All 5 Uses of
tempestuous
in
Moby Dick
- It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—"it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."†
Chpt 1-3
- Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon.†
Chpt 1-3
- I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years' dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.†
Chpt 22-24
- In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(tempestuous) strongly turbulent -- as of a storm or unstable emotions