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Tempest-tossed   /tˈɛmpəst-tɔst/   Listen
Tempest-tossed

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





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"Tempest-tossed" Quotes from Famous Books



... my heart was tempest-tossed, By care and pain oppressed; He whispered to my burdened heart, Come unto me ...
— Poems • Frances E. W. Harper
... goods advanced in price; The Governor missed his favorite spice; The Senoritas mourned for sandal And the famous cottons of Coromandel; And some for an absent lover lost, And one for a husband,—Dona Julia, Wife of the captain tempest-tossed, In circumstances so peculiar; Even the Fathers, unawares, Grumbled a little at their prayers; And all along the coast that year Votive candles ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte


Words linked to "Tempest-tossed" :   tempest-swept, troubled, tempest-tost


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