cloud-compeller

'My child,' protested Zeus, the cloud-compeller, 'what sharp judgements you let slip between your teeth …'

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

Professor Morse sets up his telegraph, and mightier than Jupiter, the cloud-compeller, with the lightnings of Heaven flashes intelligence from

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

On the other hand, those who appreciated his genius called him "a cloud-compeller of the world of music."

The True Citizen, How to Become One W. F. Markwick

But when the cloud-compeller, her bolts laid aside, resorted to tears, mutinous humanity had a right to feel aggrieved, and placed in a false and difficult position.

The Golden Age 1915

He was evidently a true cloud-compeller, this horrible George.

Seventeen 1915

Kephalegeretes, a play on Nephelegeretes, the cloud-compeller [back]

Pericles Plutarch 1909

He was evidently a true cloud-compeller, this horrible George.

Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

But when the cloud-compeller, her bolts laid aside, resorted to tears, mutinous humanity had a right to feel aggrieved, and placed in a false and difficult position.

The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895

He called himself a cloud-compeller: "My gift is to create doubts; but they are no more than doubts."

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

And for the Gig, -- the Gig, -- it is fairly worn out, and such a cloud-compeller must mock that particular symbol no more.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838