All 13 Uses
tumult
in
The Island of Dr. Moreau
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- The chanting died down, giving place to a clamour; then it began again, and suddenly broke into a tumult.
Chpt 19 *tumult = loud, confusing noise from an unrestrained crowd
- IN the early morning (it was the second morning after my recovery, and I believe the fourth after I was picked up), I awoke through an avenue of tumultuous dreams,—dreams of guns and howling mobs,—and became sensible of a hoarse shouting above me.†
Chpt 5
- The white-haired man stood, holding in a tumult of six dogs, and bawling orders over their din.†
Chpt 6
- The question shot like lightning across a tumultuous sky; and suddenly the clouded horror of my mind condensed into a vivid realisation of my own danger.†
Chpt 10
- We were making such a noise that I noticed nothing of a tumult outside, until some one, who I think was one of the two Swine Men I had seen, thrust his head over the little pink sloth-creature and shouted something excitedly, something that I did not catch.†
Chpt 12
- I heard the tumult of my pursuers in the gap up the slope, then the crashing of the reeds, and every now and then the crackling crash of a branch.†
Chpt 12
- Now and then a faint quiver of earthquake would be sensible, and sometimes the ascent of the spire of smoke would be rendered tumultuous by gusts of steam; but that was all.†
Chpt 15
- I heard the crack of Moreau's pistol, and saw the pink flash dart across the tumult.†
Chpt 16
- In another second I was running, one of a tumultuous shouting crowd, in pursuit of the escaping Leopard-man.†
Chpt 16
- And with these six creatures guiding us, we went through the tumult of ferns and creepers and tree-stems towards the northwest.†
Chpt 18 *
- I heard a yelling from many throats, a tumult of exultant cries passing down towards the beach, whooping and howling, and excited shrieks that seemed to come to a stop near the water's edge.†
Chpt 19
- Against the warm dawn great tumultuous masses of black smoke were boiling up out of the enclosure, and through their stormy darkness shot flickering threads of blood-red flame.†
Chpt 19
- He was dead; and even as he died a line of white heat, the limb of the sun, rose eastward beyond the projection of the bay, splashing its radiance across the sky and turning the dark sea into a weltering tumult of dazzling light.†
Chpt 19
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)