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tempest
«If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.»
Author: Pythagoras
| Keywords:
calm, depth, fluid, fluids, heat, height, prosperity, rough, smooth, soft, solid, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.»
«O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.»
«For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, / And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: / (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: / And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) / But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, / To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, / And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Abel, assembly, blackness, Church of, Church of the, firstborn, general assembly, innumerable, Jerusalem, mediator, Mount Sion, New Covenant, quake, quaked, quakes, quaking, Sion, sprinkling, stoned, tempest, The Mediator, The Mount, through with
«Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dispels, guesses, reporter, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two.(High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out.(O the walking is nasty bad!) --Armit Huff Bettle»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bad weather, barometer, Big Blue, descended, dreadful, fair weather, foul, high sea, huff, huffing, huffs, merrily, nasty, shout, tempest, tempests, The Big Blue, The Tempest, The Walking, tipsy
«My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
haven, havens, resting, rest home, retreat, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
glutton, gluttons, lust, surfeit, surfeiting, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
