All 27 Uses
tumult
in
The War of the Worlds
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- I splashed through the tumultuous water,
Chpt 1.12 *tumultuous = turbulent (confused and disordered)
- The case appeared to be enormously thick, and it was possible that the faint sounds we heard represented a noisy tumult in the interior.†
Chpt 1.3
- The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth—above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes—were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.†
Chpt 1.4
- Over the Maybury arch a train, a billowing tumult of white, firelit smoke, and a long caterpillar of lighted windows, went flying south—clatter, clatter, clap, rap, and it had gone.†
Chpt 1.7
- I slashed the horse with the whip, and gave him a loose rein until Woking and Send lay between us and that quivering tumult.†
Chpt 1.9
- A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder.†
Chpt 1.10
- Nothing was burning on the hillside, though from the common there still came a red glare and a rolling tumult of ruddy smoke beating up against the drenching hail.†
Chpt 1.10
- Byfleet was in a tumult; people packing, and a score of hussars, some of them dismounted, some on horseback, were hunting them about.†
Chpt 1.12
- Thick clouds of steam were pouring off the wreckage, and through the tumultuously whirling wisps I could see, intermittently and vaguely, the gigantic limbs churning the water and flinging a splash and spray of mud and froth into the air.†
Chpt 1.12
- The water was in a tumult about me, and rapidly growing hotter.†
Chpt 1.12
- They had passed by me, and two were stooping over the frothing, tumultuous ruins of their comrade.†
Chpt 1.12
- The bells of the neighbouring church made a jangling tumult, a cart carelessly driven smashed, amid shrieks and curses, against the water trough up the street.†
Chpt 1.14
- A distant tumult of shouting began and ceased.†
Chpt 1.15
- It was heavy, this vapour, heavier than the densest smoke, so that, after the first tumultuous uprush and outflow of its impact, it sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and watercourses even as I have heard the carbonic-acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.†
Chpt 1.15
- Once the tumultuous upheaval of its dispersion was over, the black smoke clung so closely to the ground, even before its precipitation, that fifty feet up in the air, on the roofs and upper stories of high houses and on great trees, there was a chance of escaping its poison altogether, as was proved even that night at Street Cobham and Ditton.†
Chpt 1.15
- So you understand the roaring wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world just as Monday was dawning—the stream of flight rising swiftly to a torrent, lashing in a foaming tumult round the railway stations, banked up into a horrible struggle about the shipping in the Thames, and hurrying by every available channel northward and eastward.†
Chpt 1.16
- And as they advanced towards Barnet a tumultuous murmuring grew stronger.†
Chpt 1.16
- The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.†
Chpt 1.16 *
- So much as they could see of the road Londonward between the houses to the right was a tumultuous stream of dirty, hurrying people, pent in between the villas on either side; the black heads, the crowded forms, grew into distinctness as they rushed towards the corner, hurried past, and merged their individuality again in a receding multitude that was swallowed up at last in a cloud of dust.†
Chpt 1.16
- Edgware had been a scene of confusion, Chalk Farm a riotous tumult, but this was a whole population in movement.†
Chpt 1.16
- A tumult up the road, a quarrel for a place in a waggon, sent the whole host of them quickening their pace; even a man so scared and broken that his knees bent under him was galvanised for a moment into renewed activity.†
Chpt 1.16
- For, surging out beyond the white tumult, drove something long and black, the flames streaming from its middle parts, its ventilators and funnels spouting fire.†
Chpt 1.17
- A boiling tumult of steam hid everything again.†
Chpt 1.17
- In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise from that difference among men.†
Chpt 2.2
- The red weed grew tumultuously in their roofless rooms.†
Chpt 2.5
- The red weed was tumultuous at that time, and nearly choked the bridge roadway; but its fronds were already whitened in patches by the spreading disease that presently removed it so swiftly.†
Chpt 2.8
- And strange, too, it is to stand on Primrose Hill, as I did but a day before writing this last chapter, to see the great province of houses, dim and blue through the haze of the smoke and mist, vanishing at last into the vague lower sky, to see the people walking to and fro among the flower beds on the hill, to see the sight-seers about the Martian machine that stands there still, to hear the tumult of playing children, and to recall the time when I saw it all bright and clear-cut, hard and silent, under the dawn of that last great day.... And strangest of all is it to hold my wife's hand again, and to think that I have counted her, and that she has counted me, among the dead.†
Chpt 2.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(tumult as in: couldn't hear over the tumult) loud noise -- usually created by an unrestrained crowd or some kind of confusion
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(2)
(tumult as in: tumult in financial markets) confusion or disorder
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)