tempest (n.)
- agitation
- blaze
- blizzard
- blow
- brouhaha
- burst
- chaos
- commotion
- convulsion
- cyclone
- disorder
- disruption
- disturbance
- equinoctial
- eruption
- explosion
- ferment
- fit
- flare-up
- gale
- gust
- hurricane
- irruption
- outbreak
- outburst
- paroxysm
- perturbation
- rainstorm
- riot
- seizure
- snowstorm
- spasm
- squall
- storm
- thunderstorm
- tornado
- tumult
- turbulence
- typhoon
- unrest
- upheaval
- uproar
- whirlwind
- windstorm
Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.
Tempest in a teapot.—Proverb.
How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged, arrows of light.
If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!
Large elements in order brought,
And tracts of calm from tempest made,
And world-wide fluctuation sway'd,
In vassal tides that follow'd thought.
