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Sentence Examples
Bethel further said that it was a tempest in a teapot that would blow over.
In reality, the firestorm of publicity engulfing Gaughan was nothing more than a tempest in a teapot.
If it is not covered, the boat will founder in this tempest, and the ocean will summarily swallow the sailors and their dream.
I hated this room, the atmosphere of backstabbing intrigue and devious plots and politics that hung overhead like a forthcoming tempest.
Their verse has not the rushing speed that could pace that tempest, it has not the teeming life that would pacify the wood.
This is a pretty transparent attempt to parrot the administration line that this is nothing more than another beltway tempest in a teapot.
In some strophes of the poem I tried to depict the tempest, followed by the calm of the sea.
It was distant, full of the fury of a tempest on the sea, but it was Carmel's voice speaking through to him.
The heavens cry and moan as the wind's rage stirs up the burning tempest of the sky, tears are unleashed from the firmament, cold and tasteless.
He enjoys the experience of being in the center of the windstorm for it is the only calm part of the tempest.
Back on the streets of Edinburgh, she bids a cheery farewell, braces her brolly against the raging tempest, and heads for the shops.
The weather seemed to be a pretense for a storm, windy and hinting toward a tempest.
There wasn't any thunder or lightning, just rain, but it was quite a tempest nonetheless.
The first thing I noticed as we approached the front door was that outside seemed to be caught up in a violent tempest.
His mind had been too occupied to notice the raging tempest that was taking place up deck.
News of the unusual discovery is stirring up a tempest among scientists, who are studying the storm to find out how it formed.
Abruptly following, a hoard of men appeared on the ridge, and with a howl like a raging tempest, chaos erupted.
Clapping gave way in an instant to the booming thunder as all turned from the singer to behold the tempest in the sky.
The wind was now practically a tornado, leaves and twigs caught up in its ever-circling tempest.
Calm seas and easy winds do not test a ship's worthiness, but it is the tempest and the hurricane that show her true metal.
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Inside the sounds of the growing tempest were muffled, but the echo of the wind racking against the rusted metal was not.
A more valid criticism, perhaps, is that the report is a tempest in a teapot.
A review of the registration process might prove whether this is a tempest in a teapot.
Out on the course between tempest squalls, he regaled his boyos with tales of a famous timber gee-gee.
The dispute here is a tempest in a teapot created by impoverished healthcare budgets that make the above steps unaffordable.
I find the discussions interesting, but it is a tempest in a teapot, ultimately irrevelant.
To some in this small town, it's a tempest in a teapot that smacks of partisan politics.
And as dorky as it may seem to take out a cheat sheet in the middle of a tempest, I find myself tempted to make up a set of cards to keep in my pocket.
I perceive a flock of snow-birds, skimming lightsomely through the tempest, and flitting from drift to drift, as sportively as swallows in the delightful prime of summer.
In truth, this whole point seems like a tempest in a teapot.
Unfurled in baleful grandeur, like some dark cloud of heaven, surcharged with thunder and the brewing tempest, it rides the air, and bedims the beams of day.
It would be easy to dismiss the fuss as a tempest in a teapot or so much inside baseball.
The first grey pencillings of dawn would raise a tempest which would shake two hemispheres.
Its gentle whistle sounds like a tempest tumbling madly through a turbo.
Can we take the recent bargain sale of hard-bound editions at hugely reduced rates as a signal heralding the impending tempest befalling the book market?
Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft there!
The media frenzy over the actor's drunken behavior was a tempest in a teapot.
As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.
The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskilful words of the passenger.
How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!
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More than a tempest in a teapot, a most uncivil war is brewing.
And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
At midnight, a tempest broke out, and Andriel had to threaten his own crew at gunpoint and award three bottles of rum to the first man to spot the French coast.
As a tempest influences the sluggish waters of the deadest mere.
The keys of the piano roll like an ocean swell, violin, trumpet and trip wire guitar fight for air against double bubble drumming tempest and fury.
Examples from Classical Literature
But this time it was in no Hyperborean tempest that we were called forth, but when the very sweetest airs of June were blowing.
There might be a pension for paralytics, and state aid for those who suffered in person or estate from tempest or wild beasts.
The tempest had doubtless frightened them away to the suaver southland, from which they did not return until the following spring.
In that riot of tempest and ruck of sea he was straining his eyes, trying to get a glimpse of the hulk on razee.
They could hear the tempest raging in jacamar Wood, which would surely suffer from it.
He dwelt in a two-story house so weatherproof that, for him, the tempest remained an external matter.
The Maruts, the sons of red Rudra, were the spirits of tempest and thunder.
Something in her nature, fierce and untamed, leaped forth to meet the tempest.
A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
The ships are overtaken by a tempest, and it becomes necessary to propitiate the wrath of the sea king.
Say, whence is the voice that when anger is burning, bids the whirl of the tempest to cease?
A beautiful evening followed the tempest gust, and the Lincolns and the old Tunker sat down to a humble meal.
But there is an understratum of deep, calm sea, which the breath of the wildest tempest can never reach.
In Montego Bay, and indeed throughout the island, the consequences of the tempest were equally disastrous.
This was a realm of unrest and tempest, which the devils claimed as belonging to themselves.
It was an unseasonable tempest, scarcely to be looked for at that time of year.
Indeed, they did not seem to be at all affected by this prolonged and unseasonable tempest.
The star that guides it is our guide, and in the tempest that menaces we behold our own doom!
There were forebodings, also, of a more fearful tempest than those of the elements.
So great was the tempest that the children of Lir were separated by the waves.
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It is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour.
It was at Dresden, 1903, that the revisionist tempest reached its height in the party teapot.
It was a caretaking like the sudden stilling of the tempest that came to the little household.
He had the charity to give me his guidance from the Sands, and a night's harbourage from the tempest.
Above her head was the roar of tempest, and the vivid, hellish light of the storm.
His voice came from the surge of battle, like the cheer of a sailor who recks not for the tempest.
While the black trees shuddered outside in the tempest, Ladin next told a story I shall never forget.
The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw.
There had been no abatement in the ferocity of the tempest, nor was there indication of any.
By and by the tempest spent itself and died without accomplishing its object.
The tempest rose higher and higher, and presently the sail tore loose from its fastenings and went winging away on the blast.
De Montfort, who was residing there, came to meet Henry, with all due respect, observing, 'What do you fear, now, Sire, the tempest has passed?
Now, says Bunyan, there remained only the hinder part of the tempest.
If he scape this age, he has scaped a tempest, and may live to be a man.
By that time the sounds of the tempest had become a lullaby to me.
The tempest suppressed his voice, as it had put out the fire.
He looked like a harbinger of tempest, a shipmate of the flying Dutchman.
She arose, calmly, as if no tempest had shaken and threatened her existence but yesterday.
Happy for those who, like Gracchus, foresaw the tempest and fled.
This last speech of slipslop raised a tempest in the mind of her mistress.
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There Jo was mistaken, for next day she made a discovery which produced a tempest.
Upon him and his mother lay the sultriness of a brewing tempest.
I had hoisted myself up, and made myself fast also, dividing my admiration between the tempest and this extraordinary man who was coping with it.
A sort of tempest arose on the 3rd of November, the squall knocking the vessel about with fury, and the waves running high.
The moaning of waves, the noise of thunder, the roaring of a volcano, cannot be compared with the tempest of cries heard at that moment.
Amid this vertiginous tempest of tones Debora danced the Dance of Space.
Their principal god was Wodan, or Odin, god of the sun and the tempest.
From the zephyr to the tempest, the whole scale is equally at his command.
The huge folio sign that swung without, exposed to the fury of the tempest, creaked ominously, and gave out a moaning sound from its stanchions of solid oak.
Now, when all was tempest and high-running waves, she knew of a land where the sun shone clear upon Italian grammars and files of docketed papers.
While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high.
This tempest and tribulation lasted about two hours, at the end of which he was left, not like his master, but so weak and exhausted that he could not stand.
While riding over one of the cleared eminencies that occurred in their route, the watchful eye of Judge Temple pointed out to his daughter the approach of a tempest.
Ariel is a whirlwind of African body art, the spirts who conjure up illusions are huge African totems and even the tempest takes on the form of a creature as a giant serpent.
They are they which, in the tempest of December 23rd, 1864, after destroying the town of Yeddo, in Japan, broke the same day on the shores of America.
