tempest

• He added, to the request he made, a statement that a tempest was at hand which he did not like to meet in the offing. —  The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
• In after-years he would often say, "No wonder that one ushered into the world amid such a tempest should be the victim of stormy passions." —  Robert Burns
• If you want to make the harbour, keep the harbour lights always clear before you, or you will go yawing about, and washing here and there, in the trough of the wave, and the tempest will be your master. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
• Did you not name a tempest, a birth, and death?" —  Tales from Shakespeare
• The story runs that Lodebrock, king of Denmark, having been alone in a boat, was driven by a tempest from the Danish coast to the Yare, in Suffolk. —  The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales

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