"Stormy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it may, it was this generally unsatisfactory state of affairs that accounted for the junior Nelson's presence in Wichita Falls at this time. He and Bell had spent a stormy forenoon together; he was in an irritable mood when, early in the afternoon, a card was brought into ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... ranging alongside. It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad. For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyage —beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville
... those blissful scenes. And when the rosy dawn next tinged the east, And morning's burst of song had waked the day, With staff and bowl he left the sacred tree— Where pilgrims, passing pathless mountain-heights, And desert sands, and ocean's stormy waves, From every nation, speaking every tongue, Should come in after-times to breathe their vows— Beginning on that day his pilgrimage Of five and forty years from place to place, Breaking the cruel chains of caste and creed, Teaching the law of ...
— The Dawn and the Day • Henry Thayer Niles
... Occasionally Winona would pluck up courage to relate news from her home letters, but of her school life and all her new impressions and interests she scarcely spoke at all. Judging from the children's correspondence the new governess at Highfield, after a stormy beginning, was making some impressions upon her ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... a party where the wine had not been spared, and the guests had but just separated, in a state of tolerable elevation. It was a drear and stormy autumn night. On reaching the door of my abode, I first became aware that I had forgotten the key. As I could not imagine that any one would be awake at this late hour,—for it now drew near twelve—and, besides, as I lived on the fourth story, I had humanity enough ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 390, September 19, 1829 • Various
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