distant bell.†   (source)
  • Ariel in The Tempest?†   (source)
  • "No!" screamed Tempest from the middle.†   (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)
  • Only if Tempest gives me the eye!†   (source)
  • Tempest screeched.†   (source)
  • Tempest added.†   (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 said.†   (source)
  • Tempest?†   (source)
  • Tempest cried.†   (source)
  • Tempest said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • When I walked into Camp Four, six Sherpas were struggling to erect Hall's tents in a 50-knot tempest.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Tempest-tossed" was from the poem on the Statue of Liberty that started out, "Give me your tired, your poor."†   (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)
  • "Like my friend Tempest," he ventured.†   (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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Piper stumbled back from Tempest.†   (source)
  • Tempest was nowhere to be seen.†   (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)
  • According to the journal, there was, at this moment, "a tempest of feeling" in his breast.†   (source)
  • He had only to say: "Sugar, if I were you, I wouldn't—" and the tempest would break.†   (source)
  • I did not put it into words in such fashion, but I stood there shaken by a tempest of feeling.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Then was Babbitt caught up in the black tempest.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XV — A Tempest in the School Teapot†   (source)
  • Tempest of laughs, whistling cries, etc.) THE WHOLE HOUSE: Coward....come back!†   (source)
  • In this part of the field there passed slowly the intense moments that precede the tempest.†   (source)
  • He could not confront again the loneliness and the tempest.†   (source)
  • Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.†   (source)
  • By and by the tempest spent itself and died without accomplishing its object.†   (source)
  • While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step.†   (source)
  • Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest—worse than a tempest!†   (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)
  • Then I felt that my vessel was a vain refuge, that trembled and shook before the tempest.†   (source)
  • Chapter 1 For many days we had been tempest-tossed.†   (source)
  • It was not long before he found an opportunity, when they had passed to the music of "The Tempest."†   (source)
  • He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.†   (source)
  • Henrique is a regular little tempest;—his mother and I have given him up, long ago.†   (source)
  • There Jo was mistaken, for next day she made a discovery which produced a tempest.†   (source)
  • 'Welcome misery, welcome houselessness, welcome hunger, rags, tempest, and beggary!†   (source)
  • At length I gathered resolution to address him in a pause of the tempest of his passion.†   (source)
  • Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace.†   (source)
  • I shrieked, upstarting—
    "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!†   (source)
  • This it was, more than any thing else, that roused such a tempest in my soul.†   (source)
  • She was struck during a tempest of passion with a kind of fit.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    How raves the tempest through the air!†   (source)
  • This was all that remained of the tempest of the night.†   (source)
  • you face the tempests as well as Master Cap, and ought to know something of the feelings of storms.†   (source)
  • No doubt; even the tempest has put us on the right way.†   (source)
  • Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest—worse than a tempest!†   (source)
  • Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time.†   (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)
  • More than that, we shall have a tempest, or I don't know what's what.'†   (source)
  • I was unjustly arrested; I am innocent of this civil tempest.†   (source)
  • Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling.†   (source)
  • At night the tempest increased in violence.†   (source)
  • The tempest still raged with undiminished fury; but the wind now returned to the south-east.†   (source)
  • all that tempest, all that cloud, that war, then that peace?†   (source)
  • A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle.†   (source)
  • A tempest, more furious than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within him.†   (source)
  • Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, human irresponsibility is mingled with them.†   (source)
  • He concluded, as they always do, poor, dear old things, with the aspiration that all American women should one day be sexless—though that is not the way they put it.... Well, we made the ship all right by one-thirty—an there was a tempest blowing.†   (source)
  • And as honest and punctilious as she might ordinarily be in the matter of truth-telling and honest-dealing, plainly this was one of those whirling tempests of fact and reality in which the ordinary charts and compasses of moral measurement were for the time being of small use.†   (source)
  • Devil take the thing!" he added, in a tempest of despair, "it will all be burnt up in a minute—It's burning, it's burning!"†   (source)
  • The plague, the famine, the earthquake, the tempest were too spasmodic in their action; the tiger and crocodile were too easily satiated and not cruel enough: something more constantly, more ruthlessly, more ingeniously destructive was needed; and that something was Man, the inventor of the rack, the stake, the gallows, and the electrocutor; of the sword and gun; above all, of justice, duty, patriotism and all the other isms by which even those who are clever enough to be humanely disposed are persuaded to become the most destructive of all the destroyers.†   (source)
  • Here and there a military camp lost in a wilderness, like a needle in a bundle of hay—cold, fog, tempests, disease, exile, and death,—death skulking in the air, in the water, in the bush.†   (source)
  • Whenever I have heard the hymn since, it has made me remember that white waste and the little group of people; and the bluish air, full of fine, eddying snow, like long veils flying: 'While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high.'†   (source)
  • The powwow and racket were prodigious; it was a tempest of riot and confusion and thick-falling blows.†   (source)
  • The tempest rose higher and higher, and presently the sail tore loose from its fastenings and went winging away on the blast.†   (source)
  • They may add, too, that at Trafalgar it was in effect nothing less than a challenge to death; and death came; and that but for his bravado the victorious Admiral might possibly have survived the battle; and so, instead of having his sagacious dying injunctions overruled by his immediate successor in command, he himself, when the contest was decided, might have brought his shattered fleet to anchor, a proceeding which might have averted the deplorable loss of life by shipwreck in the elemental tempest that followed the martial one.†   (source)
  • If my mother happened to be near I crept into her arms, too miserable even to remember the cause of the tempest.†   (source)
  • Above stood the secular power of Mau—elephants, artillery, crowds—and high above them a wild tempest started, confined at first to the upper regions of the air.†   (source)
  • And when at last, thinking the driver had begun to grow suspicious, he discharged the cab and ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the midst of the nocturnal passengers, these two base passions raged within him like a tempest.†   (source)
  • She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.†   (source)
  • in place of those dreams of tempests, by which I had been entirely possessed, not wishing to see anything but waves dashing in from all sides, mounting always higher, upon the wildest of coasts, beside churches as rugged and precipitous as cliffs, in whose towers the sea-birds would be wailing; suddenly, effacing them, taking away all their charm, excluding them because they were it†   (source)
  • Then without warning the tempest broke.†   (source)
  • It was like coming suddenly upon some wild sight of nature—a mountain forest lashed by a tempest, a ship tossed about upon a stormy sea.†   (source)
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