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  • adjective pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities

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Examples

  • The multitude swayed at first as if tempest-swept.

    Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian Various

  • The writer of the following pages never sought to sail beyond the peaceful and well-marked area of the first, until induced -- at the suggestions of his shipmates, though against his better judgment -- to venture on the dark and tempest-swept ocean of the second.

    In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

  • 'To-night may this island be tempest-swept, to-night may the host of Concobar be upon you, and then what shall befall this fair one?

    Celtic Tales, Told to the Children Louey Chisholm

  • Nor can it be fully told how he and his friends toiled forward across the plain, over that dreaded stretch of desert that came at the far edge of it, up the tempest-swept, snow-covered mountains, until that wondrous minute when the endless bleak slopes suddenly fell away before them and they looked down into the wide green wonder of a new land.

    The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

  • Nor can it be fully told how he and his friends toiled forward across the plain, over that dreaded stretch of desert that came at the far edge of it, up the tempest-swept, snow-covered mountains, until that wondrous minute when the endless bleak slopes suddenly fell away before them and they looked down into the wide green wonder of a new land.

    The Windy Hill 1922

  • And here, three years later, down from the snow-filled and tempest-swept passes of the

    American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

  • And here, three years later, down from the snow-filled and tempest-swept passes of the Rockies, came a party of starving and frost-bitten scarecrows, the exploring expedition headed by John Charles Fremont, of whom we shall speak presently.

    American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913

  • It was a savage and tempest-swept spot in which to pitch a tent, but there among the rocks shivered the minute canvas home of the shepherd, and close beside it, guarded by a lone dog, and lying like a thick-spread flock of rimy bowlders (almost unnoticeable in their silent immobility) huddled the sheep.

    Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Hamlin Garland 1900

  • Watching the tempest-swept valley, the tortured forest, where wild life was in panic, there came upon him the old impulse to put his thoughts into words, "and so be rid of them," as he was wont to say in other days.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Watching the tempest-swept valley, the tortured forest, where wild life was in panic, there came upon him the old impulse to put his thoughts into words, "and so be rid of them," as he was wont to say in other days.

    The Right of Way — Volume 04 Gilbert Parker 1897

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