Both Uses
tempest
in
Wuthering Heights
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- Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I don't think they moved one second faster than usual, though the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping.†
p. 4.5 *
- She was struck during a tempest of passion with a kind of fit.†
p. 94.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(tempest) a violent commotion or disturbance -- especially a violent storm or emotional outburstThe expression tempest in a teapot describes people as being upset over an unimportant matter.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)