How To Use Tumult In A Sentence

Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
Rimna held his hands up for silence, not even trying to speak over the tumultuous noise.
In 1941 and 1942-by the sun and a blue sea that she sometimes seems literally to be drawing with, far from her family and the tumult of Berlin, humming as she worked - she painted 1,325 gouaches.
In this delegation of authority, the two principal factions which divided the tumultuary army had each taken care to send three of their own number. Old Mortality

The state defines unlawful assembly as a threat of ‘tumultuous disturbance of the peace.’
After a tumultuous turn of events, the general cast of the show is nailed down as the three end up shipless on one of the large continents.
Meanwhile many crowded to the spot, especially followers of Conrade and officers of the Stradiots, who, as they saw their leader lie gazing wildly on the sky, raised him up amid a tumultuary cry of “Cut the slave and his hound to pieces!” The Talisman
Ford responded by shouting back in what sounded like Latin and slowly, but noticeably, the tumult in the apartment decreased.
It's been a tumultuous day at the international trade negotiations in Brussels.
Hooting matatu taxis add to the confusion with their somewhat tumultuous chaos.
The world has been going through a tumultuous period since the dawn of the 1990s, with no sign of relief in sight.
Sting left the stage to a tumultuous round of applause and three of the Beatles took over, Paul being the surprising omission.
The talented actor, Jeremy Irons, rarely gets an opportunity to express his true histrionic skills in the tumults movie.
You couldn't hear her speak over the tumult from the screaming fans.
From every direction, people were running and shouting and falling over each other in a tumult of confusion.
Intensely narcissistic people often live tumultuous lives, as few people can tolerate them for long.
On a recent train journey a nearby couple had a comically tumultuous and very public break-up, which she duly live-tweeted in all its glory.
They waited for the tumult to die down.
Penn State placed assistant coach Mike McQueary on administrative leave, capping a tumultuous week in which his name surfaced as a... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Amid all the tumult and clamour of the teeming crowds who throng the premises, the hall stands dignified in its majestic splendour.
The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.
I was in great surprise at seeing the mouth of Unknown, so much surpassing in horror the jaws of upper Hell, I could hear a prodigious noise of arms, and loud discharges from one side, answered by what seemed to be hoarse thunders from the other; the rocks of Death, meanwhile, rebellowing the tumult. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
For this he received tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
Patriotism, hounded on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manege, all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side; nay chases them, collars them with loud menace: Deputy Vaublanc, and others of the like, are glad to take refuge in Guardhouses, and escape by the back window. The French Revolution
His effective rhetoric reassured a country unsettled by the tumults of the 1960s and 1970s and perceptions of American decline.
the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening
My arrival produced a sensation that stopped all this, and I was hurried by a kind of tumultuary welcome into the parlour. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
He called the tumultuous period since those attacks '' 19 months that changed the world, '' and said Mr. Hussein's defeat was a defeat for al-Qaeda and other terrorists as well .... Greg Mitchell: On 6th Anniversary of 'Mission Accomplished' -- How the Media Blew It
We know, however, that Beethoven had some poetic idea in his mind as he wrote this; but as he never gave the clew to the world, the music has been swallowed as 'absolute music' by the modern formalists "-- a comment which would apply almost word for word, with a change of names and titles, to a certain tumultuous and" unbeautiful "passage in MacDowell's" Lancelot and Elaine. Edward MacDowell
For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career. Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
Public service personnel have been through a tumultuous period. Times, Sunday Times
This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Les Miserables
A tumult of feelings inside her fought for supremacy.
Notably Mentz argues that the inscription is not an example of tachygraphy but rather an early attempt, during the tumultuous times surrounding the Pelepponesian War, to reform the Greek language.
The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
The town council in Aberdeen in 1731 felt it necessary to ban Andrew Ferguson, a piper, from playing at night, as this had the effect of raising "mobs and tumults in the streets". Ss Petri & Pauli
From here, the novel follows Vlad Dracula from his days as a young hostage at Sultan Murad's court in Edirne through his tumultuous career as a fugitive, a warlord Prince, a prisoner and a noble in the court of the king of Hungary. Archive 2009-03-01
They were given a tumultuous welcome by the defenders. Times, Sunday Times
In a labial dawn I savoured salty draughts of liquor springing from your tumid lips, luxuriated in a magnanimity your primal crouch expressed, heard half-suppressed love-cries tell the tumult in your loins. When I Close My Eyes (rev)
Jim Gibbons was tossed aside Tuesday -- the first incumbent governor in Nevada history to lose a nominating election after a tumultuous first term marred by a bitter divorce, allegations of infidelities and an abrasive style that alienated members of his own party. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
In these tumultuous times it is risky to make forecasts. The Sun
The demonstration broke up in tumult.
His predecessor was accorded an equally tumultuous welcome.
Mr Mandela was given a tumultuous reception in Washington.
The story delves into the lives of each teen as they are shaken from the remnants of their childhood and whisked into tumultuous lessons in adulthood and duty, as their respective countries prepare for war. Rabid Reads: "Leviathan" by Scott Westerfeld
Let us not be too hasty in pressing any opinion arising and divulged with odious consequences of sedition, turbulency, and the like, because tumults and troubles happen in the commonwealth where it is asserted. The Sermons of John Owen
They engaged in tempestuous weather; and the tumultuary conflict was continued from the dawn to the extinction of light. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult. NIGHT SISTERS
This week's theme is songs that articulate uncertainty, whether at a macro level (a world in tumult) or a micro one (a relationship breaking down). Readers recommend: songs about uncertainty
A middle-class tradeswoman with a printing press in her own home, her works chronicling the national events of a tumultuous period are a unique resource for the recovery of popular female involvement in early modern political culture.
In those tearful, tumultuous days following the death of Princess Diana, Bernie Taupin and Elton John rejigged Candle In The Wind (1997) to reflect the nation's grief – although, truth be told, the Fiver was never sure whether the line 'You were the grace that placed itself/Where lives were torn apart' referred to her affairs or something else entirely. Another humiliating defeat
Such transitions2 often excite mirth, or other sudden and tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. The Beautiful in Sounds
The river thundered below like a chorus of goblin voices, clamoring to snatch me away and bury me beneath the tumult of ice and rock, where no one would ever find me.
He was also Carl Crook, an Anglo-Canadian teenager, and the middle aged businessman he has become – still living in China – looks back on his tumultuous youth now with an air of vague bemusement.
Wodehouse remained completely aloof from the tumult of the world, unable to comprehend the cads, schemers and plotters.
But they also suggest that life is lived largely in the gaps in the fabric of the law that is stretched thinly over the tumultuousness of humanity. 'The Tangle Of Egos And Rules'
From every direction, people were running and shouting and falling over each other in a tumult of confusion.
Hooting matatu taxis add to the confusion with their somewhat tumultuous chaos.
The very conception of truth was a new one, as a goddess not to be shielded behind the shades of hierophantic mystery, but rather to be sought in the free tumult and joyous strife of many voices, there vindicating her own majesty and marking her own children. Voltaire
They are winds that put the mind in tumult, sweeping us along like ships in a gale, and as storms disturb the harmony of nature, passions are discordant and jangling.
If it had been incredible before it was more so now, this whirling tumult in her blood.
It was as if it had suddenly tasted peace and freedom after the tumult and congestion of Italy.
[Illustration] _Hic jacet ignotus mundo, mersusque tumultu Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
I could simply not be heard in the tumult.
The Musketeers' life in Paris was often tumultuous, even if strict discipline continued to reign back at the casern.
The gates of the city were thrown open, and the new emperor of the Romans, encompassed on every side by the Gothic arms, was conducted, in tumultuous procession, to the palace of Augustus and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Those servicemen, who marched around the ground, were given a tumultuous reception. Times, Sunday Times
In a moment, six lay dead on the burning dust; the seventh, who'd struggled against his bonds in the tumult, fell mortally wounded beside them.
At this the disaffected cohorts proclaimed the name of their lawful sovereign; the Barbarians, astonished by the defection of their Roman allies, dispersed, according to their custom, in tumultuary flight; and Mascezel obtained the of an easy, and almost bloodless, victory. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The show played to full houses for a five-night run and ended to tumultuous applause on Saturday night.
He has been no stranger to controversy and vitriol during a tumultuous political career.
Now, looking back on the past few tumultuous years, he can glean a glimmer of satisfaction from what he calls his ordeal by humiliation. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Bedford Rugby has had some quite tumultuous years.
His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives inat least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our ownbut before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. Why I Write
The tumult in the streets awakened everyone in the house.
More detailed inquiries took place in the 1940s after a period of tumultuous relationships and high - profile break-ups.
All that disadvantage which is befallen our nature by the entrance of sin is but in "the disorder of the affections and the inferior sensitive parts of the soul, which are apt to tumultuate and rebel against that pure untainted light which is in the mind! Pneumatologia
Tweed lied to Goody about his occupation, age and heritage on their first meeting, but the couple still entered a long-term tumultuous relationship. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
Ma'rius and Sulpi'cius, at the head of a tumultuary body of their partisans, attempted to oppose their entrance; and the citizens themselves, who feared the sackage of the place, threw down stones and tiles from the houses upon the intruders. Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquiti
The idea began in a place called Bandung, in Indonesia, in 1955 when a bloc of mostly African and Asian nations, often former colonies freed in the tumult that followed World War II met and announced to the world that they would be a force to be reckoned with. Crooks and Liars
Fu-ch'ai's surviving friends had indeed a very lively stimulus indeed-the fear of instant death-to drive them tumultuously over the seas; and doubtless, as they must have been perfectly harmless after tossing about hungry in open boats for weeks together, they would be as welcome to the Japanese king, or to the petty chief or chiefs who received the waifs, as in our own times was the honest sailor Will Adams when he drifted friendless to Japan, and whose statue now adorns a great Japanese city as that of a man who was, in a humble way, also a "civilizer" of Japan (600 A.D.). Ancient China Simplified
As every one who had an opinion to give was bawling it out at the very top of his voice, whilst those who had none contented themselves by shouting vague sentences devoid of particular meaning of any kind, the noise and tumult were such as beggared description. Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
The next chief of the armed forces is being chosen this weekend at the end of a tumultuous week. Times, Sunday Times
But throughout the days of his life, in the very act of his rude existence, this great tumultuous presence of the sea troubles and overbears him. Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1
There's tumult all around, everything rising from bayside landfill. Red Room: Victoria Zackheim: Rats in San Francisco?
The next chief of the armed forces is being chosen this weekend at the end of a tumultuous week. Times, Sunday Times
Developments after 1967 were complicated, tumultuous, and mostly unplanned.
The audience for the opening night booed so loudly and for so long that the conductor halted the production to allow the tumult to subside. Times, Sunday Times
The audience for the opening night booed so loudly and for so long that the conductor halted the production to allow the tumult to subside. Times, Sunday Times
Too often when the domestic tumult ceases, the nagging anxiety of work kicks back in. Times, Sunday Times
The party has always been tumultuous in personnel matters.
The demonstration broke up in tumult.
The band emerged from the tumult apparently unscathed.
There I learned to study the Bible and apply it to my very tumultuous life. Christianity Today
The last time that we saw this tumultuous interplay between anarchy and oligarchy was in the 18th century.
The next chief of the armed forces is being chosen this weekend at the end of a tumultuous week. Times, Sunday Times
Tumultuous come with teeming sweetness to the bitter shore tidelong unrinsed and midday parched and numb with expectation. Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The poetry of great minds has grown and been nurtured in the midst of life's mystic tumult and disorder.
As I enjoyed the quasi-fictional depiction of President Nixon's trip to China at the Metropolitan Opera, my mind wandered as to whether his excursion to foreign territory and his interest in accelerating America's ties with Asia also catalyzed his passivity towards the tumultuous transformations in his own country; just as President Clinton's premature overtures to China for expansive trade catalyzed income inequality at home in hopes of futural prosperity fueled by the prospects of global demand for American products from a growing and wealthier global consumer. Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed
She will never reach the age when the tumults of young adulthood can be looked back upon with rueful sympathy and without anger and vengefulness.
I do recall that last Christmas was colder and far less settled than this year, a more tumultuous season of ups and downs.
We passed out of the city by a gate where in a little coign of vantage a cobbler was thoughtfully hammering away in the tumult at Familiar Spanish Travels
the tumultuous years of his administration
It would be unfair to bring another person into the tumults of my existence.
Sir Richard, anxious not to arouse the hostility of the villagers, bought the pipe of wine from the winner, and, setting it abroach, allowed all who would to drink; and so, in a tumult of cheers and blessings, he rode away to keep his tryst. Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
Appalled by judicial activism, he advocated a classical, minimalist role for the court after the tumult of the 1960s.
Steam enthusiasts barely noticed the untumultuous tea party sized meeting which had gathered to show support for international superstar Robin Page and exchange reasons on why UKIP would be successful if only they were in charge. Archive 2009-02-01
I could simply not be heard in the tumult.
For Thailand, a medium-sized country - whose destiny is closely tied up with the global economy and liberal democracy - drifting along rudderless in the tumultuous current of world events is not an option.
One reason people were so stirred by her passing was because she had experienced so many of the tumults of the twentieth century.
The first who would excite a tumult is empaled; and all is tranquil. A Philosophical Dictionary
Their cavalry and chariots of war filled the interjacent field with great tumult and boundings to and fro. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
While meteorology is a science complicated by chaotic weather patterns, statistics on the tumultuous developments illustrate a definite trend in the past decades.
Superficially he might seem almost a name culled at random from the list of leading political celebrities in France, but in fact he was useful because he made the very specific connection with the tumultuous and dangerous world of European federalism. The Sion Revelation
Although his original drive was to make money, he also wanted to escape his tumultuous life. Times, Sunday Times
He is standing to the side once again on this day, an understudy in this tumultuous theatre.
The crowd rushed, bearing forward and shouldering each other, out of the Court, in the same tumultuary mode in which they had entered; and, in excitation of animal motion and animal spirits, soon forgot whatever they had felt as impressive in the scene which they had witnessed. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
There I learned to study the Bible and apply it to my very tumultuous life. Christianity Today
Brown has kept the tumult at bay.
Finally, lording over the tumult is the third major actor in the drama, the Roman proconsul Heraclius, who directs the route of the procession from his mount in the exact center of the canvas.
In such surprisals of sin, although the affections may be ensnared, and the judgment and conscience by their tumultuating dethroned for a season, yet the will still maketh head against sin in believers, and crieth out that, whether it will or no, it is captived and violently overborne, calling for relief like a man surprised by an enemy. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Her spoon was gone; that was beyond question, and Daisy's little spirit was in tumultuous disturbance – very uncommon indeed with her. Melbourne House
As a result of our tumultuousness, there abides in the American psyche an idea so powerful it ennobles us, and lifts us high above the problems which beset us.
Too often when the domestic tumult ceases, the nagging anxiety of work kicks back in. Times, Sunday Times
The Betrayal of Christ (National Gallery, Dublin) is set in darkness tumultuous with the flicker of flambeaux on steel.
Sixty years ago these streets were full of the tumult and clatter of life.
But our friendship was deep: he needed help with homework and someone to listen to his tumultuous life; I was a wide-eyed A-student who wanted to right the world, one boy at a time. Ginger Emas: Are You Still Dating Your Ex?
William and Ffion enter Downing Street to tumultuous Tory applause and waving of union flags.
Has she helped him stabilise his once tumultuous personal life? Times, Sunday Times
Public service personnel have been through a tumultuous period. Times, Sunday Times
For this he received tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
Spawned during one of the most tumultuous eras in history, Coltrane's ideas were reflective of a period in which the foundations of American life trembled to the core.
I went out in my rochet and camail, dealing out benedictions to the people on my right and left, preaching obedience, exerting all my endeavours to appease the tumult, and telling them the Queen had assured me that, provided they would disperse, she would restore Broussel. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
The occasional glimpses of the tumultuous moment - shooting of a Vietnamese in the street, dying U.S. soldiers, presidents pontificating - are gestures to headlines of the times.
Attorney Vincent Romano, who represents Porcelli hopes that Buoneto recorded the intense discussion that he had with his client in August, on the last day of what the lawyer described as a tumultuous and terrifying two-week ordeal for Porcelli, who has a 19-year-long history of anxiety and depression, according to the attorney. Jerry Capeci: Feds Went Down Low to Make Mob Sex-Trafficking Case
With no dramatic surprises of fortune, and no great sorrows, his life had scarce any other alternation than that it went round with the earth through night and day, and would have been tame but for his necessary labor in an art which he loved wisely and with the untumultuous sentiment of an after-honey-moon constancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
THE clouds were gathering fast -- the waters were troubled -- and the approaching tumult and disquiet of all things in Carolina, clearly indicated the coming of that strife, so soon to overcast the scene -- so long to keep it darkened -- so deeply to impurple it with blood. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
1968 was a tumultuous year, not only within the film industry but throughout the world, as social protests and political movements shook the Establishment.
He sat down to tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
It follows four buddies, Asian-American high school students in Southern California who get caught up in a tumultuous rush of drugs, crime, and violence.
The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebular in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems. Chapter 35
He earned this position with his concise, forceful prose as well astumultuous, often newsworthy lifestyle.
The fremitus maris is that which this word doth express, the tumultuation of the sea, as tossed by violent winds. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
Now, these being men of the world, and being fallen into days of notable temptations, no wonder if their lusts work and tumultuate, and that to purpose. The Sermons of John Owen
Instead of being in an Oriental amphitheatre, he was standing in a rural lane; instead of tumult he found tranquillity; instead of regal pageantries an almost primitive simplicity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
It was about four in the morning, the heavenliest moment of a summer dawn, and in spite of the tumult Cassel still apparently slept. Fighting France
Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people… broken, tumultuous, agonised and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by death, by agonies?
I lived a rather tumultuous life targeting for money power wealth authority status name fame and whatnot.
Jane rises early the next morning to the sound of a bell before dawn; all the girls assemble in the schoolroom and form classes in a hurried tumult.
Janet and William Norwood, the young man's parents, were also seated in the gallery and stood up to tumultuous and prolonged applause.
A tumult of questions assailed the little linguister. The Frontiersmen
Given the tumultuousness in many parts of America's foreign policy portfolio, it's easy to nitpick and criticize (which I do frequently), but I have to tip my hat to President Obama's measured and positive comments today following the conclusion of what are officially called the P5+1 Negotiations with Iran. Steve Clemons: President Obama's Body Language on Iran Is Just Right
Qui postquam in aedes irrupere, diversi regem quaerere, dormientes alios, alios occursantes interficere, scrutari loca abdita, clausa effringere, strepitu et tumultu omnia miscere; quum [72] interim Hiempsal reperitur occultans sese tugurio mulieris ancillae, quo initio pavidus et ignarus loci perfugerat. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
No. There is a volume of smoke, as if the chimney were in flame -- a tumultuous cloud pours aloft, straggling and broken, through the broad slate stones that defend the mouth of the vomitory from every blast. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
Outside the throng was a carriage, stopp'd for a minute by this tumult, and a servant at the horses 'heads. The Splendid Spur
His subjects were impatient of the long continuance of his life and reign: yet all who were capable of reflection apprehended the moment of his death, which might involve the capital in tumult, and the empire in civil war. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Hearst was the media magnate whose tumultuous life was parodied in the 1941 movie, Citizen Kane.
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, "vox populi vox dei", quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. Latin Quotations | Impact Lab
Plus, of course, tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Mandela was given a tumultuous reception in Washington.
_Shame_ -- to confess his folly; and yet a sullen desire, to be reconciled and better advised for the future! what tragedy ever showed us such a tumult of passions rising at once in one bosom! or what buskined hero standing under the load of them, could have more effectually moved his spectators, by the most pathetic speech, than poor miserable Nokes did, by this silent eloquence, and piteous plight of his features? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
The tumult subsided only after the city's notables began to mediate between the two sides; as a final victory, the official was forced to offer a public apology.
The lusts of men do commonly, under such dispensations, fearfully and desperately tumultuate, to the disturbance of the most settled and weighed spirits. The Sermons of John Owen
It is a sign of the times, of our tumultuous, dizzying culture of metaphysical angst.
Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult. NIGHT SISTERS
And he repeated to the King the tale of how he would have followed the Religious, but he forbade him, whereupon the folk broke out into a tumult of weeping and lamentation and humbled themselves before Him who is ever near, Him who ever answereth prayer, supplicating that He would cause the false Devotee who denied The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The public response is tumultuous, both at the landing ground and at the small maidan where the meeting is in progress.
And scarcely had Grumbates, like a Roman fecial, hurled at us a spear stained with blood, according to his native fashion, than the whole army, rattling their arms, mounted up to the walls, and instantly the tumult of war grew fierce, while all the squadrons hastened with speed and alacrity to the attack, and our men on their side opposed them with equal fierceness and resolution. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
At that check, the authors of these tumultuary measures fell to accusing the generals, as if they had marred the proceeding; and the Arcadians and Archaeans banded together, chiefly under the auspices of the two ringleaders, Callimachus the Parrhasian and Anabasis
A tumult of shouting and screaming came from within the house.
People were not aware of them in the tumultuous period during the election campaign.
A tumultuous round of applause concluded the excited movement and all were treated to refreshments, much enjoyed by all.
Capitol itself and it will make its way eventually to the Rotunda -- but a lot of people, Tom De Frank, as we review the Ford presidency don't necessarily recall the tumultuousness of the U.S. foreign policy crises that were still unfolding then. CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2006
Tumults were spreading throughout the kingdom, from the disembodying of the militia, and the discharge of seamen and sailors without pay; the treaty with France and Spain was not ratified; no commercial alliance was adjusted with The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
I say, then, that the first thing in mortification is the weakening of this habit, that it shall not impel and tumultuate as formerly; that it shall not entice and draw aside; that it shall not disquiet and perplex the killing of its life, vigour, promptness, and readiness to be stirring. Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
The clamour of Harlequin, who was covered with glass, papier-machee, lamps and oil, the screams of the ladies, the universal buz of tongues, and the struggle between the frighted crowd which was enclosed to get out, and the curious crowd from the other apartments to get in, occasioned a disturbance and tumult equally noisy and confused. Cecilia
Even the grass nodding in the wind lent a thin voice to the chorus, a voice such as only the sharp and sea-trained ear may comprehend, that beasts hear long before the wind itself is apparent, so that they remove themselves to the bieldy sides of the hills before tumult breaks. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
During the political tumult of these years there was no better time for ambitious men to seize position, wealth and honours. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
I heard Thy voice behind me, calling to me to return, and scarcely heard it, through the tumultuousness of the enemies of peace. The Confessions
He was re-elected four times during one of the most tumultuous periods of the 20th century. Times, Sunday Times
Their literature, in short, however overcoloured it may have been, did represent a generally prevailing characteristic among men of excessive sensibility at a time of stir and tumult in the world around them; it was not a mere unnatural invention, though we must leave to the psychologist the task of tracing a connection between this mental attitude and the circumstances that generated it. Studies in Literature and History
Plus, of course, tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
The "olive" is chosen to represent the adoption of Judah by the free grace of God, as its oil is the image of richness (compare Ps 23: 5; 104: 15). with ... noise of ... tumult -- or, "at the noise," &c., namely, at the tumult of the invading army (Isa 13: 4) [Maurer]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
/I hope your electioneering riotry (394) has not, nor will mix in these tumults. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
We look with prophetic eyes over all the tumult, and see in the distance the radiant form of Liberty, bearing in her left hand the olive branch and in her right hand the sword, the holy victress, destined by treaty or conquest to bring the whole world under her sway. Prisoner for Blasphemy
When tumultuous events rocked the world he soon forgot her.
The tumult of Saipan is long since forgotten; while opinions in Ireland may still be divided, the issue has long since been purged from consciousness here.
Such19 transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. On the Sublime and Beautiful
They shall be dashed in pieces one against another (v. 13): A great tumult from the Lord shall be among them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
He comments on being weighed down ‘with the burdens of pastoral care’ and ‘great tumultuous uproars in secular affairs’.
In 1929, after approaching him for mentorship, Frida Kahlo married another Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, but while he encouraged her art, their marriage was fairly tumultuous, as both had hot tempers and engaged in extramarital affairs. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Inspiring Women: Frida Kahlo
Amir Khan enters the ring to tumultuous applause from the massed British supporters.
the crowd was demonstrating tumultuously
The Sonics have had one of their most tumultuous seasons in recent memory, including a coaching and ownership change.
The audience for the opening night booed so loudly and for so long that the conductor halted the production to allow the tumult to subside. Times, Sunday Times
The deal would resolve all criminal and civil penalties and draw a line under the most tumultuous period in the company's history. Times, Sunday Times
The tumults of the past few years are beginning to push growing numbers of young people away.
These players were the real heroes on the night as they received a tumultuous applause from the attendance.
Tincture of strophanthus, in 2-dram doses, will quiet the tumultuous action of the heart in some cases where the digitalis fails. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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