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Meanings of tempest-tossed in English

Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities.

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Usage of tempest-tossed in English
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They encountered vile weather and tempest-tossed seas off the South American coast.
Wired
2
He fancied in his troubled dreams that he saw their ship tempest-tossed.
The Voyages of the "Ranger" and "Crusader" / And what befell the...
3
Come along, Poor Mercantile Jack, and be tempest-tossed till you are drowned!'
The Uncommercial Traveller
4
The view to the southward resembled a tempest-tossed ocean suddenly frozen.
A Man's Woman
5
Why be troubled and tempest-tossed when the haven of Peace of God is yours!
The Way of Peace
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I heard a song of deepest passion surging like the tempest-tossed waves of the sea.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales / "The fiddle and the bow," "The paradi...
7
The gallant Somers was doomed again to be tempest-tossed.
Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies
8
We were tempest-tossed and storm-torn, as the poets say.
The Great Book of Amber
9
Jan. 15-What a tempest-tossed creature this birthday finds me.
Stepping Heavenward
10
Kossuth called himself "a tempest-tossed soul, whose eyes have been sharpened by affliction."
Pushing to the Front
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He was like a ship that had been driven hither and thither, tempest-tossed and in danger.
Barriers Burned Away
12
The tempest-tossed, sinful man lay listening to them for a minute or two, half asleep yet.
Cobwebs and Cables
13
Instead there were only the tempest-tossed woodlands below.
Nevermore
14
Ah, yes; weary as the lonely mariner, tempest-tossed on some pathless ocean, without chart or compass.
Beulah
15
When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder!
The Last Man
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Earth and sand were pouring through this fissure, at the bottom of which surged the tempest-tossed waves
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
Tempest-tossed through the time