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Stormy   /stˈɔrmi/   Listen
Stormy

adjective
(compar. stormier; superl. stormiest)
1.
(especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion.  "Wide and stormy seas"
2.
Characterized by violent emotions or behavior.  Synonym: tempestuous.  "A stormy marriage"



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"Stormy" Quotes from Famous Books



... suffering from the after-glow of a stormy passage, crawled up the gangway and was once more on land. He carried in his ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 1, 1891 • Various
... that before the stormy weather came on, their little vessel should be employed in making a voyage round the island. A complete survey of the coast had not yet been made, and the colonists had but an imperfect idea of the shore ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne
... him. Guess it's too stormy for the old man," Harris replied dropping the mail bag into ...
— The Burglar and the Blizzard • Alice Duer Miller
... bareness and gloomy discomfort of the deck, especially on such a cold night, with suspicions of hail, and sleet, and snow at intervals. But, still, here also everything was not quite so rose-coloured as might have at first appeared; for stormy weather at sea discounts what might be called the market value of the comforts and conveniences of everyday life to a most ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... Perkins with the messenger in the next cabin was a long one, and apparently a stormy one on the part of the newcomer. Hurlstone could hear his excited foreign voice, shrill with the small vehemence of a shallow character; but there was no change in the slow, measured tones of the Senor. He listlessly began to turn over the papers on the table. Presently he paused. He had taken ...
— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte


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