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Storm-tossed   /stɔrm-tɔst/   Listen
Storm-tossed

adjective
1.
Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities.  Synonyms: buffeted, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost.






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"Storm-tossed" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself in the "spare room," on whose state he had rarely intruded when a boy. Jeff, the colored man, had kindled a cheery wood fire on the ample hearth, and, too exhausted even to think, Gregory sank back in a great easy-chair with the blessed sense of the storm-tossed ...
— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe

... our fathers in challenging the power of Great Britain was reasonable in comparison with the madness of the South's challenge to the North. Three thousand miles of storm-tossed ocean defended our Revolutionary ancestors from the base of the enemy supplies. Three thousand miles of undefended coast invited the attack of the U. S. Navy, while twenty million Northerners stood with their feet ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... up at the choir loft behind her when that wonderful voice sang alone. She looked up at the prisms instead, and as she looked it seemed to her that the voice was the voice of the white angel Hope, standing at the prow of a boat, its golden wings sweeping back, as storm-tossed but triumphant, it brought the vessel in at ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston

... storm-tossed Punjab the new Provincial Council made a better start than might have been expected from the temper of Lahore and the other large centres still brooding over the bitter memories of 1919. In the Punjab and in the neighbouring North-West Frontier Province, formerly ...
— India, Old and New • Sir Valentine Chirol

... whom we call well know With what a sea, like storm-tossed mariners, We battle; yet, if destiny be kind, From a small seed a mighty ...
— Specimens of Greek Tragedy - Aeschylus and Sophocles • Goldwin Smith



Words linked to "Storm-tossed" :   troubled, tempest-tossed



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