Both Uses
tempest
in
Gulliver's Travels
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- I pulled off my shoes and stockings, and, wailing two or three hundred yards, I found the object to approach nearer by force of the tide; and then plainly saw it to be a real boat, which I supposed might by some tempest have been driven from a ship.†
Chpt 1 *
- It was nothing but a rock, with one creek naturally arched by the force of tempests.†
Chpt 4
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)