| 单词 | storm-beaten |
| 例句 | Rainclouds over dark towers, rain falling in deep streets, a dark storm-beaten city of stone, through which one vein of gold winds slowly. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The prelude to the second act carries us from the storm-beaten coast of Norway to the domestic peace of Daland's home. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z "Their stout, crooked roots grip the storm-beaten ledges like eagle's claws, while their lithe, cord-like branches bend round completely, offering but slight holds for winds, however violent." The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z There was unusual commotion in the frontier mining town when the red stage, snow-covered and storm-beaten, lurched up in front of the Bella Union and began to disgorge passengers and mail. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z An owl, storm-beaten, drowns down the long mere. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z Hundreds were stranded and lost electricity because of the flooding, and in communities across the 13 storm-beaten states, much rescue and repair work still remains be done. Watch: Tropical Storm Irene Causes Deadly Floods in Vermont 2011-07-30T05:50:00Z With a blissful sense of burdens lifted off, Meg and Jo closed their weary eyes, and lay at rest, like storm-beaten boats, safe at anchor in a quiet harbor. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z Hither winds the stream, trout in every hover, and the brown hills rise on either side, barren and storm-beaten. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z The foaming barrier did not look encouraging to the storm-beaten beasts. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z A lonely rider was at this same hour of the night traversing the storm-beaten forest that lay below Marienberg. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z As upon the ledge of the storm-beaten bluff, he felt once more a woman's governing presence. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z Unless, of course, it had to do with that enduring image of the bird storm-beaten, weary of wing and bewildered by the dark, risking the debatable mercy of mankind in its stark necessity.... Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Yet they were below the crest of our lofty pinnacle, where our storm-beaten band of horses, steaming in moisture, stood darkly outlined against the pale mists. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z Yet, with all her pain, when she gazed out over the storm-beaten valley her old passion for nature asserted itself through her agony. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z The trio of storm-beaten girls hastened in out of the wind and rain; but when Belle and Sally would have followed, Mrs. Olliver stopped them firmly. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z As he walked along the harbour front his thoughts wandered back to the old storm-beaten mariner who had named himself Jacob Hartop. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z I picked up the storm-beaten creature and calmed it, and patched with the needle the skin of the window which it had broken by its entrance. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Then the Evening-star blew a deadly note upon his horn and a storm-beaten, russet, grizzly old woman came out and armed him in a quantity of dingy weapons. Tales from Tennyson 2011-03-19T02:00:10.793Z Here a wood of storm-beaten pines stood motionless in the white calm of the long winter sleep. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z So far from the madding crowd, so secret and so storm-beaten, it gave evil-doers a sense of security. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z He saw Richard standing at the open window with folded arms, dreamy and pale, his hair in disorder like a storm-beaten wheat-field--truly a painful sight for the father. The Progressionists, and Angela. I was the property of a poor fisherman, who lived in a hut belonging to a cluster of storm-beaten cots, called by great courtesy, the 'village' of Rocksand, in Devonshire. Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves None whatever; for, in truth, I was half flattered by the notion that the shattered, storm-beaten wreck, could be supposed sea-worthy, and so I promised amendment. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) Only a few storm-beaten adventurers approach the summit of the mountain. My First Summer in the Sierra Anxiously the mother heart was throbbing by his side, and the fond eyes sought the soldier's strong, storm-beaten face. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade Before them a wretched being sat upon the straw, and the hail dashed bitterly against her unshrinking, but time-worn and storm-beaten features. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III It abounds in the edges of the woods about Plymouth, as elsewhere, and must have been the first flower to salute the storm-beaten crew of the Mayflower on the conclusion of their first terrible winter. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings They had, by this time, gotten half way or more across the field, and they made a gallant effort to keep on, but torn and storm-beaten as they were, they could not stand. From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw How boundless the day seems as we revel in these storm-beaten sky gardens amid so vast a congregation of onlooking mountains! My First Summer in the Sierra I surveyed the whole angry surface of that slate-gray, storm-beaten sea, to the misty horizon. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 She saw guile on Mrs. Talcott's storm-beaten and immutable face; and she heard specious reassurance in her voice. Tante The dim outline of a second horse, the background of a wagon, a storm-beaten man––all this passed his eyes unheeded. Nan of Music Mountain Wild and storm-beaten was the scene on which we looked. The First Violin A Novel In the midst of what we regard as storm-beaten desolation he pipes and whistles right cheerily, and enjoys long life in his skyland homes. My First Summer in the Sierra When applied to concrete matters, it commonly signifies the overcoming of hindrance and difficulty; as, the storm-beaten ship at length attained the harbor. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Harriet and I got off the ponies the better to examine some of the storm-beaten trees. Wild Life on the Rockies Albert looked curiously at the old man beside him, whose rough garb and storm-beaten face gave so little evidence of the tender heart beneath, and a new feeling of trust and affection came to him. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast It was only gradually, as the tide goes out after a tempest, and leaves the storm-beaten coast in peace, that the worry in her head subsided. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The same causes have made the storm-beaten Englishman lord of India. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. He looked storm-beaten as he held his lantern up with a laugh. The Daughter of a Magnate In my haste I caught one of my webbed shoes on the top of a gnarly, storm-beaten tree that was buried and hidden in the snow. Wild Life on the Rockies These then were the characteristics of the sea which beat all round the wreck, and through which the half-dazed and storm-beaten sailors had to be dragged. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands And again and again have I loved to behold And fashion the storm-beaten letters anew, While lingering there as in summers of old, That spot—it is sweet, it is dear to me too! The Minstrel A Collection of Poems The boats were frail, the sea rough, and the storm-beaten coast of the bay was no great distance off. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada Hour after hour the storm-beaten party sat before a blazing fire in the cottage of the German peasant. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany On the face of the storm-beaten man in it each gleam of the lightning showed the pallid confession of mortal terror. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana "And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold" as Frobisher sailed his storm-beaten ship across the wintry seas. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The ship in which she sailed met at mid-sea a French vessel so dismantled and storm-beaten that it was in imminent risk of sinking, and its stock of provisions was almost exhausted. Mary Wollstonecraft It seemed so homelike, so shut away, so comforting, like a sheltered little backwater where a storm-beaten craft might lie snug. Fair Harbor All about the lake there are steep, rocky slopes, more or less completely covered with low arctic plants and stunted, storm-beaten hemlocks. The Western United States A Geographical Reader And the Brother obeyed; and on the third day the crane arrived, storm-beaten and weary, and three days later it departed. A Child's Book of Saints Then the fit gradually subsided, and they now wept in a less violent fashion, like the rainy calm that follows a squall on a storm-beaten sea. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. From a little, low, storm-beaten building comes the sound of a fog-horn. Vesty of the Basins Then came another man, but not a storm-beaten exhausted seaman. Menhardoc Give me our lofty cliffs, sun-scorched, storm-beaten, scarred and seamed by a thousand years of gloom and battle; and at their feet, firm-planted, the boundless infinity of the Atlantic! My New Curate Indeed the whole coast of Staffa is studded with caves, into some of which a boat can enter when the water is smooth, but this is not of very frequent occurrence on this storm-beaten coast. Chatterbox, 1905. Behind the house the dark, storm-beaten, distorted firs, and the solitary yew-tree blown all to one side, grew black with the damp. Cobwebs and Cables I wish that you would order a hat for me against I come home; the one I am wearing is very shabby, having been so frequently drenched with rain and storm-beaten. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends There, among the blossoming branches, clung the Dickey boy, like a little drenched, storm-beaten bird. Young Lucretia and Other Stories The rank and file of the crews were off on the hunting-grounds with the Indians; and the hunting-grounds of the sea-otter were the storm-beaten kelp beds of the rockiest coast in the world. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Babette departed with alacrity, and Grace sat down by the storm-beaten window. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel In a quarter of an hour the low cottage was reached, surrounded by a little belt of fields and a few storm-beaten fir-trees. Cobwebs and Cables And thus it happened that two storm-beaten soldiers presently shoved their way through Lanier's back gate and banged at the kitchen door. Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest "Those far-distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked," says Mahan, "stood between it and the dominion of the world." Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes The undulation of these infinite numbers of mountains, whose snowy summits make them look as if covered by foam, recalled to my remembrance the surface of a storm-beaten ocean. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Come while our voices are blended in song, Fly to our ark like the storm-beaten dove! The Story of the Hymns and Tunes As for our hero, though storm-beaten, stained with mud, and hungry as a wolf, he was still the same indomitable youth who had scaled the cut cliffs of Cobo in search of seagulls' eggs. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 There was also a strong effusion of stale dinners and storm-beaten woollen garments, but there was, after all, that savor of festivity which Ellen was apt to discover in the new. The Portion of Labor And, ah!—now she comes nearer—there are those sad lines about the mouth and eyes on which that sweet smile plays like sunbeams on the storm-beaten beauty of the full and ripened corn. Scenes of Clerical Life It is only the storm-beaten worthless wreck of a life; let it drift—on—on, down! Infelice A smile stole o'er his pale, storm-beaten face.— The Arctic Queen An eagle flew through the solitude and vultures screamed in the storm-beaten cedars. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross At noon he rested under the shade of an old storm-beaten tree, and ate his meagre lunch. Glen of the High North In the narrow passage, in which, removed from all sight and scrutiny, she hung droopingly, like a storm-beaten flower, upon his bosom, he solicited, and not unsuccessfully, a private and a parting interview. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia The scene is laid among the fisher-folk of a wild coast—presumably Brittany—where the passions of the inhabitants seem to rival the tempests of their storm-beaten shores in power and intensity. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. The swells of the Ring and the stars of the Turf Surged round like the waves of the storm-beaten surf. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892 Frost-locked, storm-beaten, and lonely, In the midst of the wintry main, Our bleak rock yet the tidings heard: "There shall be spring again!" McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader A wildness was in the air, swooping down with the breeze, buffeting in the little whirlwinds and eddies, rocking back and forth in the tops of the storm-beaten trees. The Silent Places As soon as the storm-beaten vessels could be brought to the shore, the Trojans hastened to land, and slaughtered some of the cattle, preparing a luxurious banquet. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) The omens were not favourable to this storm-beaten courage. John Redmond's Last Years His memory flashed for an instant upon those multi-coloured streets of Alexandria; and then, like a homing bird, it flew to the green woods and the storm-beaten coasts of his native Brittany. The Magician It is the same in the parody of Charlotte Brontë, which opens with a dream of a storm-beaten cliff, containing jewels and pelicans. Varied Types The snow had quite covered the ground, The wind whistled fiercely and chill, When a poor little storm-beaten bird Flew down on the broad window-sill. The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1875 He was groping in the dim border-land now, and in it he recognized his old partner with shadowy wonder; for delirium was past, with the other storms of a storm-beaten life. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Scarcely a quarter of a mile to the right, at the extremity of a broad hill-road, she saw the huge towers of Saracinesca, grey and storm-beaten, rising out of a thick wood. Saracinesca Of thy swift flights What of them all brings keenest joy to thee— To drive sharp pinions through storm-beaten nights, Or shriek amid black hollows of the sea? The California Birthday Book Then he picked her up as he would a babe, and she kissed his storm-beaten face. Pardners Then, again, the faint-hearts murmured in their storm-beaten tents against the horrors of the awful Straits. Elizabethan Sea Dogs Moreover, the wall acted as a sort of sounding board, catching up every odd noise from the storm-beaten plain beyond. The Night Horseman We therefore left Sullivan Cove on the morning of the 15th; and by the following midnight passed the above-mentioned storm-beaten headland with a fine northerly wind. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The adjacent coast had a singularly wild, bare, and storm-beaten appearance. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Their stiff, crooked roots grip the storm-beaten ledges like eagles' claws; while their lithe, cord-like branches bend round compliantly, offering but slight holds for winds, however violent. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice And now we find the Dart storm-beaten, but still water-tight, blown far out to sea. The Golden Canyon And to-day, also, I ordered from a nursery-man more trees of holly, juniper, and fir, since the storm-beaten cedars will have to come down. A Kentucky Cardinal The sea, still vexed and chafing from the breeze of yesterday, rolled in with solemn grandeur on the storm-beaten sides of the islands; each heaving swell carrying the ship nearer towards the almost fatal opening. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea Its western side is a sombre storm-beaten cliff, whilst to the east it slopes away almost to the water's edge. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. The next day we passed the naked and high dunes called Grand Sable, and the storm-beaten and impressive horizontal coat of the Pictured Rocks, and encamped at Grand Island, a distance of about 130 miles. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers A poor, storm-beaten, lonely waif, Lured southward from a colder clime By hope and that unfailing faith That health will come again in time! Poems With a blissful sense of burdens lifted off, Meg and Jo closed their weary eyes, and lay at rest, like storm-beaten boats safe at anchor in a quiet harbor. Little Women My mother's suffering and storm-beaten life was coming rapidly to its close, and I could think of nothing else. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 I well remember the sensations I experienced on first seeing a sail after an interval of nine months, and that wholly spent on the storm-beaten shores of South-western Tierra Del Fuego. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. He was storm-beaten by the labour and excitement of the preceding weeks, and these moments of rest in the Cathedral were sometimes all that enabled him to go through his day. The Case of Richard Meynell O'er thy ship's storm-beaten prow "Victory her wings will spread, "And, glorious, rest at last above a Trojan head. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse But then Some One had not realised the horrors of January and February at the storm-beaten head of the ever unquiet Adriatic. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I And the storm-beaten horseman sped Rain blinded and with bended head. Toward the Gulf Wet and storm-beaten and beautiful they were, with scarlet cheeks. Snow-Blind Love itself, once throned aloft on an altar of dreams, how it stole to her now, storm-beaten and scarred, pleading for the shelter of her breast! Sanctuary It grows in dense tufts in the clefts of storm-beaten rocks, high up on the mountain-side on the very edge of the fern line. The Yosemite But I—to bind a god, one of my kin, To a storm-beaten cliff, my heart abhors. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles He was on the point of speaking, but the fingers left his hair and stroked as gentle as velvet over his storm-beaten face. The Grizzly King When he reached the spot where the convent is last in view, he stopped and turned to gaze at the venerable and storm-beaten pile. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons During the tempest one cannot abandon the storm-beaten ship and cross over to a safer vessel. Peaceless Europe Some trees are mere storm-beaten stumps about as broad as long, decorated with a few leafy sprays, reminding one of the crumbling towers of old castles scantily draped with ivy. The Yosemite Their stiff, crooked roots grip the storm-beaten ledges like eagles' claws, while their lithe, cord-like branches bend round compliantly, offering but slight holds for winds, however violent. The Mountains of California He saw them stark and cold on the scorched grass beside the guns, or in the thin ridges of trampled corn, where the gay young tassels were now storm-beaten upon the ripped-up earth. The Battle Ground It was all that he would ever possess of Isobel Deane, and his breath came more quickly as he pressed it for a moment to his rough and storm-beaten face. Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail It has been like watching a ship with straining masts and storm-beaten sails, buffeted by the waves, making for the harbor, and coming at last to quiet anchorage. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Do you see the thin-haired, conical head of the viking Farragut, close by General Grant, with many naval heroes close behind, storm-beaten, and every inch Americans in thought and physiognomy? The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth One would experience but little difficulty in riding on horseback through the successive belts all the way up to the storm-beaten fringes of the icy peaks. The Mountains of California On reaching a plateau, before the final descent, they came across a wretched hovel, gray and storm-beaten, with scarcely strength to stand. Nature's Serial Story It can stand the lashings of the fiercest gales that visit our storm-beaten shore. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations But one covered carriage had remained on the storm-beaten pier, braving the rigors of this terrible night. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story He reached it as the twilight of the day was dissolving into the deeper dusk of the night, and put up his tent in the shelter of a clump of gnarled and storm-beaten spruce. The River's End Innumerable peaks and spires but little lower than its own storm-beaten crags rise in groups like forest-trees, in full view, segregated by cañons of tremendous depth and ruggedness. The Mountains of California They brought to her vivid fancy remote wild scenes, desolate waters, and storm-beaten rocks. Nature's Serial Story With the outside roar came the captain, his tarpaulins glistening with spray, his cap pulled tight down to his ears, his storm-beaten face ruddy with the dash and cut of the wind. The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women In his rough, storm-beaten hand he caught the white fingers that trembled at her breast. God's Country—And the Woman Altogether, she looked an utterly different being from the strange, storm-beaten creature who had craved their hospitality the night before. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn The Dwarf Pine, the tree-mountaineer that climbs highest and braves the coldest blasts, is found scattered in storm-beaten clumps from the summit of the pass about half-way down the cañon. The Mountains of California The thought of her youngest and darling son far off and alone among those cloud-capped and storm-beaten mountains was terrible to her. Nature's Serial Story In the inner room, beside his father's body, he was sitting, his mind busy with the tragic pathos of that grief-tortured, storm-beaten life. The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Fifty days more of it and, washed by icy seas, racked and storm-beaten, the vessel made Norfolk Sound. The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors On the eleventh of that month they came, storm-beaten and without Governor or Admiral or Sea Adventure, into "our Bay" and at last to "the King's River and Town." Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings A small lake nestles in the bottom of it, from which I got water for my tea, and a storm-beaten thicket near by furnished abundance of resiny fire-wood. The Mountains of California The rain had somewhat subdued his characteristic fluffiness, and he cowered with a kind of sleek storm-beaten despondency over the smoking fire of green wood before our tent. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales I had been reveling in a species of indulgence, imagining I was a great lover of nature, building poetical illusions over storm-beaten peaks. The Last of the Plainsmen "O God!" breathed the girl, her storm-beaten eyes held by the power of her captor's calmness. Other Things Being Equal Of the plains of Champagne and the snowy, storm-beaten but sublime Alps, what young man would choose the chalky, monotonous level? Honorine Under all conditions, sheltered or storm-beaten, well-fed or ill-fed, this tree is singularly graceful in habit. The Mountains of California When the rain came with it and dashed against the windows, I thought, raising my eyes to them as they rocked, that I might have fancied myself in a storm-beaten lighthouse. Great Expectations At any rate, there they are, looking as if some of them might be coeval with Noah, so venerable and storm-beaten do they appear. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales The storm-beaten house was certainly entitled to the respect accorded to age. Lavender and Old Lace A thick growth of bushes and old storm-beaten trees grew at intervals along its bank. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life |
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