tempest-tossed


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Adj.1.tempest-tossed - pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"
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The boys shouted at the plaintive tone in which Rose repeated the words that offended her, and Will vainly endeavoured to explain that he only meant to tell her to wrap her cloak closer, and tie a veil over the tempest-tossed feathers in her hat.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my beer beside the golden door!" If you've never heard this album do yourself a favor, look it up.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door!--Emma Lazarus
For such personal experience, we go to a different work, such as Gerard Windsor's The Tempest-Tossed Church (2017).
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" We also know from history that empires usually fall when they are corroded from within.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp besides the golden door" - these are the words which greeted the Welsh immigrants as they entered the United States.
Communication is also the burden of Clare Pastorius' aural meditation, He did not say, a rhythmic enunciation of God's assurance to Julian that however tempest-tossed and work-weary she might be, still 'You shall not be overcome'.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" The words 'tempest-tossed' have a new poignancy in a year in which 2,800 of the people who attempted to cross the Mediterranean are now described as dead or missing.
Saul's story remains one of the great human tragedies of the Old Testament because it describes a man undone, not by malicious intent like the Pharaoh who challenged Moses, but by his own weak mind and tempest-tossed heart.
When Thomas Hardy named his fourth novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" in 1874, he almost certainly meant the title ironically--a riposte to the notion that the rural folk of his beloved English countryside somehow led simpler lives, less tempest-tossed by desire, than did their urban counterparts.
Women ship-board disrupted this fraternal culture, and in the superstitious maritime world, a woman on a ship was a bad omen, capable of bringing about catastrophe--just as it was supposed witches on land could raise storms and sink ships-which is exactly what the witches in Macbeth do ("Though his bark cannot be lost, / Yet it shall be tempest-tossed").