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Sentences ending with tumult

In her heart was fierce tumult. [11]
In those days, the sea too often 'wrought and was tempestuous,' and weed, sand, shingle--all turned up in the tumult. [14]
Then one of the lions was pierced by a lance, and sank with a dying roar of rage and pain that was heard above all the tumult. [10]
Loud music now struck up, he heard shouts and cheers, and just above him--for it could only proceed from the uppermost tiers--there was an extraordinary tumult. [10]
A score of members crowded into the aisles, but the Speaker's voice again rose above the tumult. [9]
Her mind was in tumult. [11]
Again Darius remained calm and quiet in the midst of the tumult. [10]
What a stress and tumult! [10]

Short sentences using tumult

And the tumult below? [10]

Sentences containing tumult two or more times

What tumult was in his breast, or whether there was any tumult, Cynthia knew not. [9]

More example sentences with the word tumult in them

And yet and yet against the tumult and beating of this passion striving to throb down thought, thought strove. [9]
Her heart beat with tumult, and again seemed to stop. [9]
They both listened with such tension that the veins in their foreheads swelled; but from the tablinum, which was hardly thirty paces from them, came only very faint and intermittent sounds, indistinct in character and drowned by the tumult without. [10]
She had seen with her own eyes the tumult that was rife in Alexandria, and felt that they had arrived at an inauspicious moment. [10]
His beloved dead, who in the tumult of carnival mirth had vanished from his memory, again rose before his mind, among them the doctor, who gazed rebukingly at him with his clear, thoughtful eyes. [10]
What actually occurred when the tumult in the court room had subsided the sagacious reader will now learn. [5]
More than once, when the President could not hear him because of the general tumult, he sent persons to listen and report as to whether the orator was speaking to the subject or not. [5]
Mingling with these were the angry outcries of those whom the lictors or guardians of the peace had laid hands on, or their indignant companions; and the thunder outside rolled a solemn accompaniment to the mutinous tumult within. [10]
But their prayers were brief, for the tumult came nearer and nearer; Apollodorus wrung his hands, and struck his fist against his forehead; his movements were violent--spasmodic. [10]
Here they could watch unseen the tumult in the square below, for it was surrounded by dense laurel bushes. [10]
How strange it was that in conquest the tumult of my being should be stilled, that my passion should be transmuted into awe that thrilled yet disquieted! [9]
Her lover henceforth was no longer her enemy; and as the tumult of the struggle by the breach fell on her ear, she could think with joy of his victorious arms. [10]
Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
Of course, there was a tumult on board, and my mother heard cries of "Fallen into the river! [10]
That afternoon there was a great tumult in Rouen, and excited crowds were flocking through all the chief streets, chattering and seeking for news; for a report had gone abroad that Joan of Arc was sick until death. [5]
The tumult was very great, indeed, for a while. [5]
Then he tore up the paper, on which he had been scribbling, into very small bits, consulted a time-table, and at noon, in a tumult of feelings, he found himself in a back seat of the express, bound for the capital. [9]
Surely the little tumult would pass; surely the little whisper of worldliness could not disturb her ideals. [4]
The clang and tumult were still going on, and the remorseless fires were burning fiercely as before; for few changes of night and day brought rest or quiet there. [12]
At last the tumult was so great that the whip-bearers were insufficient to cope with it, and a detachment of the body-guard was sent to patrol the streets. [10]
Amid the pleasant tumult the three entered the hotel together, like people in a play. [11]
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
In the terrible tumult of her heart she had forgotten to eat or to drink since early morning, and at last, in the afternoon, some one knocked at the door, and the landlady called her. [10]
What a wild tumult is raging here behind my brow, and how one voice drowns another! [10]
Here all was tumult and confusion; the streets were filled with throngs of people--many strangers were there, it seemed, by the looks they cast about--the church-bells rang out their noisy peals, and flags streamed from windows and house-tops. [12]
And now the tumult and clang of arms grew louder and louder, and the rattle of drums and blare of trumpets began to mingle with the sound. [10]
It was not till the sick-nurse came back that the tumult was appeased; for, as soon as she learned how seriously the loud disputes of her fellow-believers were disturbing the sick man's rest, she interfered so effectually, that the house was as silent as before. [10]
In this dense throng and deafening tumult it was scarcely possible to recover that collected calm which she had found in the morning at her mother's tomb. [10]
Her features disordered themselves slightly at times in a surface-smile, but never broke loose from their corners and indulged in the riotous tumult of a laugh,--which, I take it, is the mob-law of the features;--and propriety the magistrate who reads the riot-act. [6]
Why she was the wife of Alexander the Great, and is long since dead, but I care only for the living, and when I left the merry tumult in the streets it was simply and solely--" "You excite my curiosity. [10]
He set down the water, pushed his way through the group into the hall, where the tumult and the shouting die. [9]
I could divine the tumult of his feelings; but he mastered them, and entered. [4]
For some moments the tumult lasted, Eglington looking on with face unmoved. [11]
He little guessed the tumult in her breast. [9]
The music in the towers might have ceased, so completely was it drowned by the tumult in the amphitheatre. [10]
The tumult of the place had died down, for men were gathering in the houses to discuss and conjecture. [9]
The uproar among the heathen grew louder and louder; fragments of stone and wood came flying towards the spot where the Bishop and officials were standing; but, suddenly, the tumult ceased, and, as if by a miracle, there was silence--perfect silence--in the temple. [10]
For an instant the golden valley swam before his eyes, and the walls waved, and all about him whirled with tumult within. [13]
Her breath, in the first tumult of her thought, came and went deeply. [9]
Now, as the sun was about to set, the latter gave herself up to a wild tumult of sweet memories, anxious fears, and yearning expectation. [10]
Apostles and martyrs soared around, the Saviour sat enthroned in glory and triumph, while angels, cradled on the clouds that were his footstool, were singing beatific hymns which sounded clearly in her ear above the many-voiced tumult of the quays. [10]
He has already sent Philotas--his pupil, who finds and unrolls his books--a dozen times to inquire the cause of the tumult outside; but I replied that the crowds were flocking to the harbour on account of the Queen. [10]
A jeering laugh seemed the only fitting answer to such a surprise, but Miriam's grave face helped him to repress it and conceal the tumult of his soul by trivial words. [10]
The thought of seeing Edith created a tumult in his mind. [4]
All these questions roused a tumult of unprecedented violence in her young, ardent, inexperienced soul, which was renewed each successive night. [10]
Unafraid, his heart rent with pity, he walked unharmed amid such tumult as I have rarely seen. [9]
Outside the house, quietness had given place to murmuring, murmuring to a noise, and a noise to a tumult, through which the yelping and howling of the village dogs streamed. [11]
The wild tumult penetrates even into this room which is so far from the street, and your sons take delight in the disorders of the heathen! [10]
Ledscha again gazed over the calm landscape, but in the wild tumult of her heart she no longer distinguished the details upon which her eyes rested. [10]
And yet Antwerp ought to have rest: she has had tumult enough in her time. [4]
Not more than one or two minutes could have passed before the frightful tumult and all its sounding echoes had ceased. [6]
The abbot looked on at the tumult kindly, and bright tear-drops ran down into the old count's beard, for his heart was easily touched. [10]
There were none of the frenzied monks who had terrified her in the Xenodochium and in the streets; on this day of tumult and anxiety they are devoting all their small strength and great enthusiasm to the service of the Church militant. [10]
During the tumult of the Dionysiac festival you are reported to have carried on as grave a discussion as any two gray-bearded philosophers walking in the Stoa among attentive students. [10]
All his peace of mind had deserted him, his soul was in a tumult, and he could not succeed in obtaining any calm and clear control over the new life-pulses which were throbbing in his heart. [10]
The quiet force of his presence stilled the tumult in her, so that her eyes could see without mist, her heart beat without agony; but every pulse in her was throbbing, every instinct was alive. [11]
In a tumult of emotions she answered him hurriedly. [11]
The stream was now swollen, and rushed in a deep and rapid current over the ledges, through the rocky straits, plunging at last in tumult and foam, with loud, continuous roar, into the depths below the cliff from which it tumbled. [6]
As Kuni did not instantly assent, because the wild tumult of her blood paralyzed her tongue, he noticed her confusion, and in an encouraging tone, gaily continued: "What I have to ask is not too difficult. [10]
Mr. Tooting had not exaggerated the tumult and affright at the Pelican Hotel. [9]
My heart beat no faster, there was no tumult in my brain, and yet--my breath caught strangely. [9]
When they drew near to the paraschites' hovel, he perceived the tumult among the people, and, loud above all the noise, heard Uarda's shrill cry of terror. [10]
The tumult in my heart and brain and legs continued a full minute before I could gain any command over myself. [5]
Meanwhile both the men whom they concerned were surrounded by the tumult of battle. [10]
Gradually, from this long-range practice with single guns and exchange of broadsides, they drifted into closer conflict, rushed together, and we lost sight of the individual combatants in the general tumult of this aerial war. [4]
But who that lives in the tumult of the world can ever succeed in 'killing himself' in their sense of the word, in dying while yet he lives, to be born again, a new man? [10]
Or did the lad cling to his kindred, and was it wrath and resentment at hearing them so bitterly reviled which made his color vary from red to pale and roused such a tumult in his soul that he was scarcely capable of speech? [10]
It was a joyous tumult in jocund spring! [10]
Thus the crowd in the streets was lessened, order appeared amid the tumult, and when, in the dawn of morning, Adrian turned his steps towards home, there was little more bustle in the streets than on ordinary nights. [10]
One could detect in the lapse of the waves along the shore the note of weariness preceding the change into the fretfulness and the tumult of tempests. [4]
He is there in the clouds, in the tempests, where the lightnings play, and thunders leap, amid the elemental tumult, in the occasional great calm and silence and the pale sunlight. [4]
And I followed in a tumult of mortification and wounded pride, in such a state of dejection that I wished I had never been born. [9]
All the circling horizon was piled high with a mighty tumult of snowy crests. [5]
It seemed to her when she stopped to listen for the first guns of the coming battle that the tumult in her heart would drown their roar. [9]
The calmness of her soul was at an end, and not for all the kingdoms Charles possessed would she have exchanged the tumult and turmoil in her breast for the peace which she had enjoyed yesterday. [10]
It would ease her pain, it said; it would still the tumult and the storm; it would solve her problem, it would give her peace. [11]
Though waves of heat caused by some sudden recollection or impatient longing still ran through my body, a saner joy of anticipation was succeeding emotional tumult, and I reflected that Nancy had been right in insisting that we walk circumspectly in spite of passion. [9]
Meanwhile the woman had not changed her position, but closely watched the tumult which she herself had roused. [11]
At this her face was convulsed in a manner that alarmed the bishop; a fearful tumult raged in her soul, her bosom rose and fell spasmodically, and all she could utter was the question: "But they will sacrifice her all the same? [10]
The tumult and excitement were unparalleled; but Dada saw and heard nothing. [10]
It would be easier for me to sleep in a falling house than with such a tumult in my heart. [10]
Now the tumult died away for a few minutes, and Barbara felt as though her heart stood still, for the two stately men on splendid chargers who now, after a considerable interval, followed them, were the royal brothers, the Emperor Charles and King Ferdinand. [10]
While you could count five seconds the audience sat silent, and then began such tumult and applause as had never been seen in Brampton--all started, so it is said, by an old soldier in the front row with his stick. [9]
Peace seemed to come upon them both, quieting the tumult in their hearts, and giving them back their reason. [9]
But when he asked himself whether indeed he were willing to pay such a price, to face the revolution marriage--and this marriage in particular--would mean in his life, the tumult in his blood beat down his incipient anxieties. [9]
Amazement, horror, deadly anger, were all there, but, after a moment, the will behind the tumult commanded it, the wild light died away, and he stood calm and still awaiting them. [11]
In the swirl and tumult of the hotel lobby I ran across Mr. Daly's comedian, the late James Lewis, of beloved memory, and I casually mentioned that I was going to call upon Mr. Daly in the evening at 8. [5]
Yes, Cynthia guessed; and she could not read that evening because of the tumult of her thoughts. [9]
It was wrath and impatience, mingled with bitter disappointment, that roused the tumult in his soul, not merely the dread of torture and death. [10]
For Valmond had an instant's madness, and only saved himself from the tumult in his blood by getting to his feet, with strenuous resolution. [11]
Its shrill tones acted like magic on the eager crowd; the raised hands fell in a moment, the little tripping feet stood still, the opening lips closed and the eager tumult was turned into a dead silence. [10]
Margaret waited in a tumult of emotion. [4]
Tumult, anxiety, conflict, a perpetual alternation of hard work and excessive fatigue, this was his life, the life he had summoned her to share at his side, without even showing any desire to afford her a part in his cares and labors. [10]

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