tost

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Wind-tost, the riderless steeds of the sea.

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  • Our departure from the inauguration festivities was most definitely "tempest-tost," as the teeming National Mall broke loose - south toward the river, east toward Union Station, west toward the Hilltop. —  TheHoya.com
  • Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me ... on the other hand, don't. —  We Blog A Lot
  • Troubled and tempest-tost was each heart as it awakened scared by its own dreams, through which ran wild visions of the beloved faces, perhaps never more to be seen. —  Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island
  • And was "tost" the kind of toast you eat or the kind you drink? —  Mike Flannery On Duty and Off
  • His fleet had been tempest-tost, and he very naturally believed that the prince of the power of the air had been personally active on the occasion The principal person implicated in these heretical and treasonable undertakings was one Agnes Simpson, or Samson, called the Wise Wife of Keith, and described by Archbishop Spottiswood, not as one of the base or ignorant class of ordinary witches, but a grave matron, composed and deliberate in her answers, which were all to some purpose. —  Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
 

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