| The heavy tempests shook the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, its former military glory and pride crumbling into the depths of mere fantasies. |
| It will in all probability become a place of the first consequence, notwithstanding the insalubrity of its climate, and the dreadful tempests it is subject to in winter. |
| Several boats laden with supplies bound from frontenac to Niagara were lost in tempests on the lake. |
| Sandstorms are hardly novel in Beijing, but the sheer ferocity of these tempests was. |
| The unfortunate steamer was caught in one of these tempests, and driven on a reef off Socotra Island. |
| May you survive the tempests that you are tempting, angering that the ungodly tribe of fibbers, exaggerators and outrageous abusers of power to bludgeon the real number. |
