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Meanings of tempest-swept in English

Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities.

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        Since October, the royal family has been buffeted by crisis after crisis.
        News.com.au
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        Modi, meanwhile, is being buffeted by a jobs crisis and farm distress.
        Reuters
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        People swore at him; they got in his way; they buffeted him.
        Neverwhere
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        Severe winds buffeted the state on Thursday, bringing down powerlines and trees.
        News.com.au
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        Focus is difficult when we are buffeted by competing desires to help.
        The Power of Giving
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        They encountered vile weather and tempest-tossed seas off the South American coast.
        Wired
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        He fancied in his troubled dreams that he saw their ship tempest-tossed.
        The Voyages of the "Ranger" and "Crusader" / And what befell the...
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        Come along, Poor Mercantile Jack, and be tempest-tossed till you are drowned!'
        The Uncommercial Traveller
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        The view to the southward resembled a tempest-tossed ocean suddenly frozen.
        A Man's Woman
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        Why be troubled and tempest-tossed when the haven of Peace of God is yours!
        The Way of Peace
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        Quietly he took his stand by the side of the storm-tossed vessel.
        The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3
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        We were three storm-tossed days afloat before the helicopter picked us up.
        The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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        It begins with a grand, terrifying funeral march, and a storm-tossed scherzo.
        Radio NZ
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        Maria Theresa felt that her heart was all too storm-tossed for prayer.
        Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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        What a Canaan those weary, storm-tossed colonists must have thought it all!
        Virginia: the Old Dominion / As seen from its colonial waterway,...
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        The flowers at its feet bowed their heads, while the winds wafted their fragrance over the struggling, tempest-tost tree.
        Allegories of Life
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        She was seen standing into the mouth of the Seine, shattered and crippled, bearing marks of having been sadly tempest-tost.
        Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
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        Divine moment, when over the tempest-tost Soul, as once over the wild-weltering Chaos, it is spoken: Let there be Light!
        Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
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        The soldier, tempest-tost, hears it through the creaking cordage, and every true heart knows its brother, and takes up the magnificent strain,-victorious ,triumphant ,exultant,
        Gala-Days